<p>Well, personally i go for quality not quantity. Not that I’m saying that alcohol improves the quality of life, but for me, in some cases it does. I have many cherished memories where alcohol was involved. Alcohol is like childhood. It makes everything seem amusing. You can be entertained for hours by a box when you’re a kid, and when you’re drunk. But I would also do dangerous activities, like base-jumping, parachuting, etc bc of the whole quality over quantity.</p>
<p>That was quite funny to read, but I’m drunk anyway.</p>
<p>Funny. There are two/three reasons I don’t drink personally - 1. Health, same as Mifune. We’re all born with enough imperfection as it is, no reason to supplement that intentionally. 2. I wouldn’t want to derive my pleasure from being intoxicated/high. If I need an artificial drug injected into my nervous system to give me pleasure, two things might happen 1. My life might not be very happy without drugs/alcohol, and 2. I might not find any natural source of pleasure adequate, when walled against the artificial pleasure induced by alcohol and drugs, and consequently become addicted. 3. Following up on that, I get addicted to things very easily. Relapses are common, my lifestyle itself is an unhealthy roller-coaster at times. Very impulsive as well. Drinking is not at all unlikely to get me killed far sooner than I would be sober.</p>
<p>natim1, wherever you go to college, unless it’s Bob Jones or Liberty, or maybe BYU – none of which seems to be on the table for you – practically everyone will drink. That isn’t a point of distinction between Harvard and Princeton, or between Harvard and East Podunk Tech. </p>
<p>The culture of drinking varies somewhat from college to college, and will be more restrained at both Harvard and Princeton than at, say, Penn State or Alabama. (Or Dartmouth. If near-universal mass drinking with abandon is really important to you, and you still want an elite university, that’s where you should have applied.) All colleges have some people who don’t drink, too, but unlike high school it’s not as if drinkers and nondrinkers are on separate teams. At Harvard, Princeton, every decent university, everyone socializes with everyone, and whether someone is drinking or not isn’t the most important thing about him or her.</p>
<p>This is your nth thread worrying about whether you are going to have people to get drunk with in college. Objectively, that’s not ever going to be an issue. But maybe you should think a bit about just how anxious this makes you, and why you are making life choices based on drinking. I don’t need to tell you that’s a bad idea. I’m not one to cluck and censor about kids drinking – I grew up in a drinking culture, and I understand what you are talking about. However – just reacting to what you are writing, because I don’t know anything else about you – you come across as maybe having a real problem.</p>
<p>Yes. as I’m typing this, my hand is shhakaking from withdrawal.</p>
<p>My guess is that most, if not all of the people who have posted here will drink alcohol at least once at Harvard.</p>
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<p>I hope you don’t eat tuna fish. Mercury will rough up your brain much more than alcohol.</p>
<p>also, it’s not like I’m comparing ASU with Harvard. It’s harvard and princeton both of which offer steller academics. So yes, I am not ashamed to admit, that I am using their party scenes to make my life choice, seeing as their academics are both comparable.</p>
<p>i highly doubt drinking 1-2 times a week will have any serious, long-term repercussions on your brain development. but to each his own and whatever floats your boat, drinking is fun and a good way to just kick back and relax. but of course i respect everyones opinion, and by no means will i judge you negatively for making your own personal decision; instead i respect it.</p>
<p>I like to drink moderately, or better put: I occasionally drink, but I do not get DRUNK</p>
<p>“So far, harvard seems to be losing… I mean only one person who currently drinks and another who would consider it?”</p>
<p>Ask them when they’re college seniors, not when they’re high school seniors. You can be certain that the 2014’s are going to drink like the 2010’s. It’s the context at the school that determines most people’s decisions, not their plans before they get to college.</p>
<p>probably won’t drink–but that doesn’t mean i hate being around people who like alcohol…i just think there are many more constructive ways to kick back</p>
<p>"i just think there are many more constructive ways to kick back "</p>
<p>Like getting together with some good friends and making MUSIC! Now THAT’S a good time …
As for drinking, in 4 years I’ll be 19 … don’t think I’ll be doing much drinking as an undergrad …</p>
<p>LOL mifune talks as if he was writing an essay… so formally…</p>
<p>^ If you really want to poke mifune, you might point out that in post 16 he used “affect” when the proper word was “effect”, … but what do I know, I’m just a waitlisted kid … :)</p>
<p>^ must be from all the toxic mercury in all that tuna he’s been eating.</p>
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<p>No, I don’t, actually. I do eat seafood, however; but I limit my consumption to species with mean mercury concentrations of less than 0.05 ppm.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. There is no way you actually do that. No way. …do you?</p>
<p>Mifune, please teach me to live like you.</p>
<p><a href=“NOW on PBS | PBS”>NOW on PBS | PBS;
<a href=“http://voices.washingtonpost.com/mighty-appetite/2006/11/working_draft.html[/url]”>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/mighty-appetite/2006/11/working_draft.html</a></p>
<p>Okay this scared the **** out of me. ***<em>. I eat a *lot</em> of tuna.</p>
<p>From now on I’m following this guide for .09 ppm levels: <a href=“http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/protect.asp[/url]”>http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/protect.asp</a></p>
<p>I enthusiastically follow aquatic ecosystem-related issues.</p>
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<p>Well, whatever my habits may be, they are, of course, still far from perfect.</p>