<p>This year, D is coming home (on frequent flyer points). She said all she wants to do is sleep. I have no objection if she wanted to take a trip for Spring Break, as long as she paid for it herself. We are already overextended just paying for tuition, etc. But she has an interview tomorrow for a very well paid campus job for next school year - so maybe next year will be the year she gets to travel!</p>
<p>A few years ago when I was advising a sorority chapter, the chapter president could not pay her bill to remain a member because her father had lost his job. I applied for and got her an emergency grant from our national Foundation so she could continue as chapter president.</p>
<p>Instead of applying the grant to her bill from the sorority, she used it to go to Cancun on spring break. I found out a month later and removed her from office and revoked her membership. If she wants to be reinstated as an alumna, she has to pay the grant back plus the fees she would have paid to finish out her collegiate membership. That incident will stick with me for a long time.</p>
<p>I may be wanted criminal in Boga Chita, MS. Drove to New Orleans for spring break in 1975 with four sorority sisters–one of whom lived in NO. Got a speeding ticket in that little town on the way home, but the officer wrote down the wrong make of my car and the wrong state of my license plate. I never paid the fine.</p>
<p>So I guess your MS crime spree occured when your name was “youngernaieversis.” ;)</p>
<p>DD spent half her break in her apartment getting some work done. Then she and a few friends went to Mardi Gras for a few days. They did it on the cheap, driving, staying with friends or relatives, taking food for cooking in. I have no probelm with a little time off in spring of senior year before graduating.</p>
<p>We are going as a family to the Carribean, sailing and relaxing for a week. We have always done a family spring break trip. I figure crazyson won’t want to spend many more spring breaks with us, so I am glad he jumped on this trip.</p>
<p>I am going home to sleep. While on break I have some family obligations (my grandmother’s 70th birthday party mainly) and then a couple doctor appointments. I just want some time not to do anything school related. I was planning on working on my final project for my field production course but I’ll probably just make a plan at this point. </p>
<p>Some of my friends are going to Myrtle Beach (blegh) and one is going on a school sponsored trip to London.</p>
<p>High on the priority list for Spring Break – S2 and I taking root on the couch to watch the first rounds of March Madness. Also an annual tradition. :)</p>
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<p>That reminds me. My D will be reading War and Peace, from start to finish, for her class :)</p>
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I don’t know what other kinds of spring breaks you’re talking about, but my d’s ws pretty cheap - 4 girls sharing a room at the resort, low price planes. She’s more than 400 miles away; given current gas prices, it would have cost just about as much for her to come home!</p>
<p>Besides, she’s a senior; this will be the last “spring break” she’s going to get. And no, she’s not going to school on the taxpayer’s dime. </p>
<p>So please stop counting my money, and I won’t count yours, OK?</p>
<p>DS is going to visit some friends at Texas Tech (who are still in school), then heading home for a few days. Fingers crossed for no flight delays coming or going!</p>
<p>Me!!! Me!!! I’ve got one of those globe-trotting low-life need-based aid kids heading for Frivoloustown! My kid is getting need-based (private) grant aid (and federal loans) and she’s going to Mardi Gras this week-end. And it’s not even Spring Break! (I’m not sure they even get Spring Break. Hmmm.) </p>
<p>Then again, the kid earned all the money for the strap-you-to-the-wing airfare and sardine can lodging by caring for a child with epilepsy one or two days a week (while attending med school full-time) so…don’t hate on her too much. 
Her (and our) budget wouldn’t have allowed it without the extra dinero.</p>
<p>(Should be a blast. She has a bunch of her current classmates meeting up with the “seemingly non-random boy” , her sorority little sister, and a bunch of her UG friends at the same hotel in New Orleans.)</p>
<p>Freshman S is coming home. Will probably spend some time with his HS science team, and if any of his HS classmates are home at the same time they’ll get together too.</p>
<p>D is a junior and also came home freshman year. As a soph, she went to Chicago for spring break - a 6 hour bus ride from school - and stayed with friends from HS who are in college there and with friends from college who went to their homes for spring break. Her big splurge was to see “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” which she had been wanting to do for years. She funded this trip with her earnings from the previous summer. It didn’t require much funding. This year she is going on a “road trip” with her roommate who has a car at school. I think they plan a meandering trip from there to home (which is a 20 hour drive if you do a straight shot) over the course of a week, a couple days here, and a quick drive back there. They may have to pay for hostels or cheap motels en route. She’ll be funding this one with some of last summer’s earnings. I’m not thrilled about it because I’ll worry about her being on the road the whole time, but I guess she’s grown up enough to do it and I’ll just have to deal with being worried.</p>
<p>I am personally not in favor of the stereotypical spring break trip to an alcohol soaked resort in the sun, and since neither of my kids could afford that on their own and wouldn’t dream of asking their parents to fund it, I don’t think it will come up in our family. That said, what’s right for my family might not be right for yours, and vice versa.</p>
<p>That non-random boy has been around a while, Curm! 
Glad to hear the Mudgette has time to enjoy life despite being a 1M.</p>
<p>curmudgeon - sounds like fun! I wish I were going to Mardi Gras!!!</p>
<p>S is coming home. Our HS usually doesn’t get a spring break due to snow days, so he won’t really know the difference. We take family vacations in the summer.</p>
<p>He didn’t ask for a trip, but I would have helped pay. His needing a vacation isn’t any different than me needing a vacation.</p>
<p>We’re private pay too. - how do kids use loan/grant money for trips when it is all based on the COA figure the school gives out? You can’t borrow/receive any extra that I know of…</p>
<p>D is coming home. Completely exhuasted. I expect her to sleep much of the week, frankly. She’s been incredibly overbooked this year and it seems as if she never gets a minute.</p>
<p>Not that I have a thing against kids going to spring break. I’m a big fan of the service project over spring, which can be quite fun, too.</p>
<p>I’m wayyyyy more frightened of mexico than Israel. When the kids go to Isreal to do a project, they are very protected and precautions are definitely taken. JMO</p>
<p>DS is coming home, looking forward to a non-working break! Too bad his break doesn’t coincide with the high school one…</p>
<p>My daughter goes with her lacrosse team somewhere every spring break to play a few early season games in better weather than Ohio has to offer right now. This year they’re headed to California, last year it was Portland, Oregon and the year before was Colorado. We pay about five hundred bucks, it’s supervised and we don’t have to worry about much of anything. Love it!</p>
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<p>Laredo Texas? The center of the Mexican Drug war between cartels? I would HIGHLY suggest that you restrict your kid from going there.</p>
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<p>Mine too – which means she’s spending break at home :)</p>