Controlling your spring break buffoonary

Legend’s View

Like most things in life, there is a right way and a wrong way to approach spring break.For decades, spring break has been promoted as the time to hang out on the beach or poolside with a cocktail in hand by channels like MTV.

Yes, we are entitled to a break from classes and a chance to cut loose but that entitlement does not extend to breaking the laws in other countries or of gravity.

What MTV doesn’t put on the air is people getting arrested for public intoxication or fighting, falling face-first into the asphalt or misjudging the cliff jumps at Havasu.

Surely no one wants to spend a good portion of their break relaxing in a Rocky Point jail cell or in some hospital bed, or come back to school with their face all scraped up.

While there is nothing inherently wrong with margaritas or tequila shooters, if taken in excess while out in the sun, you can end up in dangerous situations.

Being young does not equal invincibility.

The police in Mexico, or anywhere else for that matter, will not hesitate to arrest you just because you are an American college student on spring break.

Gravity will not hesitate to pull you painfully to the ground at the rate of 9.8 m/s2 just because you are on spring break.

And so on.

These rules apply if you are staying in town as well. The police departments know when spring break is and you can bet the money you’ll end up paying for a ticket that they’ll be out in full force.

DUIs, MIPs and 90-day noise complaints have social and monetary consequences lasting well beyond the time parameters of spring break.

So whether you are headed to the beach, the lake, the pool or the slopes, just remember not to lose your head.

Bear in mind, you don’t have to fit all your partying for the year into this one week.

After spring break, summer will come.

And fear not, to help pass the time until then, there will be weekends spread throughout. There will be plenty of occasions for you to get your party on.

So have fun, go a little crazy and remember to give yourself some recovery time before classes start, showing up to a Monday morning class after a week of partying without some sort of buffer in between will be darn near impossible.

  • Mesa Legend Staff

    These are archived stories from Mesa Legend editions before Fall 2018. See article for corresponding author.

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