Celebrating spring

Yesterday, the first St. Patrick’s Day that hasn’t fallen during spring break in years, was the perfect spring day.  The beautiful weather and the pre-spring break excitement (tomorrow’s our last day of classes – but I finish at 5:45 today, and fly to Mexico with fellow blogger Eugenia and others tomorrow morning!) was pervasive on campus, and it seemed like everyone was outside, studying on the President’s Lawn or on the corner of Packard Ave and Professor’s Row, where several fraternities were collocated, having an impromptu block party.  

Now I have to admit that the frat scene is just my thing.  If you want to partake, it can be a big and awesome part of your Tufts experience, but if you don’t want to be apart of it, you don’t have to be. That’s one of the many awesome things about Tufts; in terms of Greek life, we have a little bit of everything.  

So anyways, yesterday afternoon I left class and made my way to Hodgdon for a sandwich, passing by this aforementioned corner, and even though I was (and am still!) studying hard for my last exam before break, the jovial mood was contagious.  Fraternity brothers and friends were lying out on blankets and cushions, tossing around frisbees, and blaring their music from five different directions.  

I felt like I was walking into a spring break block party, and it made me forget my upcoming exam…at least for the moment.