Love is springing everywhere on campus. Anywhere you look, new relationships bud up, such as on the Quad. It’s where new couples, non-couples and couples of couples lie on one another’s bellies, hold hands, tickle each other’s toes with dandelions and pick out penis-shaped clouds in the sky.

It extends off campus on porches, too, where neighbors hang out, chug beers and spin their foreheads around a hollow toy bat. Heck, it’s even in the classroom, where professors see their students smile at them for the first time all semester, where they finally decide to release students early to enjoy the beautiful day.

Spring is the one time in which us girls are actually distinguishable. We should use this as the opportunity to show guys that we do, indeed, have our own individual styles. Contrary to popular belief, we don’t actually dress in the same thing every single day, and now’s the time to prove it.

So out come the skirts and dresses, and the short-shorts that we’ve worked so hard all year to fit into. It feels good to walk around campus, showing off those tan and toned legs. You could always wear jeans, but what guy is going to check you out in pants when other ladies’ skirts are a flight risk? Ladies, now is the time to show Syracuse just what you’ve been hiding these past winter months.

But guys, you don’t have it super easy, either. Springtime means cutoffs — aka those weird tattoos will be exposed — an inhuman amount of freckles and (god willing) arm muscles. Guys should be extra certain to bulk up in these final fleeting weeks of the semester. Think of it as a warm-up for beach season.

A great part about spring is that everyone is finally happy. When students aren’t suffering from seasonal depression, they feel free to push the flirtation limits with members of the opposite sex. Guys might be able to grab a booty or two without offending the ladies, and ladies might be able to get with an extra guy or two without causing too much turmoil. Because really, who can be seriously upset under the sun?

Springtime means it’s almost summertime, which means it’s almost time to be reunited with our girlfriend who’s abroad or our boyfriend who goes to another school. Feel free to start giving the cold shoulder to that clinger who just won’t give us the space we well deserve.

But what’s arguably the greatest part about spring? Perhaps that everyone looks better when tan. And, of course, that everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

Talia Pollock is a junior television, radio and film major. Her favorite part about spring is enduring cold mornings in flip-flops in order to be comfortable in the warm afternoons. She can be reached at tpollock@syr.edu.

Published on April 12, 2010 at 12:00 pm