<p>I don't attend parties or anything. My school is not a big party school and only people who are in fraternities and sororities parties. My daily life consist of waking up, going to class, eat with a few friends, go back to dorm, chill, then come back out for classes and on some days of the week, clubs. I feel like I am missing out the college life. What is your normal day of college? Anyone here who doesn't party or am I not normal?</p>
<p>Me! Yeah, my college is NOT a party school and I’m finding the most exciting things that I do with people are watch tv or movies, or once in a blue moon go out to a restaurant. My campus is in the middle of nowhere and before I had a car, I would literally go weeks without getting of of the property.</p>
<p>I don’t party, and I’m absolutely fine with it. To be honest, the main reasons I don’t are that I don’t have time or the opportunity. I’m a bit of an introvert though, so I have turned down quite a few invitations and instead spent the evening doing homework/watching Harry Potter with my boyfriend.</p>
<p>I must say… not partying in college is NOT a bad thing. Sure, it is fine to enjoy your stay at the school in which you have earned the right to attend, but you attend school to learn. The privilege of college attendance should not be wasted, and a lack of partying during this time is something to be celebrated, not condemned.</p>
<p>@AndySmith, your last line makes it seem like partying itself should be condemned, which is a pretty loaded implication. I personally don’t think partying is such a terrible thing, as long as academics come first. If you can keep up academics and have a social life (which does not necessarily mean getting drunk every week) then you will be happier. Partying is one way to socialize in college, and it is part of the stereotypical experience just like many other things. </p>
<p>Back to the OP, don’t worry about it, partying or not partying makes no difference in the long run as long as you’re happy.</p>
<p>I also feel like I’m missing out, but as a serious introvert, I feel far more comfortable relaxing at the dorm, study, etc than doing anything else. I’m trying to muster up the motivation to do things, but … ehh. :/</p>
<p>My school is a party school. </p>
<p>My average day is like yours. Once in a while I might go to a party (which I don’t find all that fun) or go to a bar/bar crawl. Most people don’t party every weekend, at least most people I know. </p>
<p>If you feel like you are missing out go to the bar or a party (at my school it’s fairly easy to go to one). If you don’t like it at least you know and you tried it out.</p>
<p>I don’t go to parties (doesn’t help I’ve never been invited to one before), but even if I were given an invite, I don’t think I would go. If it’s anything like I suspect it would be - loud music, drinking, etc. - it wouldn’t be my kind of thing.</p>
<p>Maybe you should just get drunk one time </p>
<p>just one time</p>
<p>I don’t party either, I go to class, eat alone (most of the time) and come back to the dorm until I have to go to work.</p>
<p>I pass most my time working/studying but I do have a few people I maintain constant contact with in school and others back at home. I am fairly introverted so it doesn’t bug me all that much but I am in a few clubs and have obligations to those so it makes up a fair portion of my social activity. Also the dorm events can be pretty good to go to just to see familiar faces.</p>
<p>College for me has been one boring day after another. I’m in my second year now and this is literally how every weekday goes during school:</p>
<p>-Wake up at 7:45am
-Go to classes at my community college
-Come home for lunch around noon or 1.
-If I have night classes down at the university that I co-admit at, I go down there. If not, continue homework till dinner around 6.
-Continue doing homework if I still have any. If I don’t, play video games for an hour or two.
-Work out around the house. Run on the treadmill and weight lift.
-Video games or homework until bed.
-Repeat.</p>
<p>I’m just living the college dream. The weekends aren’t much better. Replace the going to classes with more homework and replace the sitting around playing video games at night with having the same friend come over for a few hours everyday Saturday.</p>
<p>Typing this out made me realize how much I miss high school.</p>
<p>Partying is not the only way to be social!! Plan day trips with a group of friends, join a class (like kayaking or yoga), or just chill with people in your dorm who aren’t partying. Or, take your clubs up another notch and become more involved in those! Find a project to work on, or decide to take on a long term task ( like writing each member of your extended family to get updates on how they’re all doing). Find something you like to do and go with that!</p>
<p>Darth33: ur days sound a lot like mine. I’m an introvert and have social anxiety, so can’t really complain. Wish I could change though.</p>
<p>Today is Wednesday and I went to 2 parties. This is rush week though. On a normal week, most people go to the bar or the apartments if they are not in a fraternity.</p>
<p>wake up, go to class, come back chill, go back to class, get food come back to my dorm and eat. play video games, walk around the building repeat.
no parties or nothing, im cool with it but what i thought college was going to be for me is all a lie i tell myself.</p>
<p>Let me tell you, I go to a school where there is one party every weekend and it gets busted within an hour or two. Doesn’t mean my whole existence at school is boring! My first advice would be to go to a party. You can’t pass judgement on something until you try it. Second, get creative. On party-less nights my friends and I have broken onto the roof of an academic building to fly kites, gone on drives to explore the cute towns around us, gone to movies, plays, and parks, had game nights in the dorm, etc. etc. It’s more about having a positive attitude than anything else. And good company!</p>