Oh, you think you had fun last semester? Just wait. Second semester is like when you go to Starbucks late at night so they give you all the pastries in the case for free. You wanted the pastries, but now you have 9 scones and they were all free. That is second semester; you wanted to have fun and then all of sudden you have the best weekend of your life every single weekend. Now that’s wild. It’s not free like the Starbucks scones, but it is way better.

1. If you are a freshman, by now you don’t have as many of those awkward I-am-trying-to-make-friends interactions: You know exactly what I am talking about. First semester is all about waving at people but never remembering their names and going out to lunch and asking people what they want to study or where they are from. By now, school is much more homey than it used to be and you can stop pretending to be excited that someone is ALSO studying business or saying that all you know about New Jersey is from the Jersey Shore show.
2. Carolina Cup: This just deserves an entire number on this list. If you can peak twice in your life, I peaked last year and fully intend to peak again this year. Literally the goofiest and most irresponsible day of the entire spring semester.
3. St. Patrick’s Day: The other option for my article this week was writing about how this is such an underrated holiday. It’s fun. It’s green. All the parties had different themes and everyone still shows up in green. That’s awesome.
4. The weather: Now, this March has been obnoxiously cold, so it doesn’t count. But usually, we are starting to enter into the sunny and "75 times" of spring and could it get better than that?
5. Every weekend has something going on: Either it’s Carolina Cup or beach weekend or a date function or Wake N Shake. The spring semester is just endless good times. The weekdays don't get easier but there is always something good to look forward to at the end of the hard week.
6. Spring Break: It doesn’t have to be like every movie you have ever seen about Spring Break. It can be, or you can go home and bond with your parents that you haven’t seen all semester. Spring Break is like Winter Break’s more optimistic and fun best friend.
7. If you are a sophomore, you are getting excited about studying abroad: Wake is great, but this is all the more reason for the sophomores to be running wild. We might not be on campus next semester—so we should probably live it up before we are in a different country away from our friends where we may or may not speak the language. Huge and exciting stuff happening over in Europe I hear.
8. You have finally learned how to study: It’s funny cause I am procrastinating writing this article right now, but at least for freshmen, you realize what a high caliber this school functions at and how to not let it absolutely wreck you.

The fact that I now have to do homework and cannot reminisce on how great this semester is going to be is practically unethical. But just remember that this is going to kick first semesters butt so—there you have your really good reason to sit down and write that paper or study for that orgo test.