We hope this Staff Editorial can serve as a reminder that this winter break, all students deserve to take time to rest and acknowledge everything they’ve accomplished this past semester.

Now, when I pass students hurrying to class, I do recognize more faces and give a friendly nod or wave. But I also hardly glance at the people I don’t already know.

Within two weeks of being here, campaign posters for College Council elections saturated my dormitory. A few weeks later, event invitations to elect Freshman Class Council members littered my Facebook and bombarded my notifications. How were students who had been at a school for less than a month already investing themselves so heavily in vying for extracurricular positions?

Though classes have drawn to a close, students gathered in the Danforth University Center to learn new skills ranging from break dance to DJing to lotion-making as part of Skillshare Sunday. The event was put together by the Skillshare Collective—a collection of student groups including Sharing With A Purpose (SWAP), Kuumba and the Washington University Cooperative.

On Friday at 1 p.m. in the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden, approximately 20 confused students met for the first time after following the cryptic instructions left on covered Washington University icons: the South 40’s Clocktower and the statue of George Washington outside of the Olin library. With strange questions like “Where are you going?