Well, I did it. Like so many other college students from around the country, I successfully survived Spring Break.
About two weeks ago, after a rocky start (missing our 6 a.m. flight at Newark and having to travel by taxi to JFK to catch another plane), I traveled with a group of my friends to Negril, Jamaica. Many bottles of sunscreen and glasses of rum punch later, we’d created some pretty memorable, although sometimes blurry, moments.
As a senior who’s about to graduate, I’ve also realized that this was my last chance at a real college Spring Break. That in mind, I’ve compiled a list of things my friends and I did or experienced on Spring Break that after college, we’ll never be able to, or (in some cases) never want, to do again:
* Dance in a five-foot-high foam pit
* Eat jerk chicken (or any “jerked” meat, for that matter) from a tent next to my hotel
* Wear seven multicolored bracelets with pride (a.k.a. an “extreme party wrist”)… because each bracelet represents another night of boozing
* See multiple fat European men in Speedos, and one turquoise man thong
* Watch a variety of contests in which the end result was always mass nudity
* Share a bath towel with three of my roommates, because towels mystically disappear at Jamaican hotels.
* Watch my friend drink a beer from a boy’s crotch
* Know anyone with a Spring Break “boo” (definition: a stranger that you consistently run into and hook up with on spring break, but who you essentially learn nothing about and will never see again)
* Live on a diet of pretzels, peanut butter, Cheerios and Burger King
* Wake up at 8 a.m., extremely hung-over, to travel to a waterfall
* Have conversations with Jamaicans that have names like “Ice” and “Romeo”
* Spend an unforgettable week of my life with 11 of the most fun girls (and boy) at Fairfield University
All this having been said, I highly suggest that everyone experience Spring Break at least once. Everyone needs a week to get away with your friends to a sunny locale surrounded by a bunch of strangers who you’ll never see again (just watch out for Girls Gone Wild). So booze your face off, tan all day on the beach, dance with strangers, and remember: What happens on spring break stays on spring break!
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