<p>I found a lake house for my family. Since we would have needed 4 rooms at a hotel for 3 nights, the house ended up costing about the same. Plus, it has a kitchen, deck,…all the amenities of a house which you wouldn’t get in a hotel. I found it on craigslist the August before I graduated and the owner is a Cornell professor that uses the home as a vacation house (and makes a lot of money renting it out for graduations!)</p>