Spring Break
Living it up in Baltimore and beyond
Guest Column
Issue date: 4/30/09
Finals are nigh, my friends, and let's face it: We are getting desperate. Spring Fair is over. Students across campus are locking themselves in their rooms, or worse yet, D level.
Everything else is on hold. Laundry? Pants don't need to be washed until someone can smell you before they see you. Grocery shopping? Ten pounds of Ramen should do the trick. And when you don't have time to cook them, you can even eat them dry, like chips. Sort of gross, but this is finals. Finals require a total war effort (oh, that phrase would work well on your history exam . . .).
Sadly, for most of us this means we haven't had the time to figure out what on earth we're doing during the summer after finals (if such a life exists). Do we go home or do we stay in Baltimore?
Luckily for you, I've procrastinated just long enough to come up with a few criteria you should consider before ritualistically burning your textbooks and whipping out last year's bikini. So snuggle up with your Ramen and smelly jeans, and do a little soul searching!
Living with the family
Chances are I haven't met your family, so deciding whether or not living with them is a good idea is pretty much up to you. It may be that nothing beats spending time with parents, siblings and Fluffy and eating someone else's cooking for a change. This summer could be the time to catch up with all your friends, cruise around your old haunts and feel young and carefree again.
On the other hand, life with the parents lacks certain perks that staying in Baltimore does. Beer before noon is probably out. Questions about those grad school applications are probably in. Sibling rivalry can get pretty nasty when you get your spring semester grades. You may want to ask friends, both from here and from home, to see what they're doing. By the time you find out that everyone you know is in Costa Rica and Fluffy has left a hairball in your shoe, you may wish you had checked this out beforehand.
Everything else is on hold. Laundry? Pants don't need to be washed until someone can smell you before they see you. Grocery shopping? Ten pounds of Ramen should do the trick. And when you don't have time to cook them, you can even eat them dry, like chips. Sort of gross, but this is finals. Finals require a total war effort (oh, that phrase would work well on your history exam . . .).
Sadly, for most of us this means we haven't had the time to figure out what on earth we're doing during the summer after finals (if such a life exists). Do we go home or do we stay in Baltimore?
Luckily for you, I've procrastinated just long enough to come up with a few criteria you should consider before ritualistically burning your textbooks and whipping out last year's bikini. So snuggle up with your Ramen and smelly jeans, and do a little soul searching!
Living with the family
Chances are I haven't met your family, so deciding whether or not living with them is a good idea is pretty much up to you. It may be that nothing beats spending time with parents, siblings and Fluffy and eating someone else's cooking for a change. This summer could be the time to catch up with all your friends, cruise around your old haunts and feel young and carefree again.
On the other hand, life with the parents lacks certain perks that staying in Baltimore does. Beer before noon is probably out. Questions about those grad school applications are probably in. Sibling rivalry can get pretty nasty when you get your spring semester grades. You may want to ask friends, both from here and from home, to see what they're doing. By the time you find out that everyone you know is in Costa Rica and Fluffy has left a hairball in your shoe, you may wish you had checked this out beforehand.
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