Summer, what a beautiful concept. Beaches, little umbrella drinks, no cares in the world.

Unless you're living in your college town for the summer. Try living in a college town with three colleges. It's no longer a college town. It's a ghost town. No longer do you see dozens of parking stickers you recognize. Instead, all you see are empty parking lots, empty roads. Practically everything is easier now because you're fighting 7,000+ fewer people.

Likely if you're living in your college town for the summer, it's for a job, or in my case, two jobs. One of those jobs being on campus.

Did you know that there are probably little kids running around on your campus right now? Staying in your college dorm rooms?

Its true.

It never crossed my mind that the campus center could get louder than when 2,500 freshman and sophomores are trying to get lunch after chapel.

But I was wrong. So so wrong.

The echoing, reverberating sound of 100 elementary aged children waiting to get lunch in the World Famous Bean is the stuff of nightmares. So much screaming and such high pitched voices. It will bring the grandma out of you, I swear it will.

"Outside voices belong outside", I think to myself as the mind numbing noise continues.

I don't know what's worse. The thunderous sound of their cheering for food, or the eerie silence that follows when they leave.

Trying to leave for lunch? Imagine trying to get through a pack of 8 yr olds. It is definitely worse than weaving your way through college students.

The other day I tried to use the campus center bathroom. Children don't understand the sacred space of a stall. I had a child come to the stall I was occupying and yell "This one already has someone in it." I cringe at the mere memory.

I love children. I work with kids every summer. I'm working with middle school girls this summer in fact.

When you mix kids with space you previously only associated with students and professors?

It's weird. It feels wrong.

I haven't even attempted to visit the campus Starbucks. I already know what that's like when middle schoolers and high school students are visiting campus for competitions.

Not today Satan. Not today.

(Please note, I am not against camps on campus, I just couldn't help but bring a little humor to the situation in the only way I know how).