You and a group of your friends are driving down Ivy with the windows down and Paul Simon blasting on the CD player. You're all in your bathing suits, your hair is being whipped around by the breeze, and the sun's rays are being soaked up by your bare skin. You turn right at the little wooden sign, and after some winding turns and a couple of laughs, you're there. As you look up and see people fishing on the dock, students throwing Frisbees, girls laying out in bathing suits -- all amidst a breathtaking background of evergreens and mountains -- you realize why everyone keeps telling you that college is the four best years of your life. No, you're not on the Lawn or the Old Dorms quad (this place is much better): you're at Beaver Creek.
Beaver Creek is just 15 minutes away from Grounds, yet some students don't hear about it until late in their college careers.
"I wish I had known about Beaver Creek earlier, I would have come here a lot more often," fourth-year College student Will Rose said.
Trading in calculus books for magazines and tuning in to iPods rather than professors is always nice, students said. Sometimes school can get stressful, and being surrounded by libraries, coffee shops and overachieving students can be too much. Lounging around Beaver Creek is a healthy way to de-stress, and is often too tempting to bypass on a gloriously sunny day.
"Sometimes it's nice to take a little trip and get away from Grounds," second-year College student Alana Witte said. "It's so fun to just chill out for a while."
Many students may think they don't have time to go out and relax at the Creek, but it's a lot closer than they think, and it's a great way to procrastinate. Work rarely is started until the evening, and doing lunch with friends or watching some MTV always puts off work anyway. Going to Beaver Creek is a novel way to kill some time and is not really out of the way.
"Sometimes you don't think you have time to drive out and just sit around here, but it's not too far away and it's definitely worth it," second-year College student Katherine Lang said. "What else would you rather do on a sunny day?"
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