Brown: Longer break needed from school, midterms
Spring break isn't long enough of a vacation from responsibilities.
By Jesse Brown (Contact)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Spring break flew by in a week, and like that it was gone.
After dealing with such stressful midterms and projects from my majors and minors, I was hoping to catch a moment of relief from all of the work I had done. I planned to get some much-needed break from journalism, the French language and the history of the Second World War.
The funny thing is I didn’t even do anything this spring break but work and try to relax in the meantime.
I honestly felt that myself and the rest of the student body deserved a longer spring break.
Why not start Wednesday or Thursday, after the break, just like the Thursday that starts a new semester. It’s a better transition back into school.
Those extra days could be used for rest and preparing for the rest of the semester, much like students do when they move back in town, buy their books and get mentally prepared after the summer ends, and they have to start the new semester.
Monday is too abrupt. Walking up and down Wescoe beach, students are still recovering from jet-lag, hangovers or from the stress of trying to keep up with the studies that have been assigned to them.
Monday can be a blaring annoyance when you come back from break.
“Welcome back students, you have a critical book review, a French cultural project, or make-up tests due this Friday,” says the professor on Monday when students are still trying to recover. I consider myself a well-behaved student but when I hear something like that, I want to throw the French book at the teacher.
I restrain myself.
Students leave that pre-spring break Friday amped-up with excitement to get out of school. They hope to have fun and relax from the stress of school. For those who have to work over the break, they deserve a good rest just as any other student who parties, drinks, mingles and lets go of all their troubles and worries.
I think a week of fun is much deserved for college students, and I think a few days rest after is deserved as well and not too much too ask.
The funny thing is I didn’t even do anything this spring break but work and try to relax in the meantime. I worked five days a week, and I would have worked a six if it had not have been for Easter Sunday.
I didn’t even go party that much like many of you college students, and I felt completely unprepared for school starting Monday.
I feel I barely got a break. I feel cheated. Here I did all this hard work for midterms, and I don’t even feel an ounce of rejuvenation going into the rest of the spring semester. I’m exhausted but I guess I will have to muster the strength to finish this semester on a high note, because a few days off maybe asking too much.
I know my plea will fall on deaf ears but I feel a longer spring break is well deserved.
Brown is a Lee’s Summit, Mo., junior in journalism.
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You will get some kind of rude awakening in the non-college world. There is no Spring Break. Every week is midterms. You can rest when you are dead.
We are only in school for something like 150 days. Less than half the year and you want more of it off. Of course your plea is falling on deaf ears.
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