Editorial: Break is over, time to go back to class

Staff Editorial

Spring break–the week that gives students some much needed time off after a long nine weeks of classes.

It can be a time of relaxation without a care in the world where you can travel to a new place to spend time with friends or just chill at home.

It could also be a time to get some homework done so you wouldn’t have to worry about it Sunday night.

We’re sure some of you took your backpacks filled with homework back home and looked at it every day and thought to yourselves, “I’ll do homework tomorrow.”

But you never did, because spring break is not meant for you to do homework, and it was probably a good decision at the time.

But now that the fantasy of relaxing is over and classes resume today, and we are sure you are freaking out about all the things you ignored for a week that you probably should have been working on.

The small problem that comes with an extended break is coming back to a world filled with work that has been ignored for more than a week.

Spring break gives people that small taste of summer that does not involve any school related work, and people come back feeling a little lazy or just not take school as seriously.

You may start to ignore some homework assignments or not study as much as you count down the days to summer break.

Summer may be just around the corner, 46 days away to be exact, but to get there, you still have to go through a whole six weeks of classes and one week of finals.

That may seem like a lot, but we have already gone through nine weeks of classes, and those just breezed by.

The last six weeks of classes are the most important weeks of the semester, and they should not just be seen as time keeping you from summer.

This is the time where all students should be motivated to go to the library and study daily to pass all classes for the semester.

Don’t fall behind with that spring break mindset. It is time to get back to reality and focus on what actually matters.

College isn’t just that thing you do for nine months of the year while waiting for summer break to start. Everything you do here can determine your future, so this isn’t something you should be slacking on.

All or at least most students have already worked this hard into the semester, so keep the momentum going to the last third of the semester.

If you struggled previously or did not give your best effort, maybe spring break was a wake up call to come back to school more motivated to succeed and pass.

If you haven’t been to class in weeks, now would be a good time to start going and actually trying.

Seven weeks of schooling are left, a total of 46 days. These are days that require a 100 percent effort as opposed to just giving a lazy effort.

We’re almost there, and we had that first glimpse of what awaits us last week.

But like all good things in life, we need to work for it because a break is not just going to be given to us.

The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News