For me, the best seven days of the fall are spent in Beaver Stadium. Those Saturday afternoons standing on a metal bench with your friends will become some of the best experiences of freshman year.

If you didn’t grow up a Penn State fan, going to football games is the best way to become full of blue and white spirit. With Beaver Stadium being the second largest stadium in the country, seating over 107,000, the in-stadium atmosphere is amazing.

And that doesn’t even include the tailgates.

Getting to take it all in is easy, you just have to wake up before 7 a.m.

On Thursday, June 23, freshmen will be able to buy season tickets for $218. The sale opens on Ticketmaster at 7 a.m. and closes at 2 p.m. and fortunately — or unfortunately depending on how you look at it — freshmen tickets will likely sell out within minutes.

Buying tickets is genuinely easy, only takes a couple of minutes and only requires a few things.

First, create a Ticketmaster account — at the very latest the night before the sale — which will allow you to log in and purchase season tickets.

Second, have your Penn State student ID card or ID number handy so you can enter that in as proof you are a student.

Third, have a credit or debit card so you can purchase and secure a ticket for all seven games.

Finally, don’t set your alarm for 7 a.m. I’d recommend around 6:45 a.m. That allows you time to get up, get your laptop booted up and log into your account when 7 a.m. rolls around. If you choose to wait a couple of minutes, they will probably all be gone.

Even if you aren’t a big football fan, buy tickets. For one, it will cost you more to buy on a game-by-game basis. And two, almost everyone goes to the games and the next day people will be talking about Saquon Barkley’s hurdle, Chris Godwin’s catch or Trace McSorley’s scramble and you will want to have seen it.

With a white out and stripe out scheduled, the student section will be a blast. The Nittany Lions will play host to Ohio State, Michigan State and Iowa among others. It should be a phenomenal seven Saturday’s in Beaver Stadium starting with the home opener against Kent State on September 3.

And it’s worth getting up before 7 a.m. for.