Making the trip to College Park in late summer is a feeling only few understand. It's consistently around 90 degrees and you know it's still going to feel like summer for at least another month.
You drive into town with the windows down and can't wait to set up your new room in your apartment/house/dorm/etc. You get to see friends you haven't seen for the most part in three months.
Any day of every week students are outside enjoying the weather. Classes seem easier to deal with because you can walk there in shorts and a T-shirt. For everyone, no matter whether you are a freshman or a senior, it is a fresh start on a new year.
Then comes football season, which is undoubtedly a good time no matter how good or bad our team is. It's pretty hard to beat a good tailgate and then going to watch the Terps play. Everyone looks forward to every Saturday.
Watching and experiencing the summer weather fade into fall weather is also a great advantage of fall semester. Not only will snow not fall yet and the weather is bearable, but sweats are totally socially acceptable.
Even Thanksgiving break is great because all of your friends from home have the same break leading to a high school reunion every year. Next comes away weekend and then the holiday season and you get to go back home.
These are just a few of many reasons why fall semester is, in my opinion and that of many others, better than spring semester. It starts in the dead of winter and it is a struggle every single morning waking up to trek across the tundra that is College Park. As the cold wind swirls you realize you still have one more semester until summer weather.
The only good weather comes at the very end of the semester and then it's time to go home. It's hard to walk to classes, parties, the bars or anywhere, for that matter. You have to spend almost all of your money on Uber to get around.
Besides snow days and summer being close, spring semester doesn't have much to offer. I think all Terps can agree with me that the spring semester is an all around struggle.
