<p>Holden Caulfield in Catcher was a seventeen-year-old. The majority of you are not seventeen anymore. Please get over yourselves.</p>
<p>Don’t kill the messenger please. I’m only stating what I’ve seen and have noticed. </p>
<p>For example, this kid in my high school, whom I’ve known since middle school, isn’t a partyer at all. I’ve never seen him at any major party, yet in college he makes himself out to be a big partyer and that “he’s down for anything”… um yeah okay… be more fake kid.</p>
<p>^Oh no! People changing, how awful!</p>
<p>Everyone knows that the first 18 years of your life determine who you’re allowed to be for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>onhcetum, You’re stuck in high school. You have a very narrow mind and process information through a very petty and juvenile filter. You are simply afraid of the world and afraid of change.</p>
<p>The OP is clearly not frating hard enough</p>
<p>But seriously, you need to realize that people CHANGE in college. There is nothing wrong with going from hermit to partier or vice versa. You also need to understand that there is nothing wrong with partying, just like there is nothing wrong with playing video games on a friday night if thats what you are in to. However, don’t confuse complacency with happiness. Many people think what they do makes them happy because they are unafraid of change. Fake it until you make it, and stop worrying about other people. If you judge others then no matter what you will judge people to be better than you (just like you will judge others to be worse) and it will eat you up inside. Do not worry about others and be you.</p>
<p>onhcetum - it is a fa</p>
<p>“u mad phaggot?”</p>
<p>Nope, looks like I hit a nerve there. While you’re staying in worrying about not being fake, I’ll be out awesoming all over the place.</p>
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<p>I like that phrase. How much will you sell it for?</p>
<p>You have to talk to NPH.</p>
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<p>He owns it? Figures. Whatever, I can do without it.</p>
<p>From what I have experienced, most of College was a waste of time.</p>
<p>I would have much rather have spent the tuition and >4 years of my life traveling and meeting people outside of America.</p>
<p>In terms of College being fake I believe it is a more sophisticated form of social marketing. The media hypes and glorifies College in television and the movies so that the herd will flock together.</p>
<p>It isn’t a difficult concept to understand when you understand how much the parents are paying for their kiddies to experience College.</p>
<p>"The OP is clearly not farting hard enough "</p>
<p>i agree</p>
<p>I love when young people talk about life. It’s like Hipsters discussing film techniques and analytic philosophy.</p>
<p>I love when old people die.</p>
<p>I agree with OP. There are various reasons but simply put, yes this is true.</p>
<p>I love it when old people act like they know what they’re talking about.</p>
<p>Tobacco is mostly right.</p>
<p>Not everything you do is for validation but the vast majority is.</p>
<p>He’s completely right that everything you do is for survival and reproduction (at the genetic level, aka if you die to save your niece same thing).</p>
<p>A magnificent survival and reproduction mechanism (that is a supreme curse) that was created is THE EGO.</p>
<p>Your ego is the thing that always tells you that you don’t have enough; you don’t have enough resources, you don’t have enough women, you need to get stronger, be better, take more, do more.</p>
<p>Even if you are a billionaire with a dozen women! Funny thing the ego, it makes sure you are never happy. But, it inadvertently helps you survive. Well, at least it did during the stone age, lol. I don’t think its too hard to figure out why.</p>
<p>Anyway one side effect of the ole’ ego is the constant approval seeking and social status jockeying that we humans all do constantly. That and trying to score more women.</p>
<p>But anyway, no, people don’t party and drink to be fake or ‘cool’ per se.</p>
<p>People enjoy it. So what if they didn’t drink in high school. I didn’t drink in high school, mostly because of my parents and I hang with mostly nerds. In college, drinking was out in the open and most people did it (it had less stigma) so I tried it and it’s great!</p>
<p>It’s great because it dulls pain and gives pleasure. Two great motivators! Partying also gives you the possibility of getting laid.</p>
<p>And we all know that if you tell the average guy he has even a 10% chance of getting laid if he drives to some synagogue 500 miles away, he will be showing up there every Saturday.</p>
<p>So what’s not to get? Go out and drink. Live a little.</p>
<p>^ state your sources.</p>
<p>Two months in… my stance still hasn’t changed. God, people are so fake and shallow. Let’s be honest, everyone you knew in high school is acting all strange and different – in a shallow matter. In other words, they aren’t acting like themselves. They’re being fake and phony – since no one will call them out on it. </p>
<p>I saw bunch of quiet guys today whom I knew in high school talking about how they were partyers and that they’re “down for anything”. This is such a joke.</p>
<p>And the girls… please don’t even get me started. Going out on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights… going out in a skirt when it’s 15 degrees out… </p>
<p>Most girls are in college for the wrong reasons. They’re in college is socialize and further extend high school drama that they couldn’t get enough of.</p>