For many fraternity and sorority members, living in a fraternity house over the summer is an experience in its own. The rent is often cheaper than during the academic year and the halls are relatively empty compared to their previous spring term bustle, but hanging out with friends in the sunshine rules the day.

For Cory Harrison of Sigma Pi fraternity, getting bored is a non-factor while living in the house through the summer months.

“You get bored here, just because it’s summer time, but it’s a different kind of bored,” said Harrison. “You get bored at home and you can’t do anything. You get bored here and you have like your ten closest friends still living here with you, and you just come together and you do the weirdest, stupidest, dumbest stuff.”

At Sigma Pi, Harrison and the other summer residents have the option to purchase a $500 meal plan that offers lunch and dinner Monday through Friday for the entirety of the summer. Harrison mentioned however, that hot plates and George Forman grills were used regularly during his previous summer stay.

Also, fraternities are independent of FSL during summer, so they have the freedom to rent out rooms to non-fraternity members or anyone they see fit. Sigma Pi rented out rooms to cooks from the Olympic trials last summer, and many fraternities house sorority members over summer as well.

“When you live together for three months, you get over the scenarios like awkward moments in the bathroom or what have you,” said Harrison of living with sorority members. “We just kind of became one giant family that lived together, so it was fun having them here. They just added to the experience of living in over the summer.”