My experience has been that a lot of students around here do drink completely irresponsibly and pressure others to do the same, but they same to be a very loud minority that annoy most of us other students. Same with people who go to parties every weekend, in fact. For the most part, if you don’t want to drink, you can find friends who support that. You may be pressured now and then, but it isn’t overwhelming if you hold your ground.
I say that as someone who has an open beer right next to me while procrastinating lounging in my on campus apartment (I’m 24, so I’m allowed :P).
Re: Sex in libraries - at my school (UChicago) the library is literally the hub of campus, but people still manage to have sex in it. There are little reservable study rooms, single user bathrooms, and, of course, the stacks.
Why on earth would you have sex in a library? Absolutely nothing sounds sexy about that.
OP, there will likely be sexual and alcohol education counselors and/or classes at your uni. I’d seek out those resources.
Actually, please seek those out. Don’t Google. Google wants you to think you’re going to get AIDS and die your first semester of college.
I used to work in a community college library. It is disturbing how not unheard of catching people having sex in the group study rooms was.
I don’t go to Brown but I live nearby and I know my friends have used their library studyrooms before for sex lol
@romanigypsyeyes if you’re not immediately aroused when you enter a library, maybe you’re not a true intellectual
Yea I can see that. I mean, I’m not immediately aroused, but usually after I look around a bit I start to.
Well, by tradition, it’s one of the 3 things every Harvard student should do before graduation. The other 2 being peeing on the John Harvard statue and running in Primal Scream
??!?! What kinds of traditions are those? I thought Ivy Leagues were polished, cultured places full of genuine modesty and respect, not cages of licentious buffoonery!
Even with Fox News producer Jesse Watters calling 2005’s SexPowerGod “The wildest party I’ve ever been to” and “totally worth” the $80 he had to pay on the secondary market for a ticket, the Ivy League schools never crack the playboy top party schools lists 
Hahaha well sometimes after working hard all week, we like to have fun and I suppose turn into licentious baffoons. Having sex in the library stacks is one of the things on Cornell’s 161 things to do before graduation, too.
I feel like if you actively want to avoid drinking and such, it’s easy. I go to UW-Madison and even though we’re ranked as a top party school, it’s pretty easy to avoid the party scene. Of course, part of that might be because the student body is huge.
But it’s pretty much a given that lots of people will have alcohol/drugs stashed in their rooms - the university straight up knows that a fair amount of underage students will be drinking/doing drugs, so their main approach is just making sure you know how to keep yourself safe and letting you know that if you do get caught, you’ll get the consequences.
I don’t know how anyone can find a library setting arousing haha- one of our libraries has single study rooms which have been dubbed as “cages” by students, more scary than romantic lol.