Cross-country ski tracks and cleared sidewalks cut through a fresh blanket of snow on the Middlebury College campus.

2021 will be known for the many changes brought on with the COVID-19 pandemic, but at Middlebury College I will remember it as The Year of the Hammock. Free from the indoor mask protocols, students sought the outdoors and hoisted hammocks between any two structures that could support them, enjoying the lingering summer warmth late into the fall season.