Walking into a room scattered with slithering snakes is quite daunting at first, until you have one wrapped around your arm and crawling into your sleeve for warmth. While taking a break my Sunday night problem sets, I wandered into Rose Common Room to find snakes ranging from the size of my palm to taller than myself (which is not saying much considering I’m a lofty 5 foot 3 inches tall). I entered the herpetological atmosphere with the perception that snakes were the furthest thing from a human, but instead, I found out I was quite wrong. On top of having gorgeously smooth skin, snakes are friendly, shy, don’t like being touched on their head, and can even sneeze when they get sick. In fact, they can even vomit too, when their stomachs are not settling well – which is even more than what you can say for horses! This experience was quite nicely wrapped up at the end with a live occurrence of a snake vomiting on the student (which in retrospect might not have been quite exciting for the girl holding the snake)!