By: Annabelle Pan

Graphics Editor

We’re smack in the middle of the worst month in the year: March. It has 31 days, only one day off of break, and it’s the halfway point of the second semester. To make matters worse, March is both rainy and cold. Go one month back to February and it’s cold. One month forward to April and it’s rainy. But March has the worst of both. Clearly, March sucks. 

October is a similarly awful month for the same reasons. It’s yet another month with 31 days and only one day of school break. Halloween and Inktober are the only redeemable factors. October is slightly better than March but not by much.

July is arguably the best month. You get a whole month off of school with no homework, time to hang out with friends, and warm weather for the beach. Sure, it can get a bit too warm at times, but it’s a small price to pay for 31 days free of schoolwork. A runner-up for first place is June. You only have one week of school, and then it’s summer. Although that week is finals week, school ends earlier on those days, and Friday is off. In June, you can still walk around without sweating like a pig and enjoy the summer air instead of staying inside with the air conditioning on full-blast as many do in July. June would be the perfect month if finals weren’t the first thing.

Another good month for students is December. The only downsides are finals week and the cold weather. Otherwise, you get holiday after holiday, two weeks off of school and the end of the first semester. Suffering through the stress and pain of finals week is honestly worth it to reach winter break. With each December comes a new year with twelve more months of opportunities…at least, that’s how optimists think. As a pessimist, every new year seems to announce the continuation of school, an increase in stress, and more work, and that is precisely why January is not on my list of good months.

Although June and December are on opposite sides of the month spectrum, they are usually seen as the best months. Their existence balances out the terrible, long months of arduous work that are called March and October. All of the months scattered in between are mediocre, with their own pros and cons. 

Take February, for example. It’s cold and sometimes wet, and one of the months when everyone just seems to get sick one after another. You have the whole week off for Ski Week, but we don’t even get a President’s Day weekend anymore now that the holiday is merged with our week off. February is just a “meh” month. 

Out of all the summer months, August is the worst, but it’s still better than many other months of the year. You still have one or two weeks left of break, but with the start of the school year, you are thrown headfirst into another year of work, and each year just gets harder than the previous.