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Spring Break Expectations Vs. Reality

5 things we all expect from spring break, but that mostly never happen.

Angelika Saribekyan
Mar 27, 2017
Fordham University
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Spring Break Expectations Vs. Reality

We all have crazy fun ideas of how we want to spend our spring break. Go to a far away island, go on a crazy shopping spree, catch up with every friend you know, but what do most of us end up doing most of all? Catching up on sleep and our favorite Netflix show. Don’t lie. I am sure you have done it as well.

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Likewise, the workaholics here plan trips and take up work to keep busy and stay productive, but then comes the crash. This is when you realize you really need this break and all you want is sleep. Just sleep. A long hibernation period to be exact.

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Also, let’s not forget some of us make elaborate study plans during this much needed break. Soon, we do realize how exhausted, burned out, and crazy we are to fill our spring break with Organic chemistry and end up barely opening our books.

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We say we will only watch a “few” missed episodes of our favorite Netflix show, but most of us know this is just a trap. One episode turns into five...five turns into an entire season….and soon you find yourself somehow on another season or another completely new show.

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For those of us that end up missing school and being surrounded with busy work and actual people we begin counting down till the end of break. Yes this does in fact happen sometimes. I remember during summer break it seemed so long and stretched out that I felt separated from society. I missed my friends and actually being under pressure with work. Yes, I am a workaholic if you couldn’t tell.

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