Today, some 50 years after the first Puddle Jump, three of the event’s founders — Chris Callahan ’78, Scott Copeland ’78, and Lars Llorente ’78 — returned to campus to kick off this year’s edition.

In many ways, weather is nature’s Rorschach test. After all, the conditions you crave speak volumes about your inner psyche. Sure, most of us yearn for sunny days, but some will go to crazy lengths to ...