Ever since I was a freshman I wondered what it would be like to live down at the beach. I mean, I went to some occasional random parties and became familiar with the area. I also learned how to sweet talk Juan, one of the Lantern Point security guards, so that I wouldn’t have a problem getting into the Point.
However, I never knew what it was like to actually live at the beach, especially on the Point.
Finally, senior year has come and my friends and I are experiencing it firsthand. A few days after I moved in, I soon learned that it is a very crazy atmosphere and that anything can happen at any time, day or night.
For the first week of school, we had three kegs delivered to our front porch. From who? Your guess is as good as mine. So we did what any typical college students would do-we tapped them and started to drink. Hey, free beer, why not?
Before we knew it, with each delivered keg came a party.
Living at the beach makes you do some crazy things, including swimming in the sound at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning, chasing skunks that smell as if they are living in our houses, and as sad as this may seem, running through our closed sliding screen door several times-sober at the time no less.
My housemates share the same feelings about living at the beach.
“The best thing is that there is always something going on until like six in the morning,” said Jess Riley ’06. “You can always count on someone being around and having a party right next door.”
My other housemate, Shawna Murray ’06, finds the beach to have other advantages as well.
“I love the fact that the package store is only a two-minute walk away,” Murray said. “It makes things very convenient for us.”
So far living at the beach has been crazy, and it does have its downsides. I find it absolutely impossible to get work done.
Maybe this is because I’m easily distracted, but wouldn’t anyone be when you constantly hear girls screaming Kelly Clarkson songs and hear the forceful vomiting of underclassmen rugby boys puking down the path?
I don’t know what to expect for the rest of the year, but I think down at the beach it’s going to be a hell of a time.
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