The Spectrum

Issue date: 4/14/05 Section: He Said... She Said...

Media Credit: The Spectrum/DANYA JIMENEZ

Spring fever is a very real chronic illness that most everybody with a pulse suffers from annually. Fever symptoms include having the uncontrollable desire to be outside at all times, your skins need to be exposed to the sun, and the inability to motivate yourself to do any form of work. You begin to notice what appears to be a new flock of attractive members of the opposite sex that have gone unnoticed all winter and seem to have magically appeared at the onset of spring time weather.
Spring fever is very common on college campus's, very contagious, and easily spotted. A Common sign of the spring plague at SHU is when students begin to emerge from winter dorm hibernation making their way outside. The picnic tables, patio, grass, walkways, and the baron wasteland quad are filled. Wiffle-ball, football, frisbee, hotdogs, and hamburgers also make their way onto the seen. Priorities then start to rearrange themselves as you grow distracted in class when looking out the window seeing your friends socializing outside.
For girls; capri pants, short skirts, flip flops, and tiny tops all begin to make their way out from the bottom of the drawers exposing newly tanned skin and the hopes of an early summer. This is usually what causes the spring fever in males to peak after looking at girls wearing puffy jackets, boots, and fleece pants all winter.
If you were smart you would have saved up all of your excused absences in your classes for the random spring trip to Fairfield beach, the Cascades, Westport center for Ben and Jerry's, ultimate Frisbee on the golf course, spending QT with a "spring fling," dragging the couches from South/West outside, tan time on the hill up to the Pitt, wiffle-ball tourneys, or a midday nap.

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