Living on campus is very convenient during the fall and spring semesters. You can walk to classes, you get to see your friends all the time since they also live on campus, and there's never ending entertainment within your grasp because there's so many people around town. You may think that this would remain the same all year around, since during the regular school semesters the party seems to never stop. Though it may start out like that, it certainly doesn't keep up. There are several stages of change as the summer drags on when you live on campus:
1. PARTY
In light of you and your friends finishing finals, you decide to get together for one final fun filled night before everyone either goes home for a couple weeks or the entire summer. It seems as if everyone else may have had the same idea since there are so many people out on the town.
2. Feeling like you should actually be in class or doing homework
All your friends went home, but you still see people on campus with backpacks. You start having a weird feeling that maybe you too should still be in class, or maybe you had some unidentified final that you forgot you had because you neglected to read the ~syllabus~
3. Wait, where's everyone at?
About two weeks after the semester ends, the campus has become a shell of what it once was. There are only a few people walking around. Nightlife is virtually nonexistent. You're left wondering why so many people left, or if you just imagined all the people who used to walk these now-lonely streets.
4. Realizing you have pretty much nothing to do.
Nothing will ever fill the void of multiple classes, hours of homework, and extracurriculars leave in your life. You might try to fill it will a job, but you still have that time you just sit at home wondering what to do because there's no essays to write or physics problems to cry over. You love it, but you get bored easily.
5. Frustration due to construction
You spend one day in at your place and the next thing you know, half the entire city is blocked off due to construction. You have to rely on Google Maps now to get to the grocery store, so you don't end up driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
6. Freshman orientation groups time
You become a pro at spotting freshman within this time period because they are everywhere. You can even go to the most obscure part of campus and see a couple lost freshmen in nice clothes, wandering around, looking for the bookstore. You fondly remember your registration day and the people you met, but couldn't be happier to have at least one year down.
6. When does fall semester start?
You eventually start missing all the things regular semesters have to offer. You think about how awesome it is to see campus bustling with all kinds of people, how easy it is to walk around without construction, and learning about what you're most passionate about. You start counting down the days to when everyone comes back to school and classes start.
