It's that time of year: classes seem longer, and the days are getting warmer. It's time to pack your bags and gather your group of friends and head to warmer places. To have the ultimate college spring break experience, follow these guidelines: 

1. Befriend a group that isn’t from your school.

Lets be honest: anyone that goes on a big college spring break travels in large groups, often of multiple rooms. It will pay to have a different place to go before heading down to the beach parties, and if anything embarrassing happens you’ll most likely never see them again. Win win.

2. Never sleep in. Ever.

You’re on spring break, for heavens sake. Everyone knows that spring break in college isn’t for an actual break, but for some serious good times. So wake up early, jump on your friends beds, and get your suits on because its time to make some memories.

3. Make a stranger take an awesome picture. 

Take the picture that you'll look at years from now and think: "yeah, that was an awesome day."

4. After you take that picture, Put the phone away.

You’re on spring break. No one is reading your tweets or tap-tapping your Instagrams so you might as well just put it away and enjoy your awesome life.

5. Spend a full day on the beach.

I’m talking morning til night. Strap on your swim suits at 8am and DO NOT LEAVE THAT BEACH until the sun sets at 7pm. It’ll be exhausting, but worth it. There’s always something to do on the beach.

6. Stay up for 24 hours.

If you really need help grasping this one, I’ll lay out a schedule for you:

8 a.m.: rise and shine, make some drinks, and get down to the pool

12 p.m.: eat something, then saunter yo'self to the beach

1 p.m. - 4 p.m.: completely lose track of time. Sometime in these hours you better take a dip in the ocean

5 p.m.: more food. Seriously, you have to nourish yourself.

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.: get ready and excited for the night, and tell stories of your day

8 p.m. - 8 a.m.: do anything you can think of. It'll be fun, I promise you.

7. Get a tattoo.

I mean, you really don’t have to. But at least get one of those cool airbrush tattoos that everyone wanted in middle school but never got. Its your time!

8. Attend a live concert.

Even if you’ve never ever heard of the band. There’s just something about live music that makes the weird spring break bar way cooler.

9. Soak it up.

College only comes once, and you are lucky enough to experience one of the most talked about weeks during anyone’s college experience. So, live it up. Put away the phone. Watch the sunrise and set (in one day). Break a rule or two. Meet new friends, and enjoy your time with the old. Do the things that only your friends will know about, and do the things that will be amazing stories for years to come.