Spring Break
The Daily OrangeGoessling: Enjoy weather, lack of work while it lasts
By Tim Goessling
Posted: 8/28/07, 12:25 AM EST Section: Feature
The time is now. Seriously, what are you waiting for? You should be having fun. You're at Syracuse, you have no homework and it's not as cold as Leningrad.
Enjoy, because it won't last long.
Soon those multi-colored shirts and flip-flops will be traded in for the standard uniform of black North Face jackets and Uggs. Those T-shirts and flip-flops will be replaced with Timberland boots and even more black North Face jackets. Enjoy the board shorts, brah. Soon they'll be gone.
Soon that feeling of complete laziness will be replaced with a creeping feeling on your spine - the threat of school work. Of course, this feeling can be ignored for some time, but when the first exam arrives in your statistics class, we'll all wonder where that first week of partying went.
Soon that feeling that every house party or fraternity wants you at their parties will fade along with their beer supply. Frats will switch to having closed parties (some may stay open to prey on freshmen girls, but dude, well, you're done, son). Those throwing house parties will soon realize it's not cool to fill your house with random people who are sketchier than Alberto Gonzalez.
Soon those packs of freshmen clutching their RAZR cell phones like they are Olympic gold medals will turn into Kanye: "harder, better and faster."
They'll be harder to spot because they'll alter their lanyards, they'll be better at sniffing out parties and they will quickly realize they need to obtain IDs to get into the bar. So if you like yelling at them, do it soon, before they become your classmate, sorority sister or maybe even your friend.
Soon those Jager bombs will get repetitive and the sea of popped pastel polo collars will stop being funny and start becoming more annoying than that talkative kid in the front row of your biology class rocking a 'Ithaca is Gorges' T-shirt.
So don't take this as some type of bizarre eulogy for summer days - it's not. In fact it's a call to arms. Bust out the grill, head to the parties, throw the Frisbee, go to Onondaga Lake, chill at the graveyard, check out the State Fair, read a book that's not for school, make the porch your own and savor the parties.
As Seth Rogen says in "Superbad," "McLovin, McLovin, McLovin, life's too short." (I saw Superbad three times this weekend, and if you haven't seen it, do that, too, before it's too late).
The time is now, Syracuse. What are you waiting for?
Tim Goessling is a senior television, radio and film major and a disciple of McLovin.
Enjoy, because it won't last long.
Soon those multi-colored shirts and flip-flops will be traded in for the standard uniform of black North Face jackets and Uggs. Those T-shirts and flip-flops will be replaced with Timberland boots and even more black North Face jackets. Enjoy the board shorts, brah. Soon they'll be gone.
Soon that feeling of complete laziness will be replaced with a creeping feeling on your spine - the threat of school work. Of course, this feeling can be ignored for some time, but when the first exam arrives in your statistics class, we'll all wonder where that first week of partying went.
Soon that feeling that every house party or fraternity wants you at their parties will fade along with their beer supply. Frats will switch to having closed parties (some may stay open to prey on freshmen girls, but dude, well, you're done, son). Those throwing house parties will soon realize it's not cool to fill your house with random people who are sketchier than Alberto Gonzalez.
Soon those packs of freshmen clutching their RAZR cell phones like they are Olympic gold medals will turn into Kanye: "harder, better and faster."
They'll be harder to spot because they'll alter their lanyards, they'll be better at sniffing out parties and they will quickly realize they need to obtain IDs to get into the bar. So if you like yelling at them, do it soon, before they become your classmate, sorority sister or maybe even your friend.
Soon those Jager bombs will get repetitive and the sea of popped pastel polo collars will stop being funny and start becoming more annoying than that talkative kid in the front row of your biology class rocking a 'Ithaca is Gorges' T-shirt.
So don't take this as some type of bizarre eulogy for summer days - it's not. In fact it's a call to arms. Bust out the grill, head to the parties, throw the Frisbee, go to Onondaga Lake, chill at the graveyard, check out the State Fair, read a book that's not for school, make the porch your own and savor the parties.
As Seth Rogen says in "Superbad," "McLovin, McLovin, McLovin, life's too short." (I saw Superbad three times this weekend, and if you haven't seen it, do that, too, before it's too late).
The time is now, Syracuse. What are you waiting for?
Tim Goessling is a senior television, radio and film major and a disciple of McLovin.
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masha
posted 9/05/07 @ 9:34 AM EST
Leningrad?! Seriously?! I havent heard that name in years! Good to see it being put back in rotation. Having been born and raised there, I have to concur that Syracuse summers do indeed rock, and not just by Finland Bay standards. (Continued…)
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