I have a sense of humor, especially when it comes to the varied and creative jokes that one can make about my major, which happens to be meteorology. But Chris Bolla's column titled "Weather: The unpredictable dictator of moods" quickly deteriorated from an insightful look at how weather affects our lives everyday to ignorant bashing of meteorologists. I agree with Bolla when he discusses how weather can be overhyped and many people completely overreact to a storm warning. I was disgusted with the hype created about the Nor'easter storm during Spring Break, especially when predictions in my area went from two feet of snow one day to about three inches of snow and rain the next. But the fault lies not with the actual scientists, as Bolla implies, but how the media choose to interpret and market the given information about the weather. Any informed person should know that weather cannot be predicted with a zero percentage of error, and predictions given must always be taken with a grain of salt, knowing that the weather changes every hour of every day.

Bolla states: "Do they (meteorologists) really know anything? I doubt it. They just like to sound smart." I challenge him visit the sixth floor of Walker Building, home of Penn State's world-renowned meteorology department. He would meet the hundreds of students currently studying a major that he considers defunct, and intelligent professors who are discovering new ways of telling the world whether it will be sunny, rainy, hot or cold. I just want everyone to know that it takes years of studying extremely difficult scientific material to be granted the title of meteorologist, something I will be proud of even if my profession gets degraded.