Along with the glorious smell of cigarette smoke and copious amounts of pollen, the joy in LSU students to be back on campus after a week long break is in the air.
With only two weeks of classes and final exams remaining, students spent their precious free time over the break mentally preparing for these cherished academic pursuits.
This semester has been a relatively easy one for many LSU students.
Starting the semester off strong was a slew of so-called “snow” days. Students were plagued with sadness because of this, as they had been waiting for days of non-stop monotonous learning since the end of the fall semester.
On top of this, students were incredibly happy with the spring semester’s lack of LSU football games.
Instead of entire days devoted to chaotic tailgating and shouting obscenities toward opposing teams, LSU students were delighted to spend their Saturdays either in snow day make-up classes or studiously reviewing material to be fully prepared for the next week’s classes.
Clearly, no LSU football meant no more distractions for the University’s devoted and diligent students.
University students are thankful to the administration for granting them two different breaks this semester — one for Mardi Gras and one for Easter. Sometimes students need a rest from days of classes to be able to fully devote their time to understanding the difficult concepts presented in their course work.
There is just no better time to fully immerse oneself in the ideas presented in differential equations or Nietzschean philosophy.
This is why, more than any previous year, LSU students are ecstatic to return to their daily schedules of adequate amounts of sleep, class, healthy eating and studying.
After watching hours upon hours of cautionary news pieces about rowdy spring breakers on networks like CNN and Fox News, University students wanted to show there was indeed a different side to spring break.
Obviously fed up with the stereotype of spring break being “getting drunk on a Gulf Shores beach while continuously refreshing the LSU Checkpoint Twitter page,” LSU students decided to take matters into their own hands.
Surviving through nine classless days, University students spent much time alternating between studying, dramatically crossing the days off of a calendar and emailing their teachers in an attempt to strike up stimulating conversation they had been missing.
Students even survived through the dreaded stoner holiday, 4/20, falling on the same day as Easter Sunday, a Christian holiday celebrating the invention of chocolate and a humanoid bunny handing out pastel-colored treats.
The event was colloquially deemed, “Weedster.”
LSU students, not being the partying type, managed to refrain from both smoking marijuana and eating fluorescent Peeps.
On the Sunday before the first day of classes since spring break, students took the day to familiarize themselves with the lecture notes and course material their classes left off on before the break.
In this penultimate week of class, professors and instructors are likely to see an increase in attendance, class participation and a genuine effort to not fall asleep.
Students, however, will be cherishing these priceless next weeks until the most dreaded break of all — summer.
SidneyRose Reynen is an 18-year old film and art history freshman from New Orleans.