When midterms are on the horizon, the fastpaced college life gets even faster. Classes all day, studying when you can, then destressing for a couple hours with friends. That's your life for a few weeks. By the time midterms come, you wonder if you've studied enough. Each midterm feels like a battle.

Hopefully you remembered to bring all the knowledge you've crammed to learn over the past week. You fight every question, searching for the right answer. When it's over, when you've finished, relief swells in your heart. Well, until you realize that the grade matters and you start to worry about the outcome. The only thing to take away that stress is spring break.

Some people will spend their entire break working. Others will go out with friends every night. Some will spend this time getting ahead and finishing homework assignments. Everyone who doesn't fit in these categories goes home. They spend time with family. They catch up with the day-to-day occurances and get to chose what the family has for dinner. This time is very special.

Whether or not everyone is home, being home is just enough. This is time to spend relaxing and recovering for a whole week. Time like this is best spent catching up on sleep. Maybe watch a little too much TV. Finish the book you've been dying to read. But overall, not having to worry about deadlines or tutoring or studying is all that's needed.

However one choses to spend their spring break, when the time comes to go back to school, maybe they had just a long enough chance to breathe. Hopefully, the break was enough to recharge and finish strong.

When the week is over, everyone will head back to campus. We will ask eachother how the break was. The excitement and the rush of assignments will only rise. Something in the air will be different. Our smiles will be a little brighter. Spring break will leave us a little happier. Our hearts a little lighter. Sometimes a break is the best solution!