Yes, it’s officially summer, ladies!

While some people are crazy aren’t major fans of the summer season, most of us at CollegeCandy couldn’t be more excited. What’s not to love about flip flop weather, 7-11 Slurpee runs and going out without having to worry about whether the bar has coat check or not? And the way your sun-kissed skin looks in a coral sundress? Sigh. Is there anything like it?!

With the temps rising the our favorite TV shows coming to an end for the season, it’s time to bust out those summer whites, scrunch some gel into your hair and enjoy the best the summer has to offer. Here are a few of our favorite things. What do you love most out summertime?

Emmy – Loyola University Chicago: My favorite thing about summer is being able to sleep in ridiculously late and laying on the beach.

Sara C – Fordham: Favorite thing about summer? Definitey the overabundance of Mr. Softee roaming around the city. Nothing beats a twist at sunset with friends!

Cristina – Michigan State University: Sitting in the sun with a popsicle and a beer.

Rachael – University of Miami: I’m not a huge fan of summer (I’m almost albino pale, so no beach time for me, and I go to school in Florida anyway), but I guess what I most like about it is the overall sense of freedom: time to be a little lazy, catch up on pleasure reading, wear loose and flowy clothing, etc. Oh! and street fairs in Manhattan – I love shopping there, or even just walking around.

Carly – Grinnell: Favorite thing about summer: the warm weather. I FREEZE nine months out of the year in the Midwest, but summer is the one season during which I can feel as if I live in a tropical climate.

Norah – Drake University: I’m Minnesota-born, so for me, summer means weekends at my family’s cabin. Boating, tubing, waterskiing, hanging out at the beach, fireworks on the lake for the Fourth of July…I couldn’t be more excited. I’m also psyched to catch up on my reading–I just found a book club that’s reading Jane Austen and Willa Cather this summer.

Jessica – Delaware: Backyard barbecues! Who doesn’t love laying by the pool, sipping Coronas and eating cheeseburgers!?

Jessica – Hofstra: My favorite thing about summer is laying on the beach with my friends after a long night out – and talking about every ridiculous thing we did (and probably don’t remember).

Brithny – Duke: The excuse to get fro-yo every. single. day.

Alex – University of South Carolina: Walking the boardwalk at night and Dunkin’ Donuts Lemonade Coolatas (RIP).

Samantha – UCSB: Camp, my birthday and SUMMER FLINGS! Hot hot hot!

Christie – NC State University: I know it’s weird, but I love the smell of sunscreen. Second to that is the feeling of the summer breeze whipping my hair around with the windows down on a road trip.

Brittany – University of Saint Thomas: The simple pleasure of sitting on the front step with my Mom eating a chocolate dipped cone. And night boating to Jimmy Buffett and Sublime.

Sarabeth – University of Texas: Best part about summer is pool/hot tub parties. fo. sho.

Meg – University of Delaware: My favorite thing about summer is spending time in my backyard in the hammock with my dogs (me and two giant Bernese Mountain Dogs is a liiiiittle toasty…) and drinking every night with my friends on the deck. Oh, and playing manhunt around the neighborhood- yeah, I’m cool like that.

Alex – Lakehead: CAMP! Here in Northern Ontario, we refer to cottages as camps, and there is truly nothing better than a day of waterskiing, saunas and a bonfire with beers.

Charlsie – Hollins University: My favorite thing about summer is that every day is a good day to wear a sundress and sandals!

Ricki – University of Michigan: Being able to workout without having to enter a sweaty, smelly, gym.

Kari – Florida State: The best part about summer is opening all the doors and windows, grilling and relaxing in the pool with Coronas!

So you’re stuck on campus for Spring Break, watching people flee to warmer climates or their parents’ house. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to be bored. There are plenty things to do on campus that are fun and don’t break the bank.

Have a beach party – just because you’re not at the beach doesn’t mean you can’t pretend you are. Break out the bikinis and shorts, blend up some margaritas and blast the songs that remind you of summer. Invite others that stuck on campus. You might even find a cute boy you can ‘lei’.

Theme parties – Still not in shape to don your bikini? What about another type of theme party? Have a moustache party (no you don’t have to grow one, just squiggle a nice one on your finger and hold it up to your face). Or you could try out our makeup tips for a decade party. Or how about a party from one of those fabulous places you didn’t get to travel this break. Fiesta anyone?

Be a tourist in your city – Chances are while you’re in school you don’t have a lot of time to get out and explore the city or town you’re living in. Getting to know your town is one of the things you must do before you graduate, so why not do it now? If there are museums in your area, find out when they have free admission, or discount days and check them out. Or find all the weird and wonderful attractions and go take pictures with everything! Not only will it be fun finding all the odd things in your city (my hometown has a parking garage filled with life-size cow statues) but you’ll also end up with a fun set of staycation pictures for everyone to look at!

Be productive – You’ve got things to do and now is the perfect time to catch up. Some schools even have seminars during reading week. At mine they have a weeks worth of job-hunting, resume writing, interviewing seminars that may come in handy. And with the head start on the job hunt, maybe you’ll score an amazing job that means you can go away next Spring Break!

Movie marathons – Get together everyone you know for an epically long themed movie-marathon. You could have everyone bring their favorite movie and watch them all, have an 80s movie night, a slasher-flick marathon or a cheesy-chick flick night. Or, if you’ve missed all your favourite TV shows, catch up on those.

Clothing swap – Get all the girls together for a clothing swap. Chances are your closet needs some new life, so trade in the items you no longer wear for something new. It also gives you a chance to get rid of the temptation of any super tight items leftover from that pre-frosh-15 days.

Game Night — Got any board games lying around or know any good card games? Why not have a games night? Are there cute boys around? As they demonstrate in Friends, every game can have the ‘strip’ element added to it.

So even if you are on campus there are plenty of ways to have fun this break. As with any break, there are the people to avoid after you head back to classes. What is everyone doing to recession proof their breaks?

No matter how crazy you think your personal situation is, it is not just you. So, let’s bring it all out in the open. Right here. Because you are not alone - we’ve all been there before.]

You spent all day curled up in bed with a hot beverage in your hand and thick socks on your feet. You debated even getting up to pee. Your bed is so warm and the world is just so cold. Your roommates join you in the middle of the day to watch old episodes of Sex and the City. Normally you’d be at the gym, or the library, or walking around campus, but not today – not in the dead of winter.

There is no way in hell you are getting out of bed.

When your phone rings at 9 you assume it’s the pizza guy delivering the large white pie you ordered with the roomies. You purposely left the front door unlocked last time you ran to the bathroom (with the blanket over your shoulders) so he could let himself in and bring the pizza to your bedside.

Only it’s not the pizza guy; it’s your guy friend. You pick up and it takes two words (beach party) for you to kick off those wool socks and get you out of your warm and toasty bed.

“The boys are having a beach party tonight. We have to go! We can pretend it’s warm out! We can’t lock ourselves in side all winter, girls!”

The roommates are in, obvi. It’s a party. It’s gonna be fun. You will be inside most of the time, and you will be too drunk to realize how cold you are when you’re not. And it’s a party!

You quickly trade in your feather duvet and hot cocoa for a skimpy bikini and tequila shots. The next thing you know, you are standing in line outside of a house (with a living room filled with sand) wearing nothing more than a bikini and a pair of shorts, waiting to fill your empty Solo cup with extra cold beer. Your Uggs are keeping your toes warm, but that doesn’t mean much when the snow is coming in over the top of the boots.

You can’t feel your hands. You can’t control the dripping from your nose. Your ears are bright red. You have a hard time singing along to Beyonce with the incessant chattering of your teeth.

But you don’t care about any of that. You are having an awesome time. Who cares about the cold?

Yeah, we’ve all been there too. There are just some things (read: parties) totally worth venturing out for.

And you have the pictures to prove it.

While the themes of the parties may have been different (Tiki Tuesday? Beach party? Ghetto Fabulous?), the music was not. I don’t know what it is, but it seems like there is one playlist that somehow makes its

way into every bar or house on campus. And then plays on repeat. All night.

You love it while you’re double fisting Coronoa’s, but, for the love of God, if you hear that damn song one. more. time…

Our writers know how that goes. We asked them which songs they never ever (as long as they live) want to hear at a party again. Watch your back, Flo-rida – I think your time is over.

Alex – Lakehead University: I never ever EVER want to hear Hotel California by the Eagles at the bar again. I know it seems like a strange one, but come to Thunder Bay and you’ll suffer through it at least once a night.

Kari – Florida State: “Boots with the furrrr.” Not only does this song make my ears bleed, it feels the need to accost my eyeballs as well. For some reason every girl with a FUPA feels that this is “her song” and runs to the middle of the dance floor. No thank you.

Carly – Grinnell: “Follow Me” by Uncle Kracker. It is not good now, and it was never good. It should be eradicated.

Ali – Syracuse University: Good question. I hope never again to hear “Low” by Flo-rida. Who parties dressed in boots with furrr?

Conan – Columbia College: Montell Jordan – This is how we do it.

Sarabeth – University of Texas: I will die happy if I never hear Soulja boy again.

Kate Bean – NYU: What song do i NOT want to hear again at a party? The Titanic theme song. Yeah. It happened. I know what you’re thinking: “Kate, the mini fridge by your bed does not count as a bar. And binge drinking by yourself is not a party.” I beg to differ.

Jessica – FSU: Anything by Nickelback

Olua – I have no interest in Fergie’s (or anyone else’s) humps. I didn’t before the song came out and every time I hear it, a little part of me dies.

K – NYU: No question – “Love Generation.” I’m sure Spring Break 2006 was awesome but, really, don’t make me relive it.

Kelly – UMass: No Air by Jordan Sparks & Chris Brown…soooo overrated and over played!

Melanie – Northeastern University: “Livin’ On a Prayer.” Mostly because I think I AM Bon Jovi when I hear it and I screech it… at the top of my lungs…

Lauren – University of Michigan: Hollaback Girl. That sh*t is bananas. Oh, and “Get Low” cuz it’s gross and people are always pointing out windows and walls. Why?!

Erica – Kent State: JOURNEY, “Don’t Stop Believin’.” I really don’t think any explanation is necessary.

Victoria: That revolting, wretch-inducing, cringe-worthy Kelly Clarkson song “Since You’ve Been Gone”. For some mysterious reason, bars keep this cheesy tune in serious rotation. Since bars lack pre-pubescent angsty patrons, I’m puzzled.

Amber – Old Dominion: I’m a dance freak so I rarely get tired of songs, but I was rather happy when everyone stopped trying to “crank dat soulja boy.”

Noa – Colorado University, Boulder: Anything by Avril. Barf.

Sara – NYU: “Baby Got Back.” I actually really like that song (ah, nostalgia) but it always seems to make the DJ really grumpy.

Last time

This episode: 12 people remain. Everyone makes it sound like the competition is really serious but they’ve been there for like 4 days so I don’t believe them. Tila leaves a bowl of questions out for everyone to answer. Shockingly, all of the questions are sex related. Until the MTV writers throw in a question about gay marriage and Chad is against it and “a child deserves a father.” Oof, shut up. You’re losing your sexy, Chad.

Challenge for the day: who can ride it better? Ugh, scary. Backyard Bi-nanza. Quit it already with these competition names. So they are riding mechanical bulls. The teams are mixed up because the girls keep beating the guys. Apparently Sirbrina rides mechanical bulls for a living because she works at a bar and I need to rethink my career choices.

[There’s a commercial for “Real World: Hollywood” – are they serious with this? Where’d they find the ignorant blonde? Please don’t let her vote in the upcoming election.]

The yellow team wins but I don’t know who’s on it. They are going on a date with Tila in a fake saloon that MTV built the day before and the losers have to make chili for Tila.

Bo keeps his bandana hat on to cook. Kyle and the blonde girl with the booty are there, too. Is this where Chad fights Bo?

Tila’s drinking on the date because she’d otherwise be miserable having to interact with the cast while sober. She asks George about sex and he acts shy about it – but you can tell that with just a tiny bit of encouragement George would do things that I cannot even begin to type here. Like alllllll sorts of things.

The date ends and Tila goes to eat the dinner that Bo and Co. prepared. I’m glad that Bo took off the cowboy gear. Too bad the chili was good and didn’t poison anyone. Bo gets Tila alone after dinner and the other losers sulk over their bowls.

Next day – beach party. This is gonna get nasty.

Chad and Jersey Jay have grown close. I guess if it doesn’t work out with Tila, they can have each other. And then there’s an orgy in the pool. Yawn – predictable. This is followed by another challenge; the guys have to pair up with a girl and the main objective is to get the wettest. I guess that the winners get a date. Kyle and Lisa (I’m so dumb for not realizing last week that her last name is Rizzo – I thought that it was a “Grease” reference.)

Lisa and Kyle have alone time with Tila and Rizzo calls him Creepy Kyle. Creep on me, Kyle. Why is it weird for Kyle to ask if Tila’s ever had sex on a swing after she asked George about sex? Ooooh, burn, Tila kissed Lisa goodbye and not Kyle. You’re probably going home, dude.

Can we have eliminations yet? Isn’t Chad supposed to punch Bo?

So two are going home.

It comes down to Kyle, George, Glitter and Lisa (what?).

How the f^ck is Glitter still in and NOT Lisa?

Oh – Lisa is still in.

George AND Kyle are going home. Kyle, I said it before, I’ll say it again: Stalk me. You say you’re not a stalker but whatever – try for me.

Tila musters up some fake tears for George and while he does seem like a very nice guy, he is NO innocent, I’m telling you. Poor guy. A few people actually go outside to cry and say goodbye to George. Awww, don’t worry everyone; you’ll see him at the reunion show in like five weeks.

And here is the fight that they’ve been showing us from episode one because Jay and Bo start up. Jay, you can’t break Bo’s face without a step ladder. Then Chad, the butt buddy, hits Bo and we find out next week that Chad’s either going to be charged with assault and/or off of the show.

Stay tuned!