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Not sure if you realized, but it is really, really cold right now. If you don’t believe me, check this. Yep.

In the interest of your health, your warmth, and your extremities, we’ve decided to outline a few places on campus not to go because they entail enduring way too much cold.

McCosh Courtyard/Firestone Plaza

Christ on a cracker, this has got to be the worst place; right in the center of campus Princeton’s architects managed to create two of the strongest wind tunnels I’ve yet to experience, and every time the wind blows through there I question the very existence of God. If you aren’t wearing earmuffs, or a face-mask, expect minor burns while you thaw in Firestone lobby.

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The prefrosh are coming this weekend, and in recent years, the little kiddies have enjoyed absolutely gorgeous weather. For those of you who don’t know, the weather was so consistently amazing on these preview weekends that people started suspecting Shirley Tilghman kept a weather machine for the occasion. I mean, we’re talking brilliant mid-70s sunny kind of stuff.

But have you checked the weather report for this weekend? Awful, to say the least:

Welcome, prefrosh!

Welcome, prefrosh!

But, maybe Shirley knows what she’s doing — a new Penn study shows that cloudy weather might actually attract prefrosh. Weird?

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“HURRICANE-LIKE SNOW STORM COULD DUMP 15 INCHES OF SNOW IN NORTHERN N.J.!”

Star-Ledger: “Expected to hit tonight and continue into Friday… Mercer and Ocean counties should see about a foot of snow on the ground.”