Spring Break: Is it Party Time or Family Time?

No other season throughout the year has a break quite like spring. For school-age children, spring break embodies a weeklong breather from school. For some adults, they enjoy the daily company of their children, or perhaps they may take the week off from the workplace themselves to indulge in a family vacation. Some adults in Augusta, Georgia are often consumed during the spring break week by attending some little Golf Tournament called The Masters. But for college students as well as young adults in their early to mid twenties, spring break represents one thing and one thing only, a weeklong revelry.

Ever since the mid-1980’s, MTV has become synonymous with Spring Break by their weeklong televising of parties and events that occur throughout the spring break week. Throughout the years, MTV has set up cameras in a couple of Florida’s finest beaches such as Daytona Beach and Panama City Beach, and even more recently, MTV has graced the sands of Cancun, Mexico. Each year, young adults are open to the elements as their drinking binges and dance parties are viewed by millions of people. I haven’t actually watched MTV’s version of Spring Break in a while, but in years past, MTV would feature a trio of various college students and follow them throughout the week as their youthful transgressions are televised. Why someone would want that week of their life to become public entertainment is beyond me, but it goes to show you how mainstream Spring Break has become and how MTV has had a lot to do with it.