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J.P. Bowgen
Mike Mallazzo
Northwestern Guy
Ben Shartar
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The clichéd college spring break entails lots of drinking and partying at some tropical destination. But what inevitably comes with that? Spring break hookups. Wherever you are, there is opportunity to find a spring fling.
While some may not like the impersonal one-night stand, my advice is to give it a shot. It is called a one-night stand for a reason. Spring break will come around four times in your college career, so deviate from the norm every once in a while. We all know that the best stories from college come from these next couple weeks.
Just be smart about it. While hooking up over break can be exhilarating, it can also create serious drama. Bad decisions become even worse when there are no strings attached, so be smart about whom you hook up with. Don’t step on any toes—make sure there aren’t boyfriends/girlfriends involved before acting. You don’t want to get back to college on someone’s shit list. But trust me when I say the risk is worth the reward.
This precious week give students a chance to blow off some steam. It’s been a long haul getting to this point and there will surely be another long haul to follow. So let loose, go nuts, have a little fun. Summer is right around the corner. Give yourself a little preview of what three months has to offer. That one-night stand could result in another good night.
Spring break is about having fun, in any sense of the word. Maybe rekindle an old high school flame or reach out to someone you had your eye on. Spring break hookups come in all shapes and sizes. You never know what people will be up for after two quarters of college.
Get yourself out there. Go to that extra party and meet that extra person. It isn’t wrong to make a bad decision every once in a while. It makes life all the more exciting—just maybe not the next morning. It’s a combination of things that gives you that sinking feeling in your stomach. Maybe it’s the alcohol; maybe it’s the array of drunken texts from the night before.
Mistakes are inevitable and spring break is the ideal time to make them. Whoever you hookup with will only be in your life for a little less than two weeks. So don’t dwell on whatever mistakes you make but be prepared to hear laughter when you ask what happened last night. Just learn from your spring break mistake and try a different approach next year.
And for those of you that don’t have any spring romances, get excited to return to school. While the workload may suck, there will surely be hilarious stories from spring break. Bad decisions are a part of life, but no one said that we couldn’t laugh at other peoples’ spring misfortune—that is, if it isn’t too serious.
Go to the next page for Mike’s bro blog!
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Happy Spring Break Ladies,
From the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank all of my fabulous readers for making the bro blog the most read publication on hercampus.com one day last week. As I have said many times in my articles, you are all beautiful people and I love you all. If you’re a fan of this blog, be sure to follow my newly created twitter (@mallazzo) for more of the best boyish advice.
But I digress. It’s that magical time of year when fist pumping like a champ and doing shots of tequila at 9 A.M. is not only socially acceptable, but encouraged. Spring Break! However, please remember that what happens in Cabo or Miami does not necessarily stay there. Remember, someone woke up one morning as the father of Snooki’s child. That said, if done responsibly spring break can produce an epic hook-up and you can be the cool aunt (see my PDA article) that tells your nieces the infamous one time in Tijuana story.
First off, even though many of your friends may be going on “alternative” spring break trips to rebuild houses in Mississippi, work at clinics in Detroit or take down military dictators in Uganda, you have no reason to feel guilty if you’re just hitting the beach and the bar for a week. You work hard during the school year and you deserve to have good, clean, American fun. However, if this fun includes chasing after the guy with the Channing Tatum abs, understand that this is a quick fling and shouldn’t be extended when you go back to the real world. You may find a cute hook-up poolside in Puerto Rico after six daiquiris but you should be sure to say your goodbyes over a last margarita at the airport. This way, you’ll never find out that your boy toy isn’t in law school at NYU and is simply a mam’s boy from New Jersey whose most exciting prospect in life is his new haircut.
If you are doing the whole service thing, this does not mean that you have sacrificed the opportunity for a spring break hook-up. As a matter of fact, it has been scientifically proven by me that the hottest relationships start on spring break service sites. Unlike the Puerto Rico hook-up, the service trip romance is one worth continuing as true chemistry and appreciation for another person is found when you both have a BAC of 0.00 and are impacting positive change on a neighborhood. In addition, many girls erroneously believe that guys will not find them attractive when they are sweaty and wearing work cloths but this is an irrational worry. Ladies, you do not realize how hot you are when you are working with power tools. A good looking girl confidently wielding a hammer is every bit as hot as a girl in a skanky club outfit in Mexico and is sure to garner an equal amount of male attention.
In a nutshell, no matter what your spring break plans are, the bro blog just hopes you have a great week away from the intensity of college life. If you return rested, rejuvenated, and not carrying the Situation’s child, I would call spring break a smashing success
Don’t forget to follow me on twitter (@mallazzo),
Mike
Read what “Northwestern Guy” has to say about Spring Break Hookups!
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Hello to the lovely readers of the Bro Blog. First off, thank you for all the attention you’ve given us, so much that the Bro Blog was the #1 read article on the entire Her Campus site for a while last week (and boosting our egos in the meantime). It’s fucking Spring Break, and why’s this such a big deal? Because Spring Break done correctly is a combination of “Project X” and “Piranha.” More specifically, it’s a 24/7 bender of sexual conquest, hard partying, and giving absolutely zero fucks.
Now those three aspects aren’t in the correct order. In reality, spring break is about partying hard, which after consuming enough beverages leads to giving zero fucks, which then leads to the relentless pursuit of your preferred sex. But what happens once you hook up with someone on spring break? Is it a Vegas situation where it never occurs again? Do you become “involved” with this person for the rest of the break? The answer is it depends. Let me explain from the male perspective.
To lay out the context, you met her on spring break, she hooked up with you fast and she’s down to do it again. By all means go ahead and do it again, but you gotta remember that if she hooked up with you fast, she’s also willing to hook up with other guys fast. You aren’t special so get that thought out of your mind right now. This is the cesspool called spring break, there is no sense of decency. I love it when one of my friends starts to get involved with some girl who has a promiscuous reputation, and then is crushed when she hooks up with someone else. It’s like, no shit Sherlock, if it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, it’s probably a dog. DO NOT get tunnel vision (aka locked on one person) during Spring Break. It’s unlikely you’re ever going to see that Tennessee girl again so you have to assume she thinks the same and therefore not trying to make something out of a spring break hookup either.
All that being said, this is never a Vegas situation (meaning what happens on Spring Break stays on Spring Break). You might have had a great time with Tennessee girl, but at the same time you’re both in college and not looking to get into a, dare I say it, long distance relationship. So what you do is get her number, let her know you had fun, and tell her to text you if she’s ever in town. After that, just keep a tab on her. Send her a FB message every once in a while to stay relevant in her mind. You never know, she might be traversing up to Chicago with her friends and hits you up. Those are always pleasant surprises.
Well, that’s spring break hook ups in a nutshell. In short, always play for “Team I.” Spring Break is the time to be concerned with nothing else but having fun and inevitably, being a little bit selfish. Have a wild Spring Break, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.
Curious who “Northwestern Guy” is? Check out his profile… maybe you can figure it out!
Ben’s got something to say… keep going!!!
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Ahhh Spring Break. A chance for boys and girls alike to head to somewhere far away from home, get wasted and hook up in tropical locations that most people would agree is pretty awesome. A time when a man holding a brightly colored fruity drink with a umbrella is socially acceptable. A time…for raging. A time of the bro. Well that is how it is at state schools at least. We at Northwestern…are a a bit different. We follow our own rules, that is why I am here, and I presume why you are reading this. I have so graciously decided to lend you my guidance to the rules and advice for spring break hook ups as well as life in general. Gather around children and let me drop some knowledge on you right quick.
Three words: Go for it. Hook ups are fun, I recommend it, go nuts. However I have a couple more words to add. If you are in a committed and monogamous relationship, I would not recommend it. Generally the other half does not take it too well. Apparently it is what some call cheating? More like winning if you ask me! (disclaimer: this is not my actual opinion, do not hate). For all you single people out there, go crazy. Get drunk, make mistakes, hook up to your hearts desire. But remember one thing: just because you want to hook up does not mean other people will want to hook up with you. Just because it gets easier during spring break does not mean you do not still have to try. As the majestic Wayne Gretzkey once spoke, “you miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
There is something I have realized on my breaks. Northwesterners are kinda weird. We are the top 10% of our high school classes, we are fairly well educated, and by most standards, our social scene is pretty bizarre. Maybe we studied too hard and forgot to learn how to socialize, or maybe we are just kinda awkward. I came to this realization when I went out to a bar back in Atlanta wearing a Star Wars T-shirt (and a nice one too) only to get a weird glare from clearly bleached blonde girl who in height and skin tone looked fairly identical to an Oompa Loompa. I know it might surprise you, but some girls/guys cannot carry on intelligent conversations. I have tried. Many times. If you bring up the Kardashians multiple times in a night, I will just walk away. One of the more unattractive things to me is when I make several relevant and educated remarks, only to be greeted by blank stares that indicate a lack of understanding. Also, I hate it when they don’t laugh at my jokes. I am funny! They just don’t get my humor. Anyways…to be honest, maybe I have forgotten how to socialize outside of the Northwestern college environment. All those annoying and not too smart jocks and plastics we left behind in high school, well they still exist, and many of them are still not too fond of people of the geeky and nerdy variety. Quite often, towards the end of breaks I will miss the sweet embrace of TKOE’s social scene and the familiar feeling of frat parties. Hell, I even miss the late night conversations at the library during reading week. But I realize that I am ranting a bit and now I return back to the topic for my elegantly eloquent summation!
As I said: go for it and try and hookup all you want. The potential is there, embrace it. However, I recommend leaving the cute social awkwardness and the intelligent remarks on campus. Leave Nerdwestern behind and embrace Northwasted. Go wild and have a great spring break. As I leave you to your spring break mischief, I will impart a quote that has stuck with me my entire life and whose meaning has changed just as much as I have. As my favorite childhood educator Miss Frizzle liked to say: “Take chances. Make mistakes. Get messy!” If you interpreted this with dirty connotations, that is completely acceptable, perhaps even encouraged. Frat hard my friends.