Having just come back from our own senior spring breaks, we’ve heard a lot of talk around campus about everyone else’s. Whether yours was incredible or awful, it’s fresh in your mind and fresh in ours. We’ve compiled a list (by grade level) of what makes for a good spring vacation.

The No. 16 Washington University women’s tennis went 5-1 over four days of play in Orlando, Fla. last weekend to improve to 8-2 on the yong season. “It was a successful week; we had the great weather we wanted,” head coach Kelly Stahlhuth said. “We had a lot of matches, which is what we needed. It was nice to spend a week together and gain more unity.

Playing 14 games in just 10 days, the Washington University softball team picked up 11 wins, securing second place in the University Athletic Association and its first win of the season over a ranked opponent in the process. Over spring break, the Bears traveled to Altamonte Springs, Fla., for the UAA tournament and faced four different UAA squads twice.

I was in the library this past Saturday. I was curled semi-comfortably in a grandma-colored chair in the southeast corner for two hours reading a book I ought to have finished earlier in the week. It was very quiet. Too quiet. With 110 pages down, I gave myself the normal reward of checking Facebook at the first floor computers. I walked past the library check out desk.

Spring break is typically fun, or relaxing, or just not long enough. Spring break isn’t typically inspiring, but mine was. I spent my break shadowing various arms of Great Circle, a collection of local social-work organizations devoted to educating and assisting children and families. After the first day, I was overwhelmed. By what? Partly by the new faces and names, partly by the extensive terminology of social work.