Any University of Arizona student who has experienced it firsthand knows that spending summer break in the town of Tucson feels like rubbing a cheese grater against your forehead. A cheese grater with a temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

However, many students will find themselves stranded in this horrible town for the summer months, whether it be due to summer classes, work, or drinking too much alcohol to the point where they have no idea where they are, let alone how to get home.

Spending the summer months in the same town as your university may seem like a fate worse than death, but it does not have to be all bad. The UA campus becomes nothing but a bleak, empty wasteland this time of year with little to no signs of life across its vast campus. So, those of us still in town should take advantage of all the things we would never be able to do during the school year, when obnoxious students are constantly stumbling to class.

An empty campus means total and complete freedom. First of all, you can use any bathroom on campus whatsoever. Is your favorite stall in the Student Union constantly unavailable? If so, make sure to take advantage this summer and reclaim your preferred porcelain throne. Everyone knows the Student Union Ballroom has the nicest bathrooms on campus since important people have meetings there and they deserve supreme comfort when doing their business. You may have felt unworthy of these glorious toilets before, but not now. Using these bathrooms gives you a feeling of satisfaction similar to, I would assume, graduating from college or landing your dream job.

On-campus eateries are usually dead too during the summer, which means you can walk up to Chick-fil-A at 12 p.m. sharp and buy a not that great chicken sandwich without having to fight through the line of bloodthirsty freshmen that would be there on a regular school day.

It gets pretty hot during the summer, so if you find yourself nearby UA why not take a dip in the famous Old Main fountain in order to cool down. Not only will you be refreshed and rejuvenated, but you will also get to bond with this year’s graduating class, who all recently took obnoxious graduation pictures posing in the fountain and many of whose bodily fluids are probably still churning around in there.

The only summer days where the campus looks more like a university rather than a cemetery are freshman orientation days. On these days, you should share words of wisdom with incoming freshmen. Tell them how college will suck out their soul and make them feel helpless on a semi-regular basis with weekly mental breakdowns and frequent thoughts of dropping out. It’s never too early to prepare freshmen for what will surely become the worst years of their lives, so do not be afraid to crush their hopes and dreams now.

Summer in Tucson may seem like a drag, but you can beat it by taking full advantage of the unique opportunities that it provides. Make sure to do so, because before you know it summer will be over and campus will be bustling with life once again. Whether you find yourself giving warnings of impending doom to freshmen this summer or popping a squat in your favorite spot, make sure not to let the summer go to waste.