<p>You guys are being ridiculous. It's been statistically proven that adults who drink leisurely earn more than those who abstain all together. My best memories so far this year have been staying up till 5 AM watching movies, talking, and just procrastinating with my fraternity brothers when we were supposed to be studying and getting hammered the night before my midterms and still getting A's on them . </p>
<p>That's the s**t i'm going to look back on in my older years, and know I LIVED my life. I hope when you graduate, you have no regrets that you made few friends during the last four years of your youth. Be sure to tell your children and grand kids about that time you stayed in for the weekend studying and aced your calculus test...I'm sure they'll love it.</p>
people who refuse to hang out with people who drink and thus only hang out with other sober kids. there are several girls on my hall who are like this. they are exactly the kind of girls you would expect would choose to live in an all-girls' dorm. they either stay in the dorms on weekends or go to campus-sponsored events with each other.
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<p>My friends minus out the fact they are friends with me... and I'm slowly corrupting them.</p>
<p>Kiz you are mistaken. I go to a prestigious school, and probably 80% of the students here have mastered balancing work and drinking. I get ****faced every weekend, and still pull great scores. Ever heard the saying "Study Hard, Party Hard"? It's known for a reason. Live a little, and don't be a loser. You don't have to drink, but at least have a social life and go out.</p>
<p>arasam, you're not getting my point. I'm in no way for the idea that you have to drink to have a social life in college. It's just that this poster seems so shocked by the idea of college students drinking that it seems like he doesn't get out much. I have a group of friends of about 15... only about half of us drink.</p>
<p>Oh, and I agree wholeheartedly with kkhatib07. I'm so sick of people stereotyping 'partyers' as losers who will go nowhere. I go to a university with a 22% acceptance rate, have a better GPA than my roommate who studies her ass off, AND -gasp- DRINK at least 2 nights a week.</p>
<p>Another agree with all the posters saying that you can balance schoolwork/EC's/drinking and be successful in all those areas. I'm on a varsity sports team, have never had less than 5 classes, and serve on the exec board for three clubs right now and I hardly ever see a week without at least a couple nights of drinking. I have a 3.78 for those who care.</p>
<p>Unlike kiz137, seeing this thread makes me happy alcohol exists. Non partiers have such a skewed view of why people like to party. I know when I leave college I will have a whole host of amazing stories. Moments, among friends, that will always be remembered as legendary.</p>
<p>In no particular order:
1. Epic beer pong (beruit) victories
2. Conversations till 4am
3. Boys vs. girls flip cup
4. Getting an entire party to sing songs together
5. Horrible pick-up attempts that succeeded
6. Horrible hook-up stories
7. Dancing</p>
<p>20 years from now you won't remember what you learned in your classes, but you'll remember the friends you made and the good times you had.</p>
<p>Not everyone in college who drinks has that experience. Only the retarded ones who have no self control and don't know their limits. Plenty of people go out, drink, but don't experience 8 & 9, you must be extremely naive and quite the hermit.</p>
<p>Sorry! Couldn't resist! Just about to delete my post......guess I won't....naive?...I wish!....been there, done that, and definately NOT my favorite "memories". To each his own!</p>
<p>Are there girls in colleges that are attractive and smart and whatnot, that respect themselves enough to not have one night stands? Or are most girls in college like that?</p>
<p>Sure there are! That's a common misconception, don't believe that everyone in college is one particular way. I'm sure that if you take the time to look, you'll find somebody you prefer.</p>
<p>I seriously believe the people who party all the time and yet go to a great school are more intelligent than those who go to the same caliber school, or same school, but study all the time and resort to never drinking and such.
Seriously..it's the way life works. I just find it amusing. No matter how much these kids study, they will still end up working for those "losers" partying hard throughout college. And exclude the total meat heads - I'm not talking about the totally messed up kids.</p>
<p>I hate people who talk on their high horse about how its morally corrupt to drink beer and how later in life "it'll come back to bite them," etc. etc. I actually think going to parties and getting smashed is a positive experience and obviously its fun....and I think that kids who actually are social will be more successful in a later career because they can actually interact with people and have fun. when I look back on my teen and college years thats the stuff im gonna remember, not the studying crap. and its nonsense that all people who party hard are losers...I party and drink every week and I still have a higher GPA than most of the geeks at my school.</p>