Oh fall.

The cool winds are blowing, the sweaters come out, white girls are taking photos with their rose gold Iphones out, and everything around us is dying a slow few months death.

Fall, for whatever reason, is considered the greatest season by many people, and I disagree, for many reasons. From everything dying, to the crass one or two holidays that fall has, to the start of school and what fall embodies as a whole, fall is just the worst.

With fall comes the start of school. The fun times are over, three months of joy stopped abruptly and temperatures drop to a weird fluctuation between 70 and 40 degrees. School has its benefits, but the negatives weigh it down in the minds of almost any rational being. How could someone love fall after the best season, summer, finally ends? It’s a leap from best to worst, and it’s marked by school beginning.

The other thing that is horrid about fall is that everything around us is crippling and dying. Sure, the trees might look cool for a month as the leaves turn from green to orange and brown, but I see the death of the leaves as more of a somber thing than a lively one. Regardless, the benefit of trees looking cool for a few weeks is destroyed by the annoyance of having leaves everywhere.

Leaves, once on the ground are just a pain. They blow through the wind and get stuck on your car with the light morning dew that’s left because the weather is confused on what temperature it should be. Not to mention the struggles of picking all of those leaves up; otherwise your yard looks awful.

Holidays in the fall do not surmount to the holidays in other seasons. Winter has the giving and receiving holidays and New Years, spring has spring break and Memorial Day (Memorial Day being particularly important to me because that is when the NCAA Lacrosse Championship is played), and summer is a holiday within itself. It’s three whole months of good weather and leisure.

All that fall has is Halloween, a holiday that is supposed to ward off evil spirits by wearing scary masks, and Thanksgiving break. Although spring break and Thanksgiving break are the same length, spring break is better for one huge reason: weather. During Thanksgiving break it begins to get just cold enough outside to actually hurt your skin if you’re not wearing a jacket. So you are stuck inside listening to your parents listen to Fox News rant about the war on Christmas or whatever other nonexistent fear-mongering problem they are talking about.
Fall is the worst, so rather than try to make it sound like it’s a fun time, I think we should all just accept its faults and agree that it’s awful.