After months of frozen toes, claustrophobic apartments with plastic-covered windows, and being afraid to step outside your Athens Ohio apartment for fear of freezing to death, the weather is suddenly amazing. Enjoy it. Get out. This is when having a rental home in Athens with a yard or a porch makes you everybody’s best friend. You might as well be living on your own resort.
You can’t blame friends for loving your outdoor living space. Spring semester in an apartment building vs. kicking it on a porch simply has no comparison. And it’s not just the porch parties or BBQ grill outs either, although those certainly are some of the perks. Here are some of the biggest reasons to rent an Ohio University housing that has some great outdoor space.
Weather May Be Beautiful, but You Still Need to Study
The weather is awesome. Though you might be tempted to treat the semester like an extended spring break vacation, you could end up flunking out of school. But when you have a porch or a yard, you can study outside easier. With a comfy couch on an outdoor porch, those beautiful sunny days are still ripe for studying. Throw on some shorts, a T-shirt, grab yourself a refreshing drink and dig into that Macroeconomics.
Your Frisbee’s Calling
In between studying, you might as well face it. You’re going to want to have some fun. It’s impossible on those gorgeous days to not break out your Frisbee, toss the old pigskin, lay out on a beach blanket and soak in some serious rays. When those opportunities are right in your front yard, you can kick back a little without being too far from your textbooks. A yard can be a great way to take a break and then still get back to studying.
BBQs, Kiddy Pool Parties, Porch Beer Pong
You’ll want to take advantage of your house with a porch when the weather’s nice and have some fun. Having a nice porch or a house with a yard can be a blast. Grill some sausages, fill up the kiddy pool, break out the pingpong table. If you’re going to work hard, you might as well play hard. It definitely helps if all the fun is right near your OU housing rental.