Unpopular Opinions: Feels like Spring

March 16, 2023

By TaShia Hogue, Columnist

It’s March.

That point in the semester when you come to terms with letting go of that New Year’s resolution with a: “better luck next year!” As we spring further into ending the school year, the change in season is harder to ignore, no thanks to the spike in temperature.

While many students take advantage of Sundress Season and Summer Body Glow up with warm weather, others are dreading the seasonal inconveniences of springtime. From the distinctive Southern humidity, that attacks your wash-n-go hairstyle within three minutes of standing on the yard during Live Music Friday to the sinus attack of allergy flare-ups because New Orleans’ oak trees live forever just to torture us.

Between the blockage of nasal airways and sweating your edges out on the way to that 9:25 a.m. class that still feels a lot like an 8:00 a.m., it’s beginning to feel a lot like Spring.

“I keep having to remind the class that I’m not sick…I promise I don’t have COVID or anything it’s just my allergies,” said Michaela Gurley, a second-year accounting major, who fights for her life every morning on the way to Xavier South battling the symptoms of watery eyes and an itchy throat.

Nothing a Zyrtec can’t fix, but what’s the solution for the blazing sun? There’s not enough deodorant and sunscreen in the world. Just add that to the list of stressors as a college student directly under midterms, finals, and a semester that started late that we are paying for now. Good bye long hot-girl summer!

“With spring semester comes a lot more stress knowing that the school year is coming to an end and the weather changing does not help,” said Saige McCann, a sophomore, biology pre-medicine major on her way to the bookstore. “It’s a more stressful time,” compared to how first semester goes, “the classes seem harder,” McCann said.

Springtime down South for this Chicago native is a soft reminder that humidity is at the doorstep of hell, accompanied by sunshine and bugs – so many bugs. You can even use our newspaper as your very own mosquito swatter.

Good weather and flowers aren’t the only things that come to mind when thinking of the spring season, an associated thought is new beginnings. A thought seniors can’t escape as they wrap up their college undergrad experience.

“I’m not looking forward to being away from the family I’ve created here at Xavier,” said Za’Imah Tutler, a senior, biology pre-medicine major who’s having bittersweet feelings about her last spring semester.

“It makes me feel ecstatic being a first-generation graduate. I’m an inspiration and I love that because I want others to be able to do the same as me, but I’m closing out a chapter that I’m not ready to let go of,” Tutler added.