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While college is easily the most carefree years of your life, it’s also likely the most broke years of your life (unless you’re one of those trust fund kids, if so, good for you) as you scrape by selling your Adderall and getting a job delivering pizzas.
Smoking Weed Inside
It’s f*cking hot out and you want to get high, but going outside is the last thing you want to do. Truth be told, it’s not even enjoyable being stoned in the unforgiving heat. The sweat, the moisture, it stinks and should be avoided at all costs.
Just picture it: you’re laying on the couch in your beautifully air-conditioned house and you want to get a little baked. But your parents don’t know you smoke weed and you’ve got nowhere to be, so you can’t just randomly leave the house. We’ve all been there.
Now, the youths will tell me that vape pens have defeated this issue, and that’s partially true, but at the end of the day, there’s nothing like OG, regular ass weed. And just like there’s nothing like old school weed, there’s nothing like smoking said weed in the comfort of your air-conditioned house, which is not something you can get away with while at your parent’s house (unless they’re, like, totally chill, bro).
Not Having To Do Chores
Look, you still should do chores — clean the dishes, take out the trash, mop once a month, etc — but you don’t have to.
No Mom breathing down your neck that you have to watch your sister, that you have to take your dog to the groomer — all the chores you have to do while living at school, you’re technically doing by choice. While I don’t suggest it, if you really wanted to just rot away in your own filth for three months, you totally could. But please, don’t do that.
The older you get, you find a certain sense of relief in knocking things off the to-do list and that begins with living on your own during summer, which is the closest you’ll get to adulthood before it actually happens (since there’s no class and you’re likely working every day).
Living with Friends
The most obvious reason on the list is that you get to keep living the college life even though class isn’t in session. I haven’t lived in my parents home since I was 18, so I can’t personally speak on it, but my friends who have gone home in recent years say the thing they miss most about college is just being with the guys on regular nights.
Once you trade living with your siblings and parents to living with your squad, it’s tough to ever go back. I never did and you may not either (but if you can move back home, I’d definitely suggest it for 6 months to a year to stack some bread, build a little cushion).
Being Able to Drink Without Guilt
In college, shirking responsibility and cracking a beer at 1 p.m. on a beautiful weekday is totally normal, if not somewhat expected. But home, under your Mom and Dad’s roof, shirking responsibility and cracking a beer at 1 p.m. is considered alcoholism and you will never hear the end of it. Trust me.
While it’s one of the most wildly overused cliches on the planet, you only get to live college once and day drinking is a hugggeeee part of that as it’s pretty much unacceptable any other time in life (not counting the weekends, obviously).
Of all the perks of living away from home during the summer, being able to drink like your in college without having any stress about class is probably the biggest one.
