After graduating from college, I underestimated how much I would miss the freedom of a college schedule – having classes for a few hours each day, then figuring out what to do with the remaining 21 hours. After working for five years, I nearly forgot about having this daily freedom. What is even more disheartening, though, is that I forgot about the annual enjoyment derived from having multiple weeks off throughout the year.
Now that I am back in school, I truly cherish these responsibility-free vacations for Thanksgiving, the winter holidays, and one glorious week off for spring break. Yes, spring break. In my late twenties. Awesome.
Since this year and next will officially be the last two spring breaks of my life, I wanted to make sure they resembled the formative spring breaks of my undergraduate years. After much planning and consideration of various constraints – money, location, internship searching, time, etc – it was decided that sailing on a Caribbean cruise out of New Orleans held the most entertainment and enjoyment potential. Thus, a group of us embarked on a graduate school spring break that we would vaguely remember and yet never forget.
It is impossible to fully describe what all transpired during our 7 days on the boat and on various Caribbean islands – piling, earning the headband, hot tub happy hour, happy tub hot hour, “drunk salads”, “airplane sink water”, Caribbean “blue ocean strategy”, champ stamps, vault dancing, dropping the mic, and being late… for business. This random collection of hilarious moments does not represent hilarity to those beyond the boundaries of the boat because these moments are very much entrenched in the situational zeitgeist of the trip. What is transferable, however, is the valuable opportunity to have a week off with great friends, warm weather, and no responsibilities.
While it may be difficult to top Spring Break 2012, I will try my very best to do so next year and I encourage all of the MBA 2013s to do the same.
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