The CC Weekly Weigh In: The Downsides of Summer

By CC Staff

Summer. What a delicious season. From the fruit to the fruity cocktails, everything seems so much fresher in the warm summer sun (well, everything besides our under-arms). Everything seems so much easier (besides the monthly bikini waxes). Everything is just so much…better (except the condition of our intensive-care inducing sunburns).We love the summer; really, we do. But, just like the killer hangover that comes after an awesome night of Sake Bombing, summer does have some downsides. Our writers weigh in on their least favorite parts of the season:

Sarah – NYU: Being drenched with sweat before I even leave my apartment in the morning. Gross.

Stacy Kidd: The weather; it just loves to pour buckets on me when the forecaster predicts sun, and conversely make me sweat buckets when rain is expected. Fantastic.

Diana Vilibert: Cute summer dresses that end in discomfort, thanks to inner-thigh chafing. (What, just me?)

Kate Bean: Sweating in my knee pit…or wait… is it “leg pit”?

Conan – Columbia College: Sand in the suit.

K – NYU: Pedicure upkeep on the bi-weekly, which takes money straight from my summer drinks fund. It’s a necessary evil; no one likes dirtball feet during flip-flop season.

Britt – Northern Virginia Community College: The pressure to be a certain size for bathing suit season.

Erica – Kent State: The fact that straightening my hair does NOT work – or if it does, it’s completely worthless because in ten minutes, my hair is a frizz ball again.

Mollie – University of Wisconsin-Madison: My electric bill.

Noa – UC Boulder: Living at home. With my parents.

Victoia Witchey: Men thinking that summertime gives them free reign to act like jackasses as they lean out the car window to hoot and holler at every female in a skirt.

EG- UW-Madison: Moving forward when the summer fling leaves town. It is not as romantic as Grease makes it look.

Elizabeth – Baruch College: Disgusting water from A.C.s in NYC dripping on my head and having to wear 60 proof sun block (PASTE) so I don’t turn red.

A.G.D. – Emerson College: Makeup melting down my face.

Kari – Florida State: Humidified hair. I single handedly keep Frederic Fekkai in business via Fekkai Glossing spray.

Suzie McCarthy – George Washington University: Damp armpits marks– ewwww!

Sara – NYU: Observing mass muffin-top.

Jessica – FSU: The intense, miserable Florida humidity and the fact very time you walk outside, it’s like being dipped in a vat of lukewarm sweat. Only not as pleasant.

Olua: Hands down, my least favorite thing about summer is how you really don’t appreciate it until you see the leaves starting to turn. You go from lying around inside cuz it’s too hot to do anything to wishing you had the free time to lie around inside. It sucks.

Chelsea – Musician’s Institute: My forehead peeling and looking like I have some exciting new skin disease. Awesome.

Lyndsey – U of M: Anything not good about summer is cancelled out by the inherent awesomeness of the season. Summer is perfection.

What about you? Got any summer peeves?