Did you do the "spring break experience"?

No, not here. I had a girlfriend so could “hook up” any time, and if I wanted to get high, well, I had quality connections in Athens, GA not in Fort Lauderdale, FL. :wink:

It was rather nice being “alone” during SB.

Nope, I was poor and working the first two years, gone on semester abroad junior year, and then planning/saving for a wedding my senior year.

Not exactly. In my sophomore year I saved up and went to NYC with my boyfriend on spring break, but we didn’t do it with the “go-crazy” mindset. I just wanted to go on vacation for the first time as an adult. It was a lot of fun, but we didn’t go wild. Tried a lot of new food (my favorite was the sushi, 2nd favorite was Ethiopian) and visited lots of museums and landmarks. My dogs were barkin’ by the end of it, that was a LOT more walking than I was used to.

I just got back from Spring Break on Sunday. My break was not anything like what was described in the OP. I brought my ladyfriend home to meet my family, and our activities were fairly ordinary – walking the dogs, cooking tasty food, playing board games. We also spend a night in New York City, but there wasn’t any drinking or craziness there either.

I always took advantage of spring break to work extra hours.

Once, sort of. Junior year, which was my sister’s first year of grad school. We drove to Daytona Beach from Ithaca (19 hours, straight shot, stopping only to pee and go through the McDonald’s drive through). Once there we didn’t really do the typical spring break thing. We camped, and went to the beach during the day. Did a little sightseeing, ate at Chick Fil-A. Drank a few beers at the campsite at night. Very mellow and non-debauched. We had a great time.

Nope.

One time my friend and I went to Toronto for spring break (she wasn’t even in college) and it was hilarious because we went through Niagara Falls and there was a blizzard and it was the least “spring-breaky” thing ever.

Who goes to Canada for spring break anyway? Well, two fat girls who wouldn’t be caught dead in a bikini, for one :slight_smile:

I never had the money - I could barely afford college!

Yes, I spent two wild and crazy spring breaks in Florida. There was much drinking, dancing, puking and…other stuff. Not always in that order. At the time it was awesome. Hotels were jammed full of college kids. Wristbands got you free drinks 24 hours a day by the pool. Other wristbands got you into certain clubs. My friends and I usually made the 14 hour drive home with about a half dozen wristbands and a foggy memory of what just happened.

My first two college spring breaks, I just went home. For my last two, I joined up with a group from my church and went down to New Orleans to do volunteer work post-Katrina.

Both trips to New Orleans were very tame by spring break standards (as church trips are wont to be), though the first did include an episode with me and several other guys dashing back from a bar to our Baptist-operated volunteer shelter with cocktails in styrofoam cups, trying to both finish our drinks and make it back before curfew. Good times.

No, I never had any money for travel. But I’ve never been the Spring Break / PAR-TAAAAY type anyway. It always sounded too dangerous anyway – alcohol-fueled hijinks are NOT my thing. Drinking until you pass out / throw up / fall off a balcony? Theft? Assault? Rape? Um, no thanks.

Woohoo!

Haha, no doubt!

Um, ouch?

…but got away with it!!

He started it.

Seriously?

Yep, 1 year. Paid for by numerous keg parties at our house at $4/cup. Covered the expense of 5 of us. Good time, but it was of those “once is enough” type of experiences. No need to do it again the next year.

The whole stereotypical “spring break” experience (drinking heavily, hooking up, partying, “letting yourself go”) is pretty close to my definition of hell, so no, I didn’t nor did I have any desire to.

Seriously. Go read Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture for the inside story on those “Girls Gone Wild” videos. :frowning:

Why is Arizona a spring break destination?

Me too. The one year I didn’t try to work 80 hours over spring break was the year I was on a feild study trip in the desert.

Pretty close. My college roommate’s mother lived in Daytona Beach, so we stayed with her one year. She was very laidback and had no problem with us going out partying. During the day, we’d hang with her, go to the beach/pool, sleep. At night, we’d hit the strip. We weren’t as crazy as most, but we did our fair share of drinking and making out with strangers. My friend even came home with a new piercing acquired in a club.

As others have said, once was enough. We both thought the music and the boys were better at our school, so why bother?

I remember doing a ‘traditional’ spring break once in 1983, but more in the epic road trip style.

We were going to school in Boulder, CO. Our one scheduled activity was a Grateful Dead concert in Las Vegas later in the week. We spent a few awesome days in Arches and Canyonlands near Moab, UT, drove out to Vegas (I think just to get tickets), spent the afternoon and night in Death Valley (unexpected awesomeness), went back to Vegas for the Dead show, then after the show drove out to LA and crashed at a friend’s place and saw another Dead show. The next morning was Monday when we should have been in class. We hauled ass back to Moab, spent the night, then got back to Boulder on Tuesday.

I’m drawing a blank on the other years.

Nope.

Freshman year, I went with five girlfriends to one girl’s family’s vacation house on Nantucket for the week. Sophomore year, there are no pictures, so I either went home or just hung around the dorms. Junior year, a friend and I tried to do a week-long hike on the AT in Pennsylvania. We got about a foot of snow the second day, and hitchhiked to her car and drove home. Senior year, I did go to Miami, but not to party. I went with a group of women and we worked for Habitat for Humanity on a new housing development.