1. “Anxious for a Break”
By the time Spring Break rolls around, everyone on campus is ready for the much needed week
off. Whether it’s a professor or a librarian or a student, those five days will be filled with some
much needed sleep and catching up on school work.
Most students find their way home for the vacation, preferring to sleep in their own bed than that
creaky old mattress in the dorms.
As fascinating as it is, “Spring Break” has always been around. It wasn’t always about partying
and drinking on a beach, though.
As far back as history has been recorded, people have celebrated the arrival of spring, such as
the ancient Greeks and Romans, who greatly believed in self-indulgence. According to
bustle.com, the people of the time revolved their parties on the respect for Dionysus or Bacchus,
the Greek and Roman gods of wine.
But what we now know as Spring Break really began because of two events: when Fort
Lauderdale built Florida's first Olympic-size pool in 1928, and when MGM Studios released
“Where the Boys Are” in 1960.
Fort Lauderdale's pool, the largest swimming pool at the time, brought the nation's top
competitive swimmers to the city during their break from classes. By the late 1930s, more than
1,500 student-athletes were flocking to the city's College Coaches' Swim Forum. The first of
these forums was hosted in 1938, and swarms of college swimmers made Fort Lauderdale their
exclusive Spring Break home well into the 1960s. By that time, students that were not even
athletes began to take part in what these swimmers had created.
A year later, MGM Studios released “Where the Boys Are,” a coming-of-age film that followed
four college women during their spring vacation. Spring Break became a very real thing for any
collegiate male or female who wanted to escape to the sand and sun. In 1986, MTV launched its
first Spring Break special in Daytona Beach, Florida, and found an annual tradition in showing
what really happens on this mid-semester get-away.
By the end of the '80s, the city that first made Spring Break famous, as evidenced by the 370,000
students who invaded in 1985, said it had had enough of the raunchy and unruly guests it had
invited all those years ago. Citizens outlawed opened alcoholic beverages in the streets and the
then mayor of the town urged the college students to take their partying elsewhere. It worked,
although the partying now takes place among multiple southern locations during the vacation.
But not all the students here at BloomU have intents on partying. Alyssa Marie Moore, a junior,
says, “I’m working over Spring Break. Didn’t have money for Cancun so I gotta start saving for
next year!”

2. And she isn’t the only one. Heidi Lou, a member of the Class of 2017 stated, “Spending time
with my son doing whatever he wants to do. He sacrifices a lot so I can go to school. I try and
spend as much quality time with him as possible.”
While some prefer to sleep the break away, others party it up until the week is way over.
Whatever your way of handling this coming Spring Break, make good choices and enjoy the
relaxation.