I don’t know about the rest of you, but I spent MY fall break in south Florida, at the beach, soaking up the rays (not really. Well I was in Florida, but I am incapable of soaking up rays of any sort). That’s great and all, but there is nothing quite like the joy of Autumn in North Carolina. I know, I know, it’s still reaching highs of eighty degrees most days at Duke, but I promise, soon enough, it will be nice and chilly and you will finally be able to break out your cozy knits and oversized sweaters. More importantly, the fall season means a few exciting things:
– North Carolina State Fair. Get out of the Duke bubble and check out a festival celebrating all that is wonderful about North Carolina! I know you’re in between midterms, so you have no excuse NOT to celebrate living in such an awesome state.
– Specialty drinks. If you’re on East, hit up Trinity. West? Check out Twinnies/The Tower. A lot of these places will offer specialty drinks for fall, and given that most of them involve apples or pumpkins, you should definitely take advantage of their somewhat short-lived presence on campus.
– HALLOWEEN. For me, Halloween means taking a lot of pictures of people dressed in crazy things, and/or pretending to be a child and scooping up a bucket load of free (hopefully not tampered with) candy. For you, Halloween can mean cute dorm room decorations, unique and fun costumes to parade around in, and taking advantage of the after-Halloween candy sales. In short, Halloween is fun. Unless of course, you are unfortunate enough to have a Neuroscience 101 midterm on November 1st. If that’s the case, party extra hard right after that exam. In costume. I promise not to judge.
So yeah. While the beach is great and all (and if you’re anything like me, you appreciate the sun’s improvement to your ghostly pale legs), autumn in Durham is a thousand times better. Take advantage of it, because it’ll soon be winter, and that will open the doors for a whole new list of things to celebrate!