<p>Never. </p>
<p>Just doesn’t appeal to me for whatever reason…the most I’ve ever had to drink is one and a half mixed drinks and sips of all the stuff under the cabinet over at a friend’s apartment one night. Didn’t feel a thing.</p>
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<p>Please go play in traffic. That level of ignorance is just sad.</p>
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Depends. During finals/midterms, I don’t drink at all, and that’s about a month out of each semester. In between, I drink about twice a week. During the summer, I drink about 4 times a week.</p>
<p>Sidenote: I’m tired of kids who go to 3rd and 4th tier schools and study sociology bragging about their GPA’s inspite of drinking. Before I transfered, I could have smoked crack all day and still gotten a 4.0 GPA. Real college is very different. I don’t think any kids at MIT really party, and many kids struggle just to graduate.</p>
<p>Whatever, most of y’all will work at Applebees anyways. A BA from a non elite school is about equivalent to a GED these days.
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<p>Probably the first post I’ve read in the “College Life” forum where I thought the person writing it might be intelligent and cool to hang out with. Props to you, wutang, and don’t let the childish comments by the other posters bother you. </p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with drinking, or even getting drunk, but realize that doing so on a regular basis does impact your ability to study, in terms of both mental stamina, recall, and comprehension. </p>
<p>Now, a combination of your talent and the ease of your classes might make decent grades possible, but don’t kid yourself; it’s limiting your intelligence and accomplishments. </p>
<p>Again, nothing wrong with that, but the complete lack of self-awareness and indeed, hostility after wutang’s post is hilarious. Such an attitude makes you no better than the holier-than-thou moralists who are “shocked” anyone drinks. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, and his comment about BAs being equivalent to a GED a few decades ago is completely accurate, too, in light of how many traditional American jobs are now being exported to parts of Asia.</p>
<p>You people would do well to recognize this fact sooner rather than later.</p>
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<p>What would you define as drunk? I typically become a lot more excited, talkative, rowdy, and off-balance after a night of drinking, but I’ve never fallen down, puked, or blacked out. (Part of this due to a training regime, and part of it the fear of being too helpless and messed up to take care of myself) </p>
<p>Basically, that makes it either once or twice a week, or zero times in my entire life.</p>
<p>We were hostile because of gems like this
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<p>He’s delusional and ignorant of reality.</p>
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<p>You’re indeed correct about the second statement; I can say from personal experience that a number of MIT students do party. </p>
<p>Again, some are talented enough to be very successful despite this, and many more aren’t. </p>
<p>It’s all a question of what someone wants out of their life, and how much time they want to devote to study. </p>
<p>I can’t say anything negative about an individual who gets drunk every day of their life, as long as it’s a conscious decision, and they’re happy doing it. (To take an extreme example) </p>
<p>As for the first statement…do you have something against Applebees? Listen, it might not be a three star Michelin restaurant, or top the Zakat Guide of any major American city, but it’s far from terrible.</p>
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<p>Are you joking? I think you’re joking, but I was talking about the second part of what he said. About a BA from a non-elite school being equivalent to a GED.</p>
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<p>But the second part is actually correct…a GED several decades ago is equal to a run-of-the-mill BA today. </p>
<p>More people than ever are attending colleges, and the job market is considerably smaller, with so many American jobs being exported to Asia. </p>
<p>Doesn’t mean that someone with that degree can’t rise to the top through either connections or hard work and ingenuity, but the statement is perfectly valid.</p>
<p>I’m not a moralist. I’m a kid who grew up around people shooting heroin, still gets hassled by crackheads on the way back to my parent’s crib, and visits my best friends in jail. </p>
<p>I was also blackout drunk last night, I’m just not proud of it.</p>
<p>Most people who party heavily through college end up living mediocre lives. I drink, and I’d be lying if I said it didin’t effect my GPA. Again, I’ve gone to schools where simply having an IQ over 120-130 was good enough to get a 4.0 with almost no effort.</p>
<p>Also, kids drink at MIT, but a lot of them burn out and some kill themselves.</p>
<p>Also, on a somewhat related note, 3 out of the 4 potheads I knew in my dorm last year failed out of McGill. All of them said that “pot didn’t effect them like that”</p>
<p>Now, I know kids at Harvard who get high now and then and do great, but their not pot heads.</p>
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<p>Maybe <em>some</em> schools are that crappy, but not all non-elites are. </p>
<p>The only way you can possibly stretch that first statement about GEDs into some sort of truth is to say that people from non-elite universities will have a much more difficult time getting their foot in the door at the top of the top firms as interns or new graduates…but that’s not what you said at all.</p>
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The only way you can possibly stretch that first statement about GEDs into some sort of truth is to say that people from non-elite universities will have a much more difficult time getting their foot in the door at the top of the top firms as interns or new graduates…but that’s not what you said at all.
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<p>Christ…read my post again. wutang’s statement about GEDs was probably the most self-evident and non-controversial thing he wrote. I don’t even understand how one can possibly argue against it;</p>
<p>"A GED several decades ago is equal to a run-of-the-mill BA today.</p>
<p>More people than ever are attending colleges, and the job market is considerably smaller, with so many American jobs being exported to Asia.</p>
<p>Doesn’t mean that someone with that degree can’t rise to the top through either connections or hard work and ingenuity, but the statement is perfectly valid."</p>
<p>It’s better to graduate high school than to drop out and get a GED…so how on earth is a BA now the same as a GED a few decades ago? </p>
<p>It just doesn’t make any sense. If you were saying that a high school diploma these days is equal to a GED several decades ago, I’d probably be on board with it…but it makes absolutely no sense the other way around.</p>
<p>The reason I didn’t acknowledge it before now is because of how backwards it sounds…but now that you’re getting all bejiggety about it, there you go.</p>
<p>I’m drunk right now b-tches…so ha!</p>
<p>I’m jealous AU, really jealous!</p>
<p>I cant tell if you are being sarcastic or not… but I choose to believe you are not… and say, I’m sorry yoou are not also drunk. because I feel great right now</p>
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It’s better to graduate high school than to drop out and get a GED…so how on earth is a BA now the same as a GED a few decades ago?
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<p>Maybe you didn’t get a chance to read it, so I’ll simply copy it again, until you can tell me what part you disagree with; </p>
<p>"A GED several decades ago is equal to a run-of-the-mill BA today.</p>
<p>More people than ever are attending colleges, and the job market is considerably smaller, with so many American jobs being exported to Asia.</p>
<p>Doesn’t mean that someone with that degree can’t rise to the top through either connections or hard work and ingenuity, but the statement is perfectly valid."</p>
<p>wutangfinancial, i just saw the Wutang clan @ rock the bells!!! it was effin’ rad man. and RAGE…</p>
<p>In college first semester it was an average of 2-3 times a week. Second semester, when grades in my courses actually started counting, it was an average of 1-2 times a week.</p>
<p>Over the summer I get drunk about once every 1-2 weeks. The legal drinking age where I am is 18, but surprising I drink less.</p>
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<p>This is totally untrue. My school is almost as hard, or as hard, as MIT and loads of people drink. I know one kid who got straight A’s first semester and got wasted a lot. It’s all about time management.</p>
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<p>A lot of people fail out of McGill.</p>
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<p>I know a kid at Harvard who is a pothead and still got a very good GPA. Grade inflation abounds!</p>
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<p>im in high school and i drink like twice a month. i’d drink more but its hard to get out on a school night, plus me and everyone else i know is brokeass poor. i smoke weed a lot though. its not that hard to manage it with school but i expect in college i wont be able to smoke nearly as much cos i’ll need to actually get **** done.</p>
<p>natalie, you’d be surprised. I know potheads pulling off dean’s list and stuff. Most of the ones I know are doing like, at least 3.0… (a philosophy major, and two french/history majors. Philosophy is hard in general–at least for me-- and trust me, I have taken several classes in French and history, and they are not very easy at my school, esp. history). </p>
<p>only one girl I know flunked out, but she shouldn’t have even been at a four-year school in the first place, because she’s did pretty crappy in high school (shoulda went to community college first at least).</p>
<p>1-5 times a weeks, depending on what exactly is going on.</p>
<p>Yup. 5 could possibly be a tad much, but, its college.</p>