<p>^ So… maybe you and the OP should find each other… and other non-drinkers? What a concept! </p>
<p>Proof they do exist… lol</p>
<p>You three IU folks should meet each other and do stuff. You never know how it might turn out</p>
<p>That’s weird, you guys mean Indiana University at Bloomington? I’ve got a good friend there and he says they’re really strict about partying.</p>
<p>I have to share my sentiments with LoonLake. Just don’t get these people who party beyond reasonably … :(</p>
<p>Loon, give Leila a call. You two can commiserate in Bloomington.</p>
<p>Are there substance-free dorms you could try next semester?</p>
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<p>Not true.</p>
<p>On campus they ** try **to act strict, but no one listens and everything goes down off campus anyways. Then everyone comes back to campus at 3AM and then more stuff goes down, but everyone’s already drunk enough so the alcohol isn’t actually consumed on campus. With the exception of a short lived beer pong game, I’ve never seen someone drinking in the dorms because they take the citations pretty seriously. And they couldn’t give a **** about public intox.</p>
<p>For anyone who is looking for a more mature crowd, I definitely would recommend avoiding NW dorms at IU. My D ended up in SE in honors and frankly her experience has been the opposite of what Loonlake has had. I’ve been so glad she ended up where she did. Loon, for what it is worth, one of her friends (a year older) was assigned to NW and hated it, ended up switching rooms, etc and generally had a miserable first few months at IU.</p>
<p>By the end of the first semester, he’d found his like-minded friends (people who care about more than getting drunk) to have fun with. I’m sure there are non-partiers in NW, but it sounds like the culture there is very binge-drinking oriented, which is too bad.</p>
<p>Reading Loonlake’s posts, it sounds like a completely different college than the one my D attends.</p>
<p>Why is everyone here so anti-partying? Learn to adjust to situations in life. You can not always run away from problems because in life you will have to deal with them. So instead of transferring, find a way to adapt to the culture their.</p>
<p>I think things will calm down as the semester progresses, and some people will drop out or transfer. Also, don’t feel compelled to take care of somebody. Unless they are puking or you think they may be entering a bad situation, let them make their own mistakes. You don’t want to turn into the mom. </p>
<p>I can get why drunk people can be annoying, but it is college. There is going to be partying at most schools, and people will drink throughout the week because they can. It will get old for a lot of people. I know I tapered down on going out by the 2nd semester of soph year. But I lived in my sorority house soph year so people were really respectful. Freshmen year there wasn’t too much partying, I lived in a quiet dorm. But it is annoying when people barge in at 3 am to make food. But, that’s part of college. People are obnoxious, that’s life. You have to learn how to deal with it at some point. I also know people who came into college set on not drinking, and now they do. So, you may not be a big drinker now, but you may start drinking more as college goes on.</p>
<p>to the OP: can you take some of IUMom’s post to heart and change dorms? </p>
<p>unfortunately, I think tobacoonchocolat hit the nail on the head on p1 of this thread…</p>
<p>I kinda know what you’re going through. I go to Rutgers, huge party school. Everyone here drinks, beer runs like water here. It was fun the first few times but is starting to get boring. I usually just go out with my dorm mates just for the hell of it.</p>
<p>I also go to a pretty big party school (used to be number 1) and I live in the most notorious party floor at my school pretty much (long story lol). But my school always hosts activities on the weekends that are dry, your school probably has them too, try them out.</p>
<p>PKP4life: When it becomes excessive and interferes in someone’s college life, there is a problem. You would think people would have more consideration for people who actually care about their academics, but that obviously isn’t the case here. It’s pretty sad.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman at IU as well. I don’t drink, even socially, so the weekends have been absolute hell. (My hall has some serious partiers as well.) You could try going to the movies at IMU on weekends, but who knows which of those showings tends to be the least boozy.
Personally, I’m in the middle of attempting to move to a different building and hopefully end up somewhere better. It might be worth a shot to make that switch and have a good reason to try to meet new people and get to know them more than superficially.</p>
<p>I’m originally from Indiana. I go to school on the east coast now, but have tons of friends at IU. I went to visit them on a random weekend and it does have a crazy party culture. IU does have a tendancy of drawing upper middle to upper class students who just didn’t work as hard in hs. I actually went to a prep school in Indiana and the lower third of my class are mostly the ones that ended up at IU. When I visited I went to three parties in one night. I wouldn’t go with the suggestion of moving into an apartment around there because the last party I went to was in an apartment. There were drunk people hanging out windows from every everywhere. B-town is a party town. No matter where you go. You can’t escape it. Rather its a dorm, house, apartment. My only suggestion would maybe be to transfer to IUPUI in Indianapolis. Still some of the same great programs, but not a party school. Good luck.</p>