Summer. The season for beaches, sunshine and for college students across the nation: nostalgia. Months of wishing for summer are erased in just a few short weeks as students start to miss their friends and all the joys that accompany the stress of being at school. When you go to Baldwin Wallace, there's a lot to miss. Here are just a few of the things every Yellow Jacket is missing this summer.
1. Coe Lake in fall.
The beautiful colors of the changing leaves are almost enough to make you forget the brutal Ohio winter that's just around the corner.
2. Sending the token "Back in Berea" Snapchat to all your friends as soon as you get back on campus.
Because if you don't put it on your story, did it really happen?
3. Cyber dates.
Whether you're there for pre-meeting coffee, vent session coffee, or just to satisfy your ice cream craving, dates in the Cyber are a must for any functioning BW student.
4. "Studying" in the cyber.
Speaking of the cyber, any true YJ4L misses going to "study" in the cyber, which really just means pretending to study until you happen to see someone you know and strike up a conversation. A conversation that may or may not carry on for an hour or more, at which point there's really no point in studying any more since it's time for dinner.
5. Being able to Swipe things.
Because Swipe money is totally not real money, right?
6. Ordering Domino's for those nights when campus food just won't cut it.
"Just one more time," you tell yourself on your third Domino's night in a row. Don't forget the cinnamon sticks.
7. Using "Aww, Jackets!" in any sarcastic context possible.
It's out of love, we swear.
8. Going on Sheetz or Sonic runs with your best friends.
There's just something magical about driving through the quiet, wooded roads of Berea to a glowing paradise of fast food, you know? Plus those mac and cheese bites are unbelievable.
9. Five o'clock dinners.
If you're involved in Greek life—ahem, I mean fraternity and sorority life—then 5 p.m. dinners are a ritual you know must be upheld. Sure, it may put you in the same category as your grandparents when it comes to meal times but there's something grounding about seeing your non-biological family at the same time every evening.
10. BW squirrels.
Along with Stinger, these cute little critters are basically BW's mascot.
11. Your home away from home.
Because at the end of the day, you just really miss home.
