After enduring endless midterms and Pittsburgh’s strange, irregular weather, students traveled all around the world for spring break this year.

Home is difficult and shocking, but it’s where we grow. My life in my old home is finished. None remains but old memories, preserved for me to walk through like a museum. Labels hang on each and every door — one reads, “Mall Food Court (2017-2021) / Remember that one time?”

In this edition of Fresh Perspective, Julia Smeltzer reminds you to enjoy your spring break and take the time to unwind.

Students, we know you’re tired of the semester, but thankfully spring break kicks off on March 5. All you need to do is power through this week and you’re free… well, at least for seven days.  You absolutely deserve a break, but where you spend that time definitely says something about you — but what? Let’s take a look. 

As COVID-19 cases continue to steadily decline in the U.S., spring break trips were safer this year. Capped off with nine inches of snowfall in the Pittsburgh area, students returned from heat and humidity to bitter cold and snowy streets.

This spring break marks two years since Pitt’s in-person classes ended with an unceremonious email telling students not to come back to campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

If Pitt wants to actually give us a break they should require that no one assigns work.

With spring break quickly approaching and COVID-19 cases on campus dropping, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said Pitt will follow the same guidelines as it did over Thanksgiving break. Pitt will require...

Students celebrated the first Self-Care Day of the semester last Tuesday. Students got one Self-Care Day last semester in October. Following a request from Student Government Board President Eric Macadangdang, students were given two Self-Care Days this semester — with the next one on March 24 — after spring break was cancelled.

Here are four of the strategies I used to keep my last spring break trip as cheap as possible.