Spring Break
What to Binge-Watch this Spring Break
Check out some hidden TV gems that are as under-appreciated as the Quad and almost as entertaining as reading Chaucer out loud.
Flyby's Spring Break Reading List
As Harvard students, we’re expected to have a very sophisticated taste in literature. Unfortunately, Expos doesn’t give us much in terms of quality reading,unless watching Mean Girls to procrastinate counts as educational. To make your family think you’re actually learning at this premier academic institution, here are some books that you’ll enjoy reading and can talk about in front of your grandparents—sorry, that means 50 Shades is out.
Last-Minute Spring Break Plans
If you are anything like the rest of us at Flyby and procrastinated until now to plan spring break, don’t worry. We got you covered. Here are some cool last minute alternative spring break plans for you and your lazy friends.
Spring Break in Cuba
Students listen to Chad Olin talk about the planned spring break trip to Cuba, which involves learning about the culture and urban renewal efforts, as well as substantial interaction with Cubans.
Recipe: April Fools' Sushi
A student makes candy sushi in order to prank her friends on April Fools' Day.
Spring Break Postcard: Orbs in Cancun
I landed in Cancun ready to embrace a cliché. There were no plans except to set aside the haughty, critical coldness of Cambridge and indulge in that undergraduate tropical escape narrative that is Mexico for Spring Break.
Spring Break Postcard: Food in Ma Belly
My roommate decided to visit me at home in Philadelphia. It was frigid, and every day we ate sandwiches. My goal: that he would leave with a fuller stomach, significantly closer to heart disease, his face slick with oil.
Spring Break Postcard: Met-Cute
Perhaps If I had grown up in Michigan I would have fallen in love with the New York City skyline, the tops of buildings glimpsed in small square segments from a plane. But I lived commuting-distance from Manhattan, in a suburb where the stone walls of colonial pastures lined the road to the train station. And so I met the city from the ground up: the smooth blue of the Hudson to the raised tracks over Harlem, only then to the skyscrapers in the distance.
Spring Break Postcard: New York, N.Y.
Born to New Yorker parents and raised in Connecticut, I am not inspired by New York City to breathless wonder unlike the millions of tourists who visit every year.
Despite Crowds, Students Satisfied With Spring Break Dining
Students said they believed that the pilot program which kept the Dunster and Currier dining halls open during spring break should be continued, though they complained of overcrowding.
The Salt Lick
During spring break I visited The Salt Lick, a popular barbecue restaurant in Driftwood, Texas. Inside is a wood-fired pit where meat is kept warm after a long smoking process.
Not Quite Annenberg...
This is the brunch display at the hotel in Palm Beach, Florida that I stayed in over spring break.
Quincy Ivy
During spring break, I saw a lot of green emerge around campus. This ivy is just about to turn a corner.
Jester King Brewery
I also took a tour of Jester King Brewery in the outskirts of Austin, Texas. Their barrel room houses unique fermented beers that are undergoing an aging process.
80 Degrees and Humid
I started off spring break with a trip to Palm Beach, Florida with my friend. The hotel balcony overlooked the ocean, which was full of vacationers who were riding WaveRunners, paddle boarding, and swimming.
BBQ Around Back
For spring break I traveled to Austin, Texas, and found that barbecue was everywhere. While walking around the city one day I spotted this sign in front of a house.
Music in the Street
Music spills onto the sidewalk in Austin, Texas during the South by Southwest festival. This duo attracted a crowd one afternoon in the street.
The Ting Tings Play at South by Southwest
The Ting Tings reemerged this year at the South by Southwest music festival and gave an energetic performance at the Radio Day Stage at the Austin Convention Center.
Zella Day plays at SXSW
I thought Zella Day was brilliant as she performed her appropriately named song, “Hypnotic,” among others during a South by Southwest Music Festival showcase.
The Plain White T's at SXSW
I got to see the Plain White T’s play at a party during the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
Snapshots of Spring Break
From Texas to Italy, and Cambridge to Florida, Crimson photographers traveled across the country and the world during spring break. These are snapshots of what they saw.
Riders Against the Storm at SXSW
I also saw the local Austin group Riders Against the Storm close out the party during the South by Southwest festival.
Sock Monkey Slippers
During spring break, I spent the vast majority of my time in my sock monkey slippers.