50 Things We Really Need A Break From

Spring Break is finally here! And it's just in time, because you really, really need a break from the following things:

1. The constant fear that there’s a mouse in your room
2. Potential liver failure
3. Big/little reveal pictures
4. Future bankers
5. Your annoying hallmate who won’t stop smoking/having sex/singing “Stayin Alive” in the middle of the night
6. Passive aggressive roommate texts asking if “someone else can take out the trash just this once”
7. Drunk Allegro’s
8. Sober Allegro’s
9. 9:00am recitations in DRL
10. Over-enthusiastic RAs
11. People talking about PV
12. Acronyms
13. The now abnormal curvature of your spine that developed from hunching over in a VP carrel
14. The wind tunnel
15. The wind
16. The petri dish that is campus housing
17. The dull, vague sense of mediocrity that washes over you every so often – as you’re getting a bagel at Hub Bub or even as you sit in Williams and hear five different groups of people speaking five different languages better than you’ll ever speak English
18. Talking about “Pennface”
19. Not talking enough about “Pennface”
20. The actual piece of human feces on the Williams bathroom floor that you gingerly stepped around today
21. Buying toilet paper for yourself
22. Being creative when you forget to buy toilet paper for yourself
23. Feeding yourself
24. Sudden flurries of snow
25. Finding two matching pairs of socks
26. The giant laundry pile that’s been building up for two months now
27. The US drinking age
28. Ordering the exact same sandwich from the exact same food truck daily
29. The routine
30. The grind
31. The scary chairs in the Quad that you always forget can lean back and then you do and you are given you a small reminder of your own fragility
32. Students who threaten to sue TA’s
33. Pants
34. Sweaters
35. The giant “coming soon” wall under Commons. Soon has come, man. We want Pizza Pi back!!!
36. Coats
37. Scarves
38. Bras tbh
39. The aisles of Frogro that were designed by drunk residents of a now-defunct asylum
40. Writing
41. Reading
42. Arithmetic
43. E-mails with vague subject lines that trick you into clicking them, but it turns out it’s just that sketchy National Society of Collegiate Scholars thing tryna take your money
44. Honestly the prospect of a new Starbucks, while enticing, is a little overwhelming
45. Writing your thesis – jk, you’ll probably be doing that over break
46. Cloudy tap water
47. Upsetting tinder conversations
48. Talking about “the scene”
49. Reading investigative reporting about “the scene”
50. Penn 

Happy Spring Break, folks! Stay safe and don’t forget to send your hot Spreak gossip to tips@underthebutton.com!