Have any of you done the classics "Spring Break? Like gone to some beach area and gone crazy?
Or anyone else you know?
I never took that sort of spring break trip, myself. Just wasn’t my thing.
When I was a senior in high school, a number of my classmates (who were prodigious partiers) went to South Padre Island for spring break; the stories and pictures which they brought back indicated that they did, in fact, party their guts out (often literally).
I had several friends in college who went on road trips for spring break, as well, and it was a lot of the same.
No. It’s never sounded appealing. As far as I know, none of my friends have done it, either. Maybe it’s a rich kid thing.
I never did, nor did anyone in my social circle, but the first time I was in college, some of the girls on my floor participated in a bus trip to some sunny destination. They were a couple days later getting back because (among other things) the bus broke down and the driver had to fly to another state to pick up a part.
My sister considered it, and decided not to when she found out how much something like that would cost.
I’ll note that my high school classmates who did so were, for the most part, from relatively wealthy families (by Green Bay standards, anyway 
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I’ll also note that I’m the same age as Brett Kavanaugh, and the stories of the exploits of him and his buddies in high school reminded me an awful lot of the sorts of things that my classmates would spend their weekends doing.
Yes. My junior (Panama City Beach, FL) and senior (South Padre Island, TX) years in college. Technically, when I was 30 (Nassau, Bahamas) five of us did an “Old School” style spring break. Also when I was 37 a friend’s week-long bachelor party in Vegas also happened to coincide with Spring Break, St Patrick’s Day and the Sweet 16 week of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.
Basically it was pretty much what you see in the movies and TV. A bunch of dudes spending a week hanging out on the beach drinking, partying all night in clubs and what not.
Yes, with an asterisk. For my last year of college, I got a no questions asked spring break in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. That was also my parent’s home and they were there. But, I also had a political conference to attend for my internship in Miami that same week. So, I could finally be a full grown adult. If I wanted to crack open a beer and lay by the pool starting at noon, I could do so with with no guilt to help clean the garage.
It worked out fine, I got about $200 from my family for me to go out to the nightclubs and bars in Ft Lauderdale a couple of nights. This way they were able to send my under 21 year old brother to Cancun for his far more expensive spring break.
I was a bio major( also history, but that doesn’t count for this ), who tended to take a lot of classes with field components. So spring breaks were typically for extended field trips. Usually to various points in the desert as my school had access to a research station in the Mojave which could act as a central base.
Never really had a yen to go to some resort to drink and whoop it up, when I could just do that at home. I did get pretty smashed on some of those field trips though ;).
Yes and no. I never did the classic college thing but I have done Daytona Bike Week maybe a total of 18 times in 45 years and some other big motorcycle events. It is sort of the same but also very different as well.
Not for me; it was just a week where all I had to do was go to my PT job, instead of my PT job PLUS classes.
This is going to be the third year in a row for Kayla to spend it in NYC, doing musical theatre-related stuff, though.
When I was in high school, spring break was just a week off from classes. I’m not aware of any of my friends going anywhere - like we could afford to anyway.
In college, spring break was just a breather in the middle of the semester. One year, I did drive a ridiculously long way (West Lafayette, IN to Denver, CO) to visit a friend I hadn’t seen in years. My husband and I were married with a baby when he was in college, so no spring travels for him. My daughter attended college in Orlando, and I know she didn’t have any destination vacations - if she wasn’t in class, she was working to help pay for her education.
So, no, “Spring Break” was a Hollywood myth in my life.
No for me as well. I was always working (high school and college). Spring break was something the rich kids did.
Once when the kids were young (pre drivers license) we went to South Padre during their spring break. They really wanted to go to the beach, so we acquiesced. We took our RV and stayed in a campground, thinking that would reduce our exposure to the wild behavior. For the most part it was true, but our few trips into town were an eye opener. From what I saw, I don’t think I would have enjoyed SB even as a college kid.
In my days as a college prof …
When we moved close enough to drive to FL for spring break we did that the first spring break I had.
Never again.
So we sort of did the traditional spring break thing. But not a wild time or some such (for us). It was a family thing. Unfortunately, the zillion of other folk at the beach were something else.
Repeat: Never again.
Never did - not my thing.
The college roommate of my girlfriend is the only person I knew who was seriously into this. She went to some beach destination on the Gulf coast of Florida three times (first as a high school senior). She spoke quite favorably about the first two - until she returned from the third. After that, she wouldn’t speak further about any of them, except to say “Never again.”
We never learned the details, but it was clear they were rather bad.
Yep, Daytona Beach baby!!! Freshman and sophomore years of college, late 80’s. First year was a bust, ruined by bad weather. Second year was utterly incredible on every level.
I never went in college. However, I got the chance to go to Daytona when I was 25. A buddy of mine got us a place for free in Ormond beach, so we went for a couple of days. I have never felt so prematurely old.
I always wanted to, but I was always too unpopular and poor to do anything fun ha ha! I think the most fun spring break I ever had was watching James Dean movies nonstop with my sister while eating cookies we’d baked. 