It being my last day in my summer program, I thought it would be a great idea to bring alcohol and drink with some friends in my dorm. Long story short, my RA found out and dumped the alcohol and took it and took me to the hospital. I woke up in the hospital pretty confused but my coordinator was there. Is there any way this occurrence will end up on my record? Im so scared of getting a MIP or just for it to show on my permanent record.
“ is there any way” it will end up on your record??
You suffered alcohol poisoning, had to go to the ER, and blacked out the whole experience, “waking up” at some point to find the coordinator there.
Don’t you think the RA has to fill out a complete report upon her return? and that the coordinator did likewise?
I’m going with An overwhelming YES in terms of it landing on your record.
The good news is that she found you in time.
Just wait until your parents start getting your hospital bills, you might want to give them a heads up if they don’t know already.
Are you getting college credit and you are wondering if this incident will show up on your transcript? Unlikely. The bills will surprise you and I agree with the poster above about the need to prepare the parents.
Or are you a high school student?
My parents already know and I’m paying for all costs, no police seemed to have been alerted. I am in high school.
At a minimum I would think it would impact your application at the school who’s summer program you attended. Was it a school you aspired to attend?
At this point should be a lessened learned. Everyone does stupid stuff, some get caught and unfortunately as you get older you will realize there are consequences. Sounds like in this instance you will pay a price but could have been far worse. I assure you that you weren’t the first kid to drink underage and or get caught. Not to minimize it but focus on looking forward and hang in there.
I was thinking of attending the school. Ive just been reading everything about this and it seems like you just get a slap on the wrist. I’m terrified of the consequences and I know i should have thought of them before doing anything and I wish i could go back in time. Im just terrified of it being on my record permanently.
Being on your “permanent record” is not the thing you should be terrified about.
what should I be terrified about then?
Unless the summer program is affiliated with your high school in some way, no it’s not going to go on your high school record. However, if you were taking the summer program to earn college credit from that school, it could end up on your permanent record with them. You would have to ask them - you might request an official copy of your transcript to see what they will send to other schools. Of course if the program was almost, but not quite over, you might have forfeited your credit anyway.
As mentioned above, don’t be ungrateful. If you passed out, you were more than just “intoxicated.” You have a problem more pressing than something appearing on your permanent record (and more pressing than the hospital bills). If you were my kid, you would have a long way to go to earn my trust to pay for you to attend a residential college - if you’re a rising Senior, you would be applying to local schools where you can commute.
I would be really questioning your judgment as well and not ready to send you to anything other than a commuter program. You showed very poor judgment and I’d want you assessed and in an alcohol treatment program. You drank A LOT of alcohol and showed awful judgment.
I was an RA back in the day and we did not alert anyone but did file reports. But the thing you should realize is that you need to be more mature going into this part of your life. Last day at the summer program and you are so intoxicated you were confused upon waking up from a black out? As others have said you need to to get a grip and focus on your health and well being and what choices you made leading up to that. Please write thank you notes with a sorry and learned my lesson email/letter/note to the RA and Coordinator. They took care of you, cared about you, and likely had to leave others to do so. Please figure out how this went down so you will not repeat the incident in high school/college/grad school
At my school it gets filed as an incident report with the housing admin. The student rarely will get an MIP. Be glad that the RA helped you out and use this as a learning experience when you actually go to college. You do not want to be blacking in a non controlled environment like a fraternity party.
Your initial post lacked enough detail to know for sure, but I inferred from it that you blacking out wasn’t all that surprising to you. If true, and you regularly drink enough to be in such a state, you clearly have more significant worries than the permanent record issue you are fixated on. If this is the first time it ever happened, one would think that waking up in the hospital might have been pretty traumatic, and that might have been a greater focus in your post.
^^This! If this was the first time something like this has ever happened to you and you don’t normally drink, be grateful the RA found you and consider it an tough lesson learned. Rookie mistake done in a big way!
If you drink regularly and particularly if you have blacked out before, you may want to talk to someone. I know kids party and talk about partying, like it’s fun snd cool, but this is really dangerous to your health.
Odds are the incident will not appear on anything that will be shared with a collrge.
@RandyErika This was the first time anything like this has ever happened to me. I have never drank until this point. I’m disgusted by my poor judgement and honestly shocked on why im so selfish. The reason i didn’t focus on the hospital visit was because honestly I cared more about the consequences such as what’ll do to my chances of getting into college or if ill be charged with something. Im horrified and disgusted by my actions and i have undoubtedly disappointed everyone around me and i’m fixated on my record because once I know if im not going to be charged with anything then i can start with damage control. I was earning no college credit from this program.
@llizara Thank you for the clarification. The good news is that you’ve learned a valuable life lesson - or two. I’m guessing that this won’t result in any legal consequences, unless there’s more to the story or I missed something.
Unless you somehow end up with a HS transcript that references the matter, I can’t imagine it would impact your future college prospects - the one obvious exception being the college where this summer program incident occurred. Unfortunately I would think it unlikely that they would offer you admission, and I’m sure you understand why that might be.
Be glad you were the one that passed out, and not one of your new friends. The hospital most likely has to file a report, but since you’re a HS student, and presumably a minor, it’s not likely to go far. But if one of the other students had ended up in the hospital, and you had provided the alcohol, you could be in significantly more trouble.
The fact that you’re worrying about the consequences more than what got you the point where you drank that much is troubling - it suggests that you are not in fact as horrified and disgusted as you claim. If you were horrified, you would be asking how to get help to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Nobody here knows what the consequences will be, because we don’t know what the policies are of the program you attended, not do we know the policies of the hospital you visited.
You should be starting damage control now - damage control is figuring out whether your actions were truly impulsive (not likely, you had to acquire the alcohol), and why you thought this would be a good idea. Another part of damage control is understanding why you drank that much, and what you can do to prevent this from happening again. Either you were binge drinking, which is extremely unsafe, or you didn’t know when to stop. Both are signs of a “drinking problem.” You need to learn to stay away from alcohol, particularly in social settings. Get your priorities straight!
The phrase “damage control” is also troubling. It implies that you’re looking to package the problem in a better light. It doesn’t imply any sort of inclination to fix the problem.