1. You’ll continue to go to your favorite bars
You may not have all of your friends from the school year, but at least you have Red Lion, Kam’s, and Joe’s to fix that.
2. Senior Land
As soon as summer begins, we need a place to live. For those of you that are sophomores, you're forced to move out of the house and sublease from either graduating seniors or friends that live out of the house. What better place than Senior Land?
3. Summer classes are a lot more chill
Whether you’re taking classes at UIUC or Parkland, it always seems like teachers are more helpful during the summer because of the size of your classes.
4. Greek Reunion
Greek Reunion is the best weekend of the summer by far. If you’ve been working a summer internship outside of Champaign, then it’s something you’ve been looking forward to all this time.
5. Lofts hot tub
With everyone subleasing from one another, it’s pretty easy to find out that one of your friends staying at Lofts 54.
6. 309 Pool
It’s almost impossible to not know anyone staying at 309, considering its 24 floors of residents staying the summer.
7. Roland Pool
Best pool on campus.
8. Fourth of July at Roland Pool
Barbecuing, beer, and burgers make this one of the best weekends in Champaign if you couldn’t get back to Chicago to celebrate. Not to mention the copious amount of Red, White, and Blue.
9. Everyone drinks every day.
What else are we supposed to do?
10. Summer Crew
You always have friends that are down to hit the ARC, Roland pool, or go out.
11. You don’t have 100 people to shuffle through to get to your tender at the bar
For the first time all year, you are at Red Lion, Kam’s, and Joe’s and you can actually make a lap around the bar without that drunk girl bumping into you and spilling her Cranberry Vodka on your white Brooks Brothers' polo.
12. Internship/Bar Job
Whether you’re working one of the two or both, you pretty much know your sleep schedule for the whole summer. Making money all summer to spend it on drinks isn’t all too bad either.
13. You can take an Amtrak or hitch a ride with one of your friends to get back to Chicago
If it’s going to a music festival such as Spring Awakening, Lollapalooza, or Electric Forest (Michigan), friends are always driving back for a break away from Champaign. Wanted to catch a Cubs or Sox night game during the week? Throw in for gas and get a group together to hit the Bud Light Bleachers.
14. Friends visit you to forget they live at home and work from 9-5
Let’s be honest, living at home with mom and dad after living in the house or with your pledge brothers/sisters isn’t going to be the same.
15. Just do it
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