After a miserable winter with frigid wind chills and lots of snow, it has finally happened – spring. It is poetic in its emergence with robins plucking worms out of the ground, early morning chirping, cool breezes that dry laundry on clotheslines, and the beauty of longer days pushing back early darkness.
It is a welcome medicine of sorts that gives sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) the sunshine that their brains so crave, and the homeless finally get a reprieve from the elements.
Spring is my time to clean the house from top to bottom; deep cleaning the winter’s effects on the windows, siding and floors. I feel fresh, renewed and invigorated.
But despite the blossoming tulips and tempting temperatures, there is a darker side to spring that we don’t care to acknowledge; tornadoes, flooding, allergies, thunderstorms, and the awakening of the insect world – bees and mosquitoes. For some, the emergence of bees is a cause to stay indoors.
Probably the best reason for a college student to welcome spring is the realization that the school year is winding down, and summer vacation is in the planning. Spring is our reward for living through another Wisconsin winter.
Whatever your feeling toward spring is, you can’t argue the fact that it creates quite a stir; Mequon campus students all have their own ideas to the question,  “What does spring mean to you?”

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