<p>Well…there is a large assortment of opinions over the Internet.</p>
<p>I can tell you from personal experience that I have met a lot of people in my 21(Almost 22 years now) of life. It doesn’t matter whether they party five nights a week, study 51 hours a week, sit alone all day in the dorm room, or study 20 hours a week and then go out to some social gathering. To some extent; every person on planet Earth is closed minded. It doesn’t matter what your religion is, how popular you are, or if you are labeled as a social “reject.”</p>
<p>What I could never understand why everyone views social events like partying/clubbing, academic disciplines like an English major versus a Computer Science major, or personal objections such as having a ton of friends as oppose to getting good grades as some sort of giant contest. As in if I do not go and party all the time- Then I am a social reject, If I do not get above a 3.0 GPA- I am stupid, or if I do not organize effectively enough of my time to study and socialize with friends then I am doing something wrong.</p>
<p>It has something to do with the media and its control over peoples minds- What College should be about versus what I truly want to accomplish. But I guess in the end I really just don’t care enough about the whole agenda to write down any more words.</p>
<p>what are you talking about…?
you barely even related this to the topic. nobody’s gonna label you as a social reject if you’re not partying all the time.
also, it’s natural to compete over grades, social standing, or anything else. the media? what…?</p>
<p>Not much of a party person myself. I go to a community college so it is harder to socialize with others (not that I would want to associate with most of these losers). When I transfer I might be more social, but I don’t plan on being a party person. I also don’t plan on drinking, at least to the extent that most college students do.</p>
<p>yeah I don’t party either. my first year of college I went to one party and stayed for like 30 min. it basically consisted of random guys groping you and thinking its ok because its a party and they’re drunk. I don’t care if people party, to each his own, I just mind when they try to make you feel bad and start pulling out peer pressure when you say you don’t party, it gets tired. Plus, I do not feel like being the designated driver or the one sober friend at a party (I don’t drink) taking care of everyone. All you hear the next morning is the stupid thing that someone did because they were drunk. I think that its college and we’re all grown (for the most part) so we can all make the choice to party or not.</p>
<p>I think most people feel this “peer pressure” when a lot of friends want to go to a party and one or two do not. They’ll try to convince you because they like you and want you to come. Of course you have the choice to not party, but in these cases I think the people who don’t want to go to the party are being selfish if they expect the others to stay behind with them, and that the rest of the group should feel no guilt in going without the other two people.</p>
<p>I’m not a party person at all, either. Small gathering of friends hanging out and having fun? Sure, unless I have something super important I’m up for it. Movies, plays, musicals (if I can find any in that town), book readings, local bands playing, shopping or just hanging out is totally cool. Watching people get so drunk that they can’t walk straight and are incredibly rude BECAUSE they are drunk or try and make out with you? No thanks.</p>
<p>I’m also very much into cooking and after college plan on going to culinary school and being a private chef for a bit before going into the food industry.</p>
<p>I spend most of my weekends cooking. =) Which worked at well since my drunk friends then enjoyed my food. ;D</p>
<p>People either never believe that I don’t party (I guess I don’t fit the non-partier look) or they think I’m a total loser. Which is fine, because I probably am. But I’m happy too. :)</p>
<p>I hate parties. I never drank or anything like that in high school, and I went to a club one of my first nights in college and I almost cried (I’m not kidding) because I was so miserable at it. I just think all the hooking up and messed up people are disgusting and trashy. Sometimes I feel kinda bored and lonely because everyones always out at night and I’m chilling in my dorm watching movies alone, but I know I wouldn’t be any happier if I was at the clubs.</p>
<p>Do you feel better now that you have proclaimed your abstinence from alcohol and partying? No **** there are people who would rather engage in different activities than complete debauchery and utter revelry. I respect anyone who decides to not partake in drinking/partying/fornicating under the influence/consuming any drugs, however, abstaining from such activities does not make you better or less ‘trashy’ than others.</p>
<p>I get really annoyed when people say things like this.
I respect your idea of fun, to each his own, but why must you think people who don’t party aren’t having as much fun as you? I’m miserable at parties, I have fun other ways. Shocking, isn’t it? :o</p>
<p>I’m not in college yet, but I don’t think I’m gonna be too crazy about parties either. Some people think that because their away from their parents, they won’t get caught. But there is campus police, and the police that is stationed in the town that the college is in.
What I probably will do though is go to bars with my friends once I turn 21.</p>
<p>When I was younger I had always thought the purpose of higher education was for learning, and boy was I wrong.</p>
<p>I’d like to spend the best years of my life learning; and I would like to remember everything that I did(Yes, Everything). I don’t really think the status quo “College should be the best four years of your life so you should go and party/drugs/havesex all the time because afterward you will be stuck in a cubicle” doesn’t really apply to a mind like mine.</p>
<p>Is the ability to enjoy frat parties genetic? </p>
<p>I <em>try</em> to enjoy them, because they always /seemed/ fun. See I find private dorm room parties are quite fun for me (till people insist on going outside to smoke), but I have major social anxiety around strangers.</p>
<p>I disagree with the attitude that since college is the best 4 years of our lives, we should spend it partying. It’s immature and disregards the main reason for attending college: to get an education.</p>
<p>However, I can’t say that I dislike partying; I really do enjoy it most of the time, but I definitely try to keep it to once a weekend. I never really drink that much either - just enough to loosen up</p>
<p>I really appreciate those quiet nights curled up in my bed watching a movie, even if all my friends are out getting drunk.</p>