College Times

Issue date: 5/14/09 Section: Top 10s

Summertime in Arizona generally sucks. It's over 110 degrees. It's almost too sunny. It's hard to do anything during the day. But still, it's summertime and there are lots of good things about it - 10 to be exact.

10. Strawberries
For most of the year, I can't afford these delicious berries. But now at a dollar a carton, I can get lots!

9. Otter Pops
These are the best summer heat cure ever.

8. Less traffic
I live near Arizona State University, so it's really exciting when classes are done and cars aren't clogging University Drive anymore.

7. Nighttime activities
Since it's too hot to leave the comforts of air-conditioning during the day, the only time you can actually do outside is nighttime. Nighttime activities just tend to be more fun.

6. Movies
All the summer action-packed blockbusters are released.

5. Popcorn
Since I go to the movies more, I eat more movie theater popcorn. I'm not sure what they put in it, but it always tastes so much better than any popcorn I could ever make.

4. Pools
I never liked swimming pools much until I moved to Arizona. Now they're the greatest invention ever.

3. Shoulder Chips
Once you survive an Arizona summer, you have one hell of a chip on your shoulder.

2. Road Trips
You have to escape the heat some time and road trips to cool and new places are always fun.

1. Laziness
Summer arrives and it becomes perfectly acceptable to watch TV all day or lounge by the pool.

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