Spring break: a time for Millikin students to take a moment and forget about all of the struggles of daily life, head home, or to the highly visited Florida, and simply relax. Lay out in the sun. Sleep in until noon. Or two. Or five. Take a breather. Finally release that stress.

Or at least, that’s how it should’ve been.

Instead, campus went into a mass panic as spring break came to a close and nothing was accomplished. Procrastination is always worse during a break, but for some reason this year, so was the workload.

For instance, the Monday after returning from spring break was the due date for JMS applications, which numerous people, including myself, had all but forgotten about. Professors also assigned numerous projects that were due when we returned, although many of them pushed the due dates back.

But let’s be honest: those assignments didn’t stop us from rocking our spring break; they only made returning a little more stressful. However, if you didn’t go somewhere awesome, your spring break wasn’t really that eventful.

A lot of campus stays home for spring break, enjoying family time, sleeping in late, and overall being rather bored. Some people stay on campus and are even more bored but get quite a bit more sleep. Then there are the students who road-trip or fly to faraway places like Florida or California. Those students faced the least restful (but most eventful) spring break of all.

Regardless, once you return to campus and get back into the swing of things, it never really feels like spring break happened at all. The stress returns as assignments all come due at once. The allergies come back as the sinuses adjust to the different, soy-infested climate. And frankly, the cold just feels that much worse. Truly, how could you call something a “spring break” when it’s not even spring?

But warmer weather is on the way. Thoughts of spring seem hopeful and possible now that the snow is gone and the sky is bright. Spring break weather was just a little bit delayed.