Many students including Junior Lily Foster, Junior Stefani Dono, and Senior Angela Simmons love to spend some of their time in the winter on the slopes, skiing. Others also like to spend their time on the slopes, snowboarding like math teacher, Mr. Maxwell Giuard.
“I Snowboard and I prefer winter activities more (than other seasons) to be honest,” said Giorard
As winter approaches, starting in less than a month, many students and teachers thoroughly enjoy the winter or dislike the cold winters in Massachusetts.
Studies show that people in the warm and bright summertime tend to be happier versus in the cold and dark winters.
“I don’t like doing outdoor activities in the winter because it’s too cold,” said Mrs. Carla Wagner.
Winter is coming up quick, so what do students and staff at Triton High School do enjoy this winter and beat the seasonal blues?
In the article “What doctors wish patients knew about seasonal affective disorder” by Sara Berg MS of American Medical Association, the author wrote, “when the days grow shorter and temperatures drop, millions of people find themselves grappling with the “winter blues.”
Many at Triton tend to agree.
“I just want summer back,” Junior Riley Dinsmore said.
“Emerging primarily during the fall and winter months when sunlight exposure decreases and clocks fall back, seasonal affective disorder can take a toll on a person’s daily life,” AMA states.
The many different activities that can fill your spare time, such as skiing, snowboarding, sledding, or ice skating and more can help people kick the winter blues.
As ponds and rinks freeze, ice skating is also a popular winter activity and students such as Senior Danika Prendergast love to spend their time skating. “I love to skate on Maecy (Gay-Killeen)’s ice rink,” Prendergast states.
Spending time with family and friends watching football, making ginger bread houses, or baking cookies are among other popular ways to spend the winter months.
“Baking with friends on the weekends is something I really enjoy doing!” Senior Riley McDonald says.
There is no skiing, snowboarding, sledding, or ice skating in the Summer but there are also lots of things you can’t do in the cold winters here in Massachusetts that you can do during the summertime.
“Summer makes us happier… well, that’s what the science says.” stated the article Happy Summer Daze
In the Swell Magazine, the author writes in the article “Happy Summer Daze”, “when sunlight hits our skin, our bodies do an amazing job at making vitamin D for us. Getting our daily dose during the summer months tends to be easier as our lifestyles are more aligned with the outdoors. Vitamin D has a visible flow on effect as it stimulates serotonin synthesis which promotes a positive mood and wellbeing.”
As the sun sets at just around 4 o’clock unlike the summer when the sun sets at around 8 pm, it can make people more tired. “The sunsetting earlier makes me so much more tired than I already am.” Dinsmore shared.
