Spring break: The time of sunny days, cabins, condos and no homework. After a week of tanning, smoking (candy cigarettes), drinking lemonade (definitely not the hard kind), and being generally cruel to our bodies, coming back to the Berry Bubble and mountains of homework and responsibilities is like stepping out of a boiling hot tub and onto a cold, slimy marble floor. To help ease the pain and discomfort of coming back after break, try a few of these fun tips.
1. Make time to go out.
It can be easy to be sucked into the black hole of stress that comes with getting back to school. Instead of going from all play to all work, make it an easier transition. Go out with your friends once or twice a week. Use that waterproof makeup you bought for the beach so that no one at the bar can tell that you're silently crying as you think about laying down to sleep on your plastic dorm mattress, rather than the posh hotel bed you grew emotionally attached to.
2. Take a nap in your handy ENO.
Rather than continuing your life in the bright, harsh world of academia, why not wrap yourself in your colorful hammock and pretend that you're back in the womb, safe from those term papers that are carefully sneaking up on you?
3. Take a hike.
Get outside - hike Viking Trail. Or, go straight to the top of a mountain; far, far away from work obligations, where your crippling depression and your professor's attendance sheet can never find you.
4. Drop out.
It's always an option. Then you can have permanent spring break! Plus, your parents will be thrilled with your new career choice of "basement dweller."
5. Pay a visit to the grave of Martha Berry.
The most classic and most effective coping method is very popular at Berry. Take time to pay your respects to the ghost of our magnificent founder, Martha. She'll be happy to see that you are back on the beautiful campus. And, if you leave the traditional offering of two graded papers, some deer fur and one can of sweetened condensed milk, it's rumored that she will bless you with an easier transition from spring break into the rest of the semester, and give you academic wings to help you soar into summer.
