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I FLORIDA SPRING BREAK ROOM PACKAGES 4 DAY/3 NITE 6 DAY/5 NITE 8 DAY/7 NITE I

The release of getting out of class
for break can bring out the reck-
lessness in all of us. While spring
break can provide some excellent
opportunities to get loose, make
sure to proceed with some degree
of caution.
After 36 hours of stimulant-
fueled computer programming and
.paper writing, escaping to the fro-
zen wasteland of Indiana for spring
break seemed like a good idea last
year. On the other hand, waiting
until the last minute to finish two
computer science projects and a bio
paper before break was probably a
bad idea to begin with.
But as the hours creeped closer
to spring break, my mission was
clear: I had to finish these projects,
get to Bloomington and decimate
my liver and lungs.
I guess that's howI ended up try-
ing to write my paper on the MSA
Airbus and email it to my GSI from
the airport terminal. A few frantic
phone calls later, I even got one of
my friends to put a hard copy in
the instructor's drop box. Things
seemed fine.
One delayed flight later, I found
myself stuck in Chicago's Mid-
way Airport because the connect-
ing flight, the one the airport had
sworn I wouldn't miss, had left. I
did manage to nap for an hour or
two on the floor of the terminal,
and in my exhausted state, it was
simply bliss. Eventually I made it
to the Indianapolis airport. My
friends from home picked me up,
and we made our way through the
fields of snow and ice and arrived in
Bloomington.
When we got there, the chal-
lenges we faced were immediately
apparent. Every inch of the ground
was covered in ice, and even a short

walk was definitively dangerous.
But we were determined; we had
to party. What else is there to do in
Indiana? After assembling a crew
and appropriately altering our con-
sciousness, we gathered far more
alcohol than necessary and headed
to a random party a couple miles
away.
So naturally, we got trashed.
Despite my repeated observations
that drinking two 40s of Steel
Reserve makes me black out, I did
it anyway and never looked back. A
few shots later, I was in rare - and
extremely compromised, - form.
From what I remember, getting to
see my extended crew from high
school was great, and the party was
worthwhile.
At some point during the night,
things started to go downhill. I
tried to . steal my ex-girlfriend's
phone and generally acted bellig-
erently. Apparently, I also puked
over a balcony railing, showering
my vomit all over somebody's bike
seat. Worse yet, some partied-out
dude apparently put his hand in
the vomit and proceeded to eat a
few handfuls, though I can't really
be blamed for that, and I'm not too
upset that I don't really remember
that part.
I woke up the next morning in
an awkward position on a strange
couch, with some vomit (presum-
ably mine, but who knows) caked
on my sweatshirt. Of course, my
head hurt like hell, I was ridicu-
lously sore, and I had a number
of bruises on my arms and legs.
Although nobody could specifi-
cally remember, I'm sure stumbling
across a mile of ice had something
to do with it. At least I didn't eat any
vomit.
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