<p>I really loved UCSB but after reading all the posts and review about how it is all party I am scared to death to go there! I have a good friend who goes there and told me to stay away. What is it really like for people who are normal and want to have fun without the drinking, sex and everything else?</p>
<p>eh are you 12</p>
<p>I’m interested in your reasoning as to why you think people who are normal don’t enjoy drinking or sex.</p>
<p>yeah maybe u should try both…</p>
<p>Or you could just avoid both…really I highly doubt that all there is to do is parties and sex so just find something else…</p>
<p>If you think “normal” people don’t drink or have sex, you probably shouldn’t be going to UCSB.</p>
<p>You should probably grow up.</p>
<p>What the **** is up with you guys? I have never been to UCSB, but I can promise you that there are people there that don’t drink. Not EVERYBODY drinks.</p>
<p>I’m really just curious as to why the OP thinks normal people aren’t interested in drinking or sex. Not because I’m offended, I would genuinely like to hear about the thinking behind that.</p>
<p>UCSB has a reputation here as being a party school. But, I’m quite positive there will be people who don’t drink; not everyone decides to go to UCSB for parties and drinking. In fact, some probably haven’t even heard of the stereotype. There will be freshman there next year going, “what did i get myself into?” lol. you could be friends with them =)</p>
<p>i currently have no plans on doing underage drinking or sex. of course, that’s all subject to change, but i don’t think it will. if i get judged for that (which i will here and at cornell) then so be it. really do not care</p>
<p>Isla Vista on a Friday night is a writhing, revelrous mass of sweaty bodies and dirty red cups of jungle juice. It’s a beautiful and horrible thing. It’s like making sweet, beautiful love to a disgusting hooker.</p>
<p>Give it a chance. Especially on Halloween. Tens of thousands of people flood the streets all weekend. It is a truly incredible place. Peter Pan’s Neverland meets a frat party. You’ll be sitting in a stranger’s house smoking a cigarette with your feet propped up on a stereo speaker that doubles as a coffee table and look out the window to see the next-door neighbor is walking on the roof with a beer in his hand at 10 in the morning and he will send you a wave. It is then, and only then, that you will realize how awesome a place it is.</p>
<p>I don’t plan to be drinking either so you won’t be the only one.By the way, what’s awesome to one person I guess is not always that amazing to the next. Describing a morning where I’m sitting in a stranger’s house, smoking a cigarette with my feet propped up while a man is running around on the roof next door drinking doesn’t exactly sound awesome to me. I guess my definition of awesome is different :)</p>
<p>Normal people enjoy drinking and sex, just like some normal people enjoy not drinking and not having sex.
Don’t be so scared. People aren’t going to be mean to you if you don’t drink, and if they are, they aren’t worth being around.
Though I will say, there’s nothing wrong with preparation, so maybe find out things like Blood-Alcohol-Limits, what different types of alcohol will mean (for instance, find out that tequila gets you drunk much faster than beer). And also look into how to use birth control and/or condoms. Better to be safe than sorry.</p>
<p>Oh, and the most annoying drunks tend to be the kids who never had alcohol before college and never meant to drink. Just throwing that little tidbit in there.</p>
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Sometimes I regret not going to a state school.</p>
<p>I did not mean that normal people do not drink or have sex. I was referring to myself that just because I don’t drink does’t mean I am not normal or do I care if others drink. I just have the image of UCSB being a free for all drunk fest. Maybe I should go to Berkeley! Have two days to decide.</p>
<p>If you’re so offended by partying, go to Berkeley. Hope you’re not offended by marijuana.</p>
<p>You WILL NOT HAVE FUN at UCSB if you are not interested in drinking and casual sex. If you are looking for relationships and normal friendships you will be hard pressed to find that here at UCSB. Trust me, I was really let down by the party culture so far this year, made virtually no friends i hang out with outside of class or convenience.</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that it’s usually freshmen who think there is no fun without alcohol. Anyone who’s actually had a drink before their freshman year of college understands partying is a little overrated. By the time I was a sophomore in high school I’d already had the “freshman experience” (code for getting super drunk and doing stupid things as often as possible), so by college it really wasn’t a novelty anymore. Some people need that first year to go nuts. Others don’t. Others have already had it and would rather smoke some weed or go see a band play.</p>