Spring Break is a time for wet T-shirt contests, road trips and women and men alike to go wild. It’s an opportunity to spend all of your money on postcards you will never remember to send and knickknacks that will break before you get out of the store. Spring Break is also a chance to torture unsuspecting family and friends with countless photographs of you posing with the largest paper clip in Nowheresville, USA. For anyone interested in slathering on the sunscreen and discovering sand in places you never knew you had, Life & Style’s Travel section lists the top 10 Spring Break destinations, as of March 4, as: Miami; Cancun, Mexico; Daytona, Fla.; San Jose Cabo, Mexico; the Bahamas; Key West, Fla.; Jamaica; Acapulco; Panama City, Fla. and South Padre Island. Perhaps the compilers of this list have a phobia of skiing.

What are the top 10 worst places to go on Spring Break? According to one post on a Yahoo! Message board, “My mother’s house, my Aunt Sally’s nursing home, KFC, the bathroom after a Mexican meal, a telephone booth, Costco, the post office, a Barry Manilow concert, Antarctica and Baghdad.”

If you are procrastinator and Spring Break planning is stressing you out, studentcity.com, “the ultimate Spring Break experience,” offers an aid for pricing your trip, various party packages, information about hotels, exclusive savings on airfare, details about MTV casting calls and photos, videos and testimonials from students about their Spring Breaks.

Paradiseparties.com and Springbreakdirect.com provide similar services.

The beach is not your only option. After all, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. There are always charities looking for volunteers. Or, you could catch up on homework. The fact that you haven’t opened a textbook since the beginning of freshman year doesn’t mean you’re a lost cause. Of course, there is always that elusive creature known as “sleep.