After six months of winter, deliverance is here. The Binghamton University student body has come out of hiding, sporting t-shirts, flip flops and a rare sense of optimism uniting our school. But let’s not get carried away. Spring may be approaching, but we can still appreciate the change in season without losing our shit. We need to be cool about the warm weather.
April is a special time for Binghamton; we have students in winter coats walking next to students in tank tops and shorts. Your foreign roommate might even leave the dorm room. It’s exciting for all of us, but before we bust out the acoustic guitar and hookah, let’s remember to keep everything in perspective. It’s way too early in the season to throw out your KanJam arm. And girls tanning on the Spine: chill.
It’s early April — you’re not going to the Blake tomorrow. Let’s set our sights a little lower here; there’s an appropriate way to enjoy the weather. Like looking out your dorm window and smiling, taking your Sodexo outside, or walking to Hillside instead of taking the bus, you lazy failure.
It may be the perfect time of year for the salamanders to get it on, but before you go breaking up with boyfriend or experimenting with mind-altering fungi in the Nature Preserve, think twice.
That being said, we’re incredibly thankful that the dark period of Winter is over. And if you have to make a Facebook album titled “Springhamton,” please limit the number of artistically filtered Nature Preserve photos. And now, the clothes we wear Downtown are finally weather appropriate. So we don’t have to sweat that one.