Stepping out of Tower on Wednesday, I realized that Wellesley has secretly transformed to Narnia. Snow befell on us during the night and early evening. As I walked to class, snow from the branches that were hyper-extended due to the weight of the snow fell on me. I felt a small tap on my head as a small chunk of snow first hitting my head then my shoulder before it all turned into powder.
Coincidentally, on Wednesday in class, we talked about how even though water/ice and diamonds have a tetrahedral structure, they are different since the former bound together with noncovalent interactions and the latter is held together by covalent bonds between carbon. Therefore, melting point of ice is much lower because the interactions are not as strong, so it “falls” apart more easily and turns into water. The strong bonds in diamonds are what makes the rigid structure and so hard.
As I leave class that day, I realized how luck I was to be hit on the head with ice and not diamonds falling from the sky (although a lot of people would be happy if diamonds were dropped from the sky). Their structures and number of bonds may be similar, but the effect of being hit on the head by them would be quite different!