Ohio State students challenged winter boredom by attempting an epic snowball fight on the Oval.
A Facebook event titled, “Big Ass Snowball Fight,” appeared to be a spontaneous idea to welcome people back for the first winter week. It was scheduled for Friday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m.
By Friday afternoon, more than 2,000 students accepted an invitation, up from 800 the night before.
However, the snowball fight peaked at 6:30 p.m. with about 150 people participating.
Despite only about 7.5 percent of invitees attending, many students had fun.
"I did hit a guy in the face,” said OSU senior, Abbie Miller, 21. “It was pretty sweet. He looked really in pain. And I hope Monday morning when he goes back to school he has like a nice shiner and he can say, 'Yeah, there was this girl on the Oval and she got me.’”
Some said they had nothing better to do in the winter and were worried the event would not take place.
"First week back, something to do, it was fun,” said OSU sophomore, Stephanie Hynes, 19. “I'm glad they did this. You have to do more things like this, something in the winter because it gets so boring. Because you're forced to sit in your dorm, and forced to study or do nothing.”
The snowball fight began just after 6 p.m. It was 21 F, according to weather.com. Students began hesitantly at first, comfortably throwing snowballs at their friends. It may have been too cruel to throw at strangers. Eventually, almost everyone joined except for those who were still not comfortable and decided to build snow figures and make snow angels.
OSU sophomore, Sam Gastel, 20, was one of the first to arrive. However, he was unimpressed of the 27 participants starting the fight. Gastel said he came because he was bored, and he was disappointed by the attendance.
However, students like Hynes and Miller decided to be optimistic and stick around. Both students said they were glad they stayed and were enjoying themselves.
Groups were spontaneously formed and dropped. Some fighters waited with their weapons until ready to unleash their icy ammunition onto their peers while others steadily supplied a barrage of attacks.
"It's like chaos,” said Miller. “They tried to organize a little bit with the colors, but it ended up just being a free for all.”
The fight was hectic and things got personal. Friends made sure to have a healthy yet competitive feud, while others took pride in challenging complete strangers.
Every student seemed happy to celebrate their first week back at OSU and blow off the idea of no fun during winter quarter.
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