After fifteen minutes, you’ve finally talked yourself into braving the cold and going to class.

You know the weather in DeKalb is rivaling that of Siberia, but you feel obligated to be a good student.

So, you bundle up in eight layers of clothing and make the trek. You’ve just about lost feeling in your eyelids when you reach your classroom building. Your nostrils are regaining function when you reach your classroom.

But there’s something on the door: Class is cancelled.

As if skipping class wasn’t tempting enough in cold weather, professors are making it even harder to make it out to class because students don’t know if class will be in session when they get there.

Obviously, when the weather gets this cold, problems can arise. Cars don’t start and often alarm clocks just seem not to go off.

But if a professor is not going to hold a class due to the weather, the least they can do is contact their students so that they don’t have to brave the weather.

It completely defeats the purpose of having students walk across campus in the cold to find out that class was cancelled because of what they just walked through.

No student wants to walk through the kind of cold that has hit the Midwest, and they especially don’t want to do it twice for no reason.

When students first get accepted to NIU they get a student email address that teachers have access to.

And it sure would be nice if teachers used those for class updates that actually matter.