It seems the month of May has brought a more frequent appearance of the sun and happier attitudes among people.
For post-secondary students, the spring semester has just wrapped up, meaning many will begin their fourmonth summer vacation.
However, some students will return for a summer semester and give up four months of freedom.
Summer school is a more daunting task than meets the eye. If being bottled up and slaving away at school on a regular basis isn't hard enough, summer school is just pure agony.
Waking up early to follow the same old school routine, while watching the sun beam down on your friends as they frolic around, enjoying their new sense of freedom, is brutal.
Even worse is watching friends and family go on luxurious vacations in exotic parts of the world for extended amounts of time, while you sit in a crowded lecture hall cringing at the pictures just posted on Facebook by your best friend in Hawaii on your dream vacation.
How about that awkward moment when you're asked to go to a concert and become beyond excited before realizing that you're broke because you spent all your money on summer school tuition?
While other friends are working full-time making bags of cash, you're spending your last brain cells just trying to focus on the textbook in front of you.
For reasons I will never understand, some students will presumably enjoy summer school, but others will be penniless, worn out and bitter.
After deliberating this issue (for about a nanosecond), I must say, I am rather pleased with my decision to not take summer classes. I think Mark Twain would agree with me.
As he once said, "I've never let my school interfere with my education."
