Finch University

Finch University is the college Belly attends. She applies to the university because it is the school Jeremiah attends and she wants to be with him. Her best friend from high school, Taylor, also attends Finch University. Belly sometimes regrets that she has so many familiar faces with her at college, but she is mostly happy with the scenario because Taylor lives in a sorority house and Jeremiah lives in a fraternity house, while Belly lives in the dorm rooms, so she has time to herself to make other friends. Neither Belly nor Jeremiah are given specific majors, and neither of them takes their academics seriously. The university is presented as more of a casual, party-school than a rigorous academic school.

Beach House

The beach house at Cousins is the most important location in the novel. Belly grows up spending every single summer in Cousins with her...