It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Tax season is over.

March Madness season is over. Eclipse season is over.

Hopefully earthquake season is over.

For you fans of baseball on the radio,

a legendary New York broadcasters last season is over.

John Sterling announced his retirement yesterday

in his 36th season of calling the Yankee games. But pollen season, along with baseball,

has definitely begun. So has deer tick and Lyme disease season. We'll talk about that in our

climate story of the week next hour. Campaign season is ramping up in its long crescendo to November,

and as of yesterday, intersecting with Trump

criminal trial season, which had its opening day. And we are in high season now for high school

seniors who applied to college and got accepted to choose a school. The deadline for accepting

your acceptance at lots of places is May 1st or thereabouts.

But this year, college selection season has gone weird.

It's weird for some because of the post-October 7th environment at some schools.

Anti-Semitism or anti-Muslim environments have some families uncertain about how welcoming or how safe or how much free speech there is

at the places they apply to enthusiastically in the fall.

And for many others, what might have been a joyous season of celebrating your acceptance

or your child's acceptance or your student's acceptance at the college of their choice

has turned into a season of high anxiety

because the federal government has messed up the rollout

of a new system for applying for financial aid.

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