{"id":1142,"date":"2013-04-22T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2013-04-21T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T16:05:41","slug":"abby-why-hello-there-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/04\/22\/abby-why-hello-there-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby: Why Hello There, Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Finally the weather is nice and I don\u2019t have to wear so many layers outside.\u00a0 There are no more piles of snow lingering under shaded tress or piled in the corner of parking lots.\u00a0 I just love seeing so many people laying on the COM lawn or playing Frisbee on the BU Beach.\u00a0 This is the first actual spring I have ever experienced.\u00a0 Growing up in Florida it was summer pretty much all year round with an occasional week or two in February when the weather wasn\u2019t as humid as usual (but still hot) and all of the pollen fell from the trees.\u00a0 I never got the purpose of spring, but now after almost 6 months of temperatures below 30 in Boston, I GET IT! You wake up every morning and the sun is actually shinning (okay so this has to do more with day light savings then the season, but still.)\u00a0 The walk from West to East campus doesn\u2019t seem as long because blooming flowers and not your fingers freezing distract you.\u00a0 This weather is making me miss home a little bit so I decided to try to spend more time outside.\u00a0 At first this proved difficult because I either couldn\u2019t find enough time or I would finally sit down and it would promptly start raining.\u00a0 So I have some tips to making the most of your outside time in Boston.<\/p>\n

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  1. Check the weather. Seriously. And not just the night before but in the morning too.\u00a0 Everyone gave me this tip when I first moved here and I did not take them seriously, but now I know that wasn\u2019t just a ploy to make me download The Weather Channel app.<\/li>\n
  2. Bring a blanket.\u00a0 Nothing is worse then finding the perfect patch of sun peeking through the trees to find out it is also the perfect patch of mud.<\/li>\n
  3. Grab something to drink.\u00a0 I swear the Starbucks on campus have multiplied and now we have a new Jamba Juice as well.\u00a0 Also, there are bottle-filling stations all over the GSU and in Marciano Commons.<\/li>\n
  4. Keep track of time.\u00a0 Laying outside is nice and relaxing but you don\u2019t want to get so relaxed you forget about your next class or you fall asleep and wake up with a sunburn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Finally the weather is nice and I don\u2019t have to wear so many layers outside.\u00a0 There are no more piles of snow lingering under shaded tress or piled in the corner of parking lots.\u00a0 I just love seeing so many people laying on the COM lawn or playing Frisbee on the BU Beach.\u00a0 This is … Continue reading Abby: Why Hello There, Spring!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44302,3892,257,7270],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}