Spring break is evil. It's an appetizer for a meal that won't come for eight weeks. We get one week of freedom, sleeping in and vacation and then have to return to school.
As much fun as we had last week, we are having trouble focusing on the rest of the semester. Classes and work can't hold a candle to poker night and waking up at noon.
The worst part is spring weather; it's so enticing. Walking to class is going to take some serious willpower. The pool and its lovely scenery are looking so much more appealing than class.
It's not that we don't want to return to class (OK, that's a stretch), but it's too easy to put this ship in cruise control and coast until the end of the semester.
The danger is coasting too much puts the three G's (grades, graduation and GPA) in serious jeopardy.
Maybe it's just us, but we think the rest of you could use some tips to break the lethargic hold the post-spring break days have on us.
10. Make a resolution to only skip class once a week. The extra class time will help keep the grades up as May nears. You decide whether that means one class or one day of class per week.
9. Remember spring break only lasts one week. The break doesn't extend until Wednesday, and we doubt professors will buy the excuse that Delta Airlines couldn't find you a ticket home from Mexico until midweek.
8. Ration your alcohol intake. Don't go crazy now that the temperature is climbing or just because you want to show off your new tolerance for alcohol. Going out on Sunday or Monday is like skipping breakfast: it's the most important two days of the week.
7. Don't use the "my sunburn hurts too much to go to class" excuse more than twice. You might end up have to endure a why-you-should-wear-sunscreen diatribe if you push it.
6. Remember, there are only two weeks until April and then four weeks until May and then ... yeesh, forget that one. Summer is still pretty far away.
5. For extra credit, try giving your professor that crappy "I (heart) NY" shirt you bought or the straw hat you found on the beach at Rocky Point.
4. Write your term paper about getting arrested for public urination in San Diego over spring break. It's much easier when you write about something you can relate to.
3. Just in time for tax season, try to find a way to get a tax write-off for your spring break gambling losses and bail money.
2. Remember this: lethargy strikes professors too. Make things interesting and easy for them and May will come a lot quicker.
1. You figure out some other way to make the time fly. We're still too tired from all these days off.
