Feb 26, 2015 2 min read

Most college students plan fun and adventurous trips for Spring Break. However, Spring Break doesn’t always have to involve travel. You can enjoy your break just by spending it at home with your family. Many students aren’t afforded the opportunity to go home on weekends during the semester due to far away hometowns, busy schedules or bad roads, so going home and seeing the ones they love is a more meaningful trip than one to the beach in their eyes.

Though students often associate Spring Break with a trip to Florida or somewhere warm and exotic, most often, such trips are not realistic for college student budgets. Such trips can be costly, and most college students can barely afford an off campus meal. So instead of splurging on an often-unaffordable trip, you can enjoy unlimited home cooked meals from your mom.

Spring break is also a perfect opportunity to simply relax. Though travel is a wonderful, eye-opening experience, it often does not lend itself to relaxation. When embarking on a spring break trip, you may find yourself returning to campus more tired than when you left. Therefore, students without official plans should consider themselves lucky to have the opportunity to essentially take the week off. This will enable them to return to campus refreshed, renewed and ready to get back into the swing of things.

A week without work at home is especially a blessing as summers spent at home are often spent slaving away at summer jobs and internships, leaving little time for leisure or quality time with parents.

Therefore, Spring break is not necessarily about booking a trip with friends and having a grand time in places like Florida or Mexico. These are the times when, perhaps, you just need to spend time with the ones close to you. After all, we are not getting any younger, and time with our parents is becoming increasingly precious as the years go by.