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Blog: Reasons why Spring is overrated

Worms. One of the reasons why Spring isnt as awesome as its cracked up to be.
Worms. One of the reasons why Spring isn’t as awesome as it’s cracked up to be.

Worms. One of the reasons why Spring isn't as awesome as it's cracked up to be.
Worms. One of the reasons why Spring isn’t as awesome as it’s cracked up to be.
It’s no big secret that everyone is excited about spring. We can all finally shed our chunky sweaters and kick off our fuzzy boots in celebration of warmer weather and the fast-approaching end of the school year. However, are we giving the season too much credit? We drag through the seemingly endless winter waiting for warm weather aka spring to come and now that it’s here, we’re left wondering where the party is. The answer is “not for another month when summer gets here”.

In no particular order, here are ten reasons why Spring isn’t all that it is cracked up to be:

1. You’re literally allergic to the season: It’s hard to enjoy the warm weather when your nose is a stuffed-up, runny mess and you can’t see out of puffy eyes. The sound of sneezing and sniffles echoes through the halls of school like an unsanitary concinnity and the teachers quickly resort to using toilet paper in lieu of actual kleenex because the tissues are literally flying out of the boxes and there never seem to be any reserves hiding in the supply closets.
2. “Spring has sprung”: If I hear somebody say this cliched phrase one more time, I’m going to lose my springin’ mind.
3. Daylight savings is still screwing me up: It was already difficult enough for me to wake up and arrive at school while the 7:40 warning bell rings. Now that the clocks are pushed back an hour, waking up and being places on time is an even greater struggle. Things won’t feel back to normal until summer vacation or about 2 am on November 3rd at the latest.
4. Lack of holidays: Unless you’re lucky enough to have a birthday smooshed in between spring break and the last day of school or have darling grandmothers who give you “I Love You” checks on the regular, the next few months will be bleak, dreary and uneventful. However, Mother’s and Father’s day is coming up soon if that makes you feel any better, but why a high schooler would be excited about a holiday that doesn’t result in monetary/material reward or self glorification, I don’t know. Kudos to your parents though.
5. Snow: The first few weeks of spring felt no different than the middle of winter did. We had more snow in the first few weeks of spring than we did throughout the course of the whole winter. I embrace snow whenever we can get it, because having a decent snowfall in Harrisonburg is about as likely as me becoming America’s next top model, aka not likely at all. But, there comes a point when you have to reevaluate what is and is not ridiculous, and a foot and a half of snow in the middle of March is a little ridiculous.
6. Rain: Spring showers may bring May flowers, but May flowers bring pollen, allergies (also see number 1) and bees who threaten to sting you as soon as you step outside. Spring rains also bring sticky, suffocating humidity whose only purpose is to completely destroy the perfectly sleek hair that I laboriously toiled to straighten. This is basically why I never look good at school. Or ever.
7. Worms: A byproduct of rain, these squidgy little suckers writhe around on sidewalks, driveways and walkways waiting for you to step on them. Their distinct swampy odor fills the outdoors after heavy rains and puts you on high alert to watch out for the horrid little pink annelids scattered underfoot. One should watch their step after times of rain, because the last thing anybody wants is to walk around with a worm corpse stuck to their shoe.
8. You can’t slip and blame it on the ice anymore: This might be the biggest downside of spring. I can no longer blame the elements of nature on my clumsiness and now my slips, spills and trips will be even more embarrassing due to the fact that I have no legitimate reason to be slipping, spilling or tripping.
9. No more jackets cuts down on the number of pockets you have to carry stuff: There are only so many things that can fit into your jeans pockets before you start looking like a definition goober. Now that warmer weather is rolling around, coats, jackets and sweaters are just a memory of colder days when we could stuff everything that we needed into our pockets and go.
10. Unstable weather makes it a struggle to get dressed every morning: Well, a bigger struggle than it already is anyway. Spring weather is seriously the weirdest of the weird: it’s chilly in the morning and sweltering in the afternoon. To wear or not to wear a jacket, that is the real question here. If I don’t wear a jacket, I’ll be cold in the morning and most likely throughout part of the school day. If I do wear a jacket, I’ll won’t be cold but I will look like a weather-confused loser carrying it around at the end of the day. It’s a difficult choice; choose wisely.

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    HaiMay 29, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    I really like it when people come together and share ideas. Great blog, keep it up!

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