Fall, football and crisp afternoons give way to pools, sunscreen and new activities spring semester.
"I like to go to Chewacla and hike down to the waterfall and kind of rock climb around there and go swimming out in the lake," said Courtney Dryden, senior in communications, "because I'm not great at team sports, sports with balls."
A popular ball-less spring activity is flinging frisbee around campus.
"I like it, but I can't throw anything in a straight line," Dyrden said.
Jessica Anderson, freshman in pre-nursing, said she enjoys throwing frisbee to relax, but she has never played ultimate frisbee.
In her youth, Anderson said she enjoyed playing pick-up basketball.
"I was a tomboy, so I played basketball with the boys in the neighborhood," Anderson said. "I got pushed down a lot."
Spring also brings baseball and baseball's half cousin, half bastard child wiffleball.
"I like playing baseball, watching baseball is kind of slow," said Katherine Nunn, senior in chemical engineering. "But wiffleball is always entertaining."
Traditional wiffleball closely follows the rules and regulations of baseball, but instead uses a holey plastic ball and plastic bat.
"Wiffleball is great because it doesn't go as far as a baseball, so it gives girls and guys a better chance of being equal," Nunn said.
Not every Auburn student enjoys wiffleball and the sometimes stuffy spring weather.
"I think that wiffleball was fun when we were little kids, and I think that now that we're adults there are a lot more entertaining things to do," said Paul Warren, senior in chemical engineering. "And in the spring time a lot of people, including myself, have allergies, so getting out and playing leisure sports is kind of boring."
Warren said he has better things to with his time, like studying, playing video games and reading to increase his mental capacity.
"Honestly, if I'm going to waste my time out in a beautiful day it's going to be getting in shape to be swoll and look like a goon and not to play Frisbee and get on people's nerves with my longboard," Warren said.
For those like Warren who don't necessarily enjoy traditional spring activities, other leisure options could include bowling, laying out by the pool or waterskiing.
"I love bowling," Dryden said. "I've had more fun going to the bowling alley recently. Me and my boyfriend go and drink and bowl. You get better after a couple drinks."
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