Cheers:

Spring Break: No alarms.  Hibernating for as long as you please.  The full-sized refrigerator filled with all the food your parents bought because you were coming home.  The unlimited Netflix marathons (House of Cards, anyone?) that can never happen during the semester.  Free laundry.

Spring in places other than South Bend: Dear Sun, it’s been a long time my friend.  Birds chirping.  Wearing shorts for the first time in ages.  Wind that doesn’t freeze your face off.  Remembering what a tan looks like (rarely seen out here in the tundra).

Spotify: The broke college student’s alternative to iTunes and piracy.  Well-played Internet, well-played.

Jeers:  

Spring Break Homework: “No other professor will be cruel enough to assign them work over break, so they’ll have plenty of time to do this pointless and time-consuming assignment,” said every professor on campus.  We have better things to do.  Yes, doing nothing counts as a better thing to do.

Alarm Clocks: And even worse, those people who wake you up five minutes before your alarm is supposed to go off.

Evil Squirrels: You know the ones I’m talking about.  They sit there with their beady little eyes and stare into your soul, waiting for you to make a wrong move.  Silent.  Motionless.  Deadly.

Meadow Jackson is a freshman majoring in sleep deprivation and caffeinated beverages.  If you have any cheers, jeers or otherwise humorous suggestions, please contact her at mjacks12@nd.edu.