<p>Older son ( Notre Dame grad) was visiting younger son at Princeton. He thought there was way more drinking to excess at Princeton compared to ND. There is plenty of beer at ND, but no keggers or hard liquor in the dorms. The eating clubs (I prefer to call them drinking clubs) are the nexus of the culture of boorish drunkenness at Princeton.</p>
<p>I want to support Saugus. I was homeschooled, but now take classes in high school and in community college and I do not drink and do not see the need to drink to relax or have fun. I have a very busy and stressful schedule and had it for years( I started close to full time in community college since age 12) but does use that as an excuse to drink. I am very social, have close friends, love sports, and have a lot of fun watching basketball games (go Lakers!) or play ping-pong with my friends; few of them who are 21 or 24 choose not to drink. And no, I am not a religious fanatic. I just think that drinking is not synonym with fun; you do not need it to have fun. And it bothers me that drinking may be so intertwined with social life at Princeton.</p>
<p>sorry, correction. It should read does NOT use that as an excuse to drink! And do not not talk to me about Freudian slips! :)</p>
<p>haha Olive we sound like the same person. Starting community college at 12, etc.</p>
<p>And tbh I could care less about drinking although I don't think I will ever get involved</p>
<p>Nice to hear from you and you are right lolcats4! it is really weird. I also know that like me you were rejected at Stanford and got a likely from Columbia!!! What do your other decisions look like. Maybe with the both of us we can make sense of this crazy process and finally get a clue :) Or maybe we are just both weird cases!</p>
<p>sorry correction again! "with the two of us" or "with both of us" Need to proof my emails next time. Do not want to spoil CC with English errors lol</p>
<p>@higgins: That might be because ND has a wet campus so booze loses some of its allure. PLUS, you guys have parietals. That could realllyy put the damper on late night parties.</p>
<p>Yes, but my point is that there is too much drinking to excess at Princeton.</p>
<p>There is some drinking to excess at Princeton. Princeton is right in the center of the drinking at the Ivies bell curve. However there are lots of ways to amuse oneself for those who don't drink. Including going to the clubs, where people are extremely tolerant and accepting of non-drinkers.</p>
<p>let's not be naive. it's st patty's day...what do ya'll think's goin on at colleges across the country or wherever college students are spendin SB? what happens happens and you definitely don't have to take part in those kinds of things if your views are different</p>
<p>@ Olive</p>
<p>No way, another Lakers fan! :) Horrible loss tonight, Iguodala's buzzer beater just completely broke my heart.</p>
<p>Yep Saugus, it was painful :(</p>
<p>lolcats and olive, all three of us sound pretty similar. I'm homeschooled and started community college at 13. At the moment, I am thinking that it might be an interesting change going from a state school with hot, party-every-night-who-cares-about-midterms (not my mentality, obviously) people to a school that perhaps has its human capital aligned differently. Seriously, my two lab partners are models. </p>
<p>lolcats and I have pretty similar admissions stories thus far-- we both have likelies from Columbia and I received the Duke top 350 letter as well. I also got into MIT, so Princeton is really the only school I am waiting on. I might have an interesting drinking/social situation at Princeton or anywhere else for that matter; I'll be 1-2 years younger than the most of the 2013's so I wonder if I'll fall down the social stratification gradient as well as not being able to drink. I'm tall, extroverted and athletic, so it isn't obvious, but it might be noticeable to some.</p>
<p>^ You're a baller.</p>
<p>so your only 16?</p>
<p>I just turned 17, so I'll be 17 for most of freshman year.</p>
<p>sry i was thinking this years age lol</p>
<p>age is alot less important than maturity. if you're socially mature enough then the fact that you're a year or two younger becomes irrelevant. right now i'm living with three 21-yr-olds and everyone we hang out with is 20-23 while i'm only 18, but it's not an issue at all. i mean basically as you get older age differences become less relevant so i wouldn't worry about it</p>
<p>to emersongreen
It seems that Columbia likes our type (going to community college at a young age), as I also got a likely from Columbia. I did not hear from Duke yet. I am also waiting for Princeton. Did you apply to Harvard and Yale? What would be your top choices and why? My first choices probably would be Princeton and Caltech (where I am accepted) It would be tough to decide. Harvard seems too impersonal to me, not as focused on undergraduates; however, I did not visit yet, so I am basing this impression on hearsays.</p>
<p>^ Princeton would provide a way more fun overall undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>Caltech's male/female ratio is like 3:1. lol</p>