It’s the end of the year and you don’t want to be in class anymore than you want to party on Walnut Avenue. We get it. As the sun gets brighter, it only casts a darker shadow in the classroom that has become your jail cell. However, there are ways to actually use spring fever to your advantage. We’re not saying it’s going to be easy or anything, but these ideas just might make your wait for summer a little bit easier to handle.

1) Suggest that class be held outside
While professors may try to hide it, we all know the truth. They want to be out and frolicking free just as much as we do. So why not take advantage of their love for the great outdoors and suggest an outdoor class session? With any luck, it’ll be held on the Quad. Here, you’re free to talk, wave and maybe even stare at some friends playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee, while everyone else hears the drone of Pavlov’s dog theories.
     
2) Plan an internship interview during the middle of the week
Unless your professor kindly refuses a paycheck from the university every month, he or she can’t discourage you from pursuing a career. With summer almost here, now’s the time most companies hold interviews for seasonal internships. Should you be asked to visit the office, make sure it’s smack-dab in the middle of the week. This creates the perfect excuse, and the perfect opportunity to get off campus for a few days. Just remember when you’re meandering through Los Angeles that this trip is for business, not pleasure.

3) Volunteer to give campus tours
You’re not cutting class, you’re fostering the future … right? While this might get you off the hook for that dreaded 8 a.m., just remember that wearing a blue and orange rugby shirt is the social equivalent of painting a big red target on your back for all your peers to see. But hey, by any means necessary, right?

4) Organize another Jamie Dimon protest
Whether or not you actually support the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. as this year’s commencement speaker, protesting his arrival seems like the cool thing to do. Just tell your teacher you’re practicing your First Amendment right to free speech and you’ll be all set.

5) Say ‘Screw it’ and remain under the influence until the last final
    Fake it ‘till you make it, my friend. Fake it ‘till you make it.

— Compiled by Flash Steinbeiser, feature editor, ansteinb@syr.edu