I consider spring break to be the hump of the second semester, but not in the way you're probably thinking. I'm not looking at it as something to just "get through" (obviously, I mean who doesn't love being on break?) but I look at it as the middle of the second semester.

This meaning that once everyone returns from their vacations in the sun or some nice R&R with their dogs, its basically time to start counting down until the end of the semester, and to summer.

There are two types of spring break:

1. The go away kind:

Going away for spring break is liberating. You get to leave home for a little while, enjoy what else the world has to offer, and if you're anything like me, you chose the warmest, most tropical, beautiful place you could find with beaches and clear blue waters that go on for days.

2. The stay at home kind

Unfortunately, this is the kind of spring break I'm indulging in this year but that's okay. While of course, I want to be somewhere I can feel the sun on my skin, it just means I have much more of a reason to grind through the rest of the year so I can get home and summer can start at the absolute soonest moment.

Spring break can get upsetting sometimes. Why? Because it's the teaser for summer. Just when you feel like you can taste the freedom that salty air on a beach can bring you, you're thrown back into your stressful, educational, exam filled dynamic and are forced to deal for another month and a half.

Spring break is just an "over the hump" type situation, for me at least. You look forward to it, you enjoy it, you hate to see it go. You go back to school and realize that you're so close to finishing another year of college your just 2 sets of exam weeks away.

It definitely gets frustrating. Take it from me, someone who went home from break so she can work and earn money for the summer, going back to school with no true break sucks. On the other hand, though, it might be better because at least I don't know what I'm missing just yet.

If I had a taste of the sun and started developing tan lines before my exams were over, I'd never go back to school.

While I sit at work earning money for the summer, or while I'm up at Syracuse in 10-degree weather in the middle of March, I can't help but look forward at the things that are coming.

Sumer is almost here. Summer brings tan lines, ice cream trucks. sunsets at 8:45 p.m., traveling, and just overall better days. There's no one who misses the summer more than me, and once spring break ends, it's the final stretch to finals week then home and tanning.