<p>eh, you just learn to live with it, especially once you get a few lagers in you. as much as I love metal I have to accept that most people would rather dance to top 40 than mosh to some metal.</p>
<p>latino music is pretty good though, we’ve played that a few times and it’s much more fun to dance to and it’s actually decent.</p>
<p>personal preference. there are lots of things people do for fun, and if partying is one of them, cool! if not, that’s fine too.</p>
<p>Music at parties should appeal to the most people possible and be easy to dance to, extra points if there are words everyone knows because drunk people like to sing. So usually that goes to Top 40 stuff or hip-hop. </p>
<p>Around here though (don’t know why) most parties will either be playing dubstep or some other fairly popular EDM (if you’re lucky) or crappy hip-hop, which is sooo annoying to me. Not much Top 40 stuff. When we throw parties at my apartment we try to have a mix of everything, though my roommate and I usually hijack the speakers and play house :D</p>
<p>Just hanging around with a few friends in an apartment (with drinks) is fun, not going to these huge parties with the loud music and such.</p>
<p>when you’re drunk, nothing else matters</p>
<p>Partying is not what is the definition of a good time to college students. You usually do not have fun at any random party. They do it because they feel SOCIALLY OBLIGATED and they are too lazy or insecure to think of something they actually WANT to do. That’s it.</p>
<p>^Not a surprising response given your screename.</p>
<p>I’d agree that there’s an element of social obligation to freshman partying. I don’t agree that most don’t have fun at any given party, though. I had lots of fun, but I did feel kind of like I was supposed to go out at least twice a week. I felt really lonely and like I was missing out if I didn’t go out. Now that I have my own apartment and closer friends who like different things, it’s a lot nicer.</p>
<p>I personally never go to parties. I don’t find them fun, I hate loud noises and drinking. 
However, my friends and I have LAN parties a lot and those I like ;)</p>
<p>Why the heck does this matter to you people? If you don’t like partying, don’t go partying. Stop trying to ruin the fun of others because you’re a party pooper. How about why the hell do you find it so fun to make stupid threads complaining about the lives of others when you should worry about your own life. Now THAT’S a better question.</p>
<p>While I agree with most of what you’ve said, Pj, and that people who do not like to party should stay out of the business of people who DO like to party, it starts to become a problem when their habits affect people who clearly don’t like to party. People like me, for example. </p>
<p>People like me (and probably most ‘hard’ science majors) like to get a decent amount of sleep so that it is easier to function during the day. My roommate, on the other hand, is somebody who parties non stop, is a hard science major and, needless to say, is failing. </p>
<p>For the last five days now, he has been coming in our room ****-faced at ungodly hours of the night (3 am, 4am, 2am, etc.). Unfortunately what he fails to understand is that I wake up easily, so when he enters the room like an imbecile, I wake up and have a hard time going back to sleep. This is not good.</p>
<p>It’s not that I care whether he parties or not, but I start to care when common decency and mutual respect is ignored for the sake of getting “totally hammered bro.” </p>
<p>I do worry about my own life. In fact, I don’t give a **** about most other people and their habits. It’s just when it starts to affect ME in an adverse way, then I have the right to question their moronic habits because it affects ME and MY life. </p>
<p>Deal with it.</p>
<p>The way I see it: live and let live.
If partying’s for you, that’s cool. If it’s not, that’s cool too, but you have no right to go around criticizing other people’s choices, unless it’s negatively affecting you, such as with the poster above me.
You said it yourself, you don’t know most of the people at parties. So why does it matter to you what they do?</p>
<p>XelbMS - You make a great point. Loud, annoying drunk people affect the people around them as well. </p>
<p>I personally have a problem because drunk people seem inexplicably drawn towards my service dog and they bother her. A few weeks ago I had to call security on one person who wouldn’t leave me/my dog alone.
It’s one thing for people to party, another to annoy other people who want nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>I think the best argument put out for partying hard during your College years by a man known as Jeffy.</p>
<p>“when you look back on your life as you lay dying, do you want to look back and see that you had a lame life? No, you don’t. You want it to be like an action movie with awesome guitar solos and guns.” </p>
<p>Obviously paraphrase but this is the message. As for whether it is fun or not, depends on your attitude. If you don’t think its fun and label people who have fun as “d-bags” or “sluts,” you are simply jealous that they are having fun. Be happy they are having fun and join them. If you don’t enjoy parties, please do not go to a party and stand there awkwardly judging others. Go explore your town or hang out with friends to maybe catch a movie or eat out.</p>