<p>Okay, so tonight I came home from the library with a freind around 10:30 PM. I saw a lot of people dressed up to go to some party on Strathmore. Well, he was wondering how do these kids manage to do that on a Thursday night?</p>
<p>many north campus students are able to have a schedule with no class on fridays. pretty much impossible for south campus students since the math/science classes typically have MWF lectures. either that, or they just skip class, or goto class half asleep and hungover. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>eh my roommate has classes on fridays, she's in a sorority and she goes out to parties almost every night. Like right now... she's not even back yet and it's 1:30am. Oh and she's a bio chem major I think. Some people can deal with it I guess. ::shrug::</p>
<p>i'm a biochem major...and i'm partying with my lab notebook right now. hoorah! i honestly dont know how anyone can survive being a science major and still party all the time. they'd have to be super genius and not have to study or be completely stupid and choosing to royally screw themselves academically just to get drunk.</p>
<p>It is times like these when you know who is going to make the "cut".
Good job, guys.</p>
<p>I dunno, I just don't feel like being able to party once in a while and being able to do well in school are so mutally exclusive. Obviously, a lot of people get out of control with one thing or another, and if you had to choose one, studying obsessively is probably a lot better for your long term future than partying obsessively.</p>
<p>At the same time, there are a lot of hours during the day, and if college students are good at doing one thing, it's wasting time. If people could focus and actually get things done in a timely manner, then you will have a lot more free time than you think you do. Obviously, if you are working a job to support yourself or commuting everyday, you're facing a whole different kind of time pressure, but if you're the average college student, you've still got some time to play with. I'm a CS major, pretty hard by any standard, don't have the best grades but I'm doing alright, but hey my job outlook and future's still looking pretty decent. But hey, if me and my friends wanna go out for a beer on a weeknight, and academically my work is straight or well in progress, I don't see what should stop me.</p>
<p>Things become a problem when you let them become a problem. If you become obsessed with partying, spend all your time gossiping who's going with who, then yes it can be a problem. But at the same time, it's healthy to have some balance in your life. Really, what's more healthy, spending 4+ hours a day sitting in your room watching TV (as the average American does), spending all day at your computer playing WoW, or going out to drink and party once or twice a week? At least when you go out you're socializing with people. I'm not knocking any of those things, in fact I appreciate all those things a bit. But it is possible to study hard and enjoy the History Channel and enjoy the occassional video game and enjoy the occassional beer at the same time.</p>
<p>Live life just a little bit. We all spend so much time working for the future. When we're kids we work to get into a good college, when we're in college we work to get into a good grad school or a good job. Once you have a good job, you work for a good retirement, you work to buy a good house, you work to set up your kids for a good future. And all those things are valid concerns, I've never been someone to advocate just blowing your responsibilities, especially when so many other people and your future rely on you. But when are you gonna live for yourself? When you finally retire with a nice cushion and stable situation? How do you even know if you'll even make it to retirement or if things will ever work out as you all planned? Things happen along the way, some of them good, some of them not so good.</p>
<p>The world is changing faster than ever. In the old model that we used to have, professions didn't change as much, technologies didn't change as much nearly as quickly as they have and will continue to in the span of our lifetimes. The knowledge I learn today in my major will almost certainly be obsolete by the time I'm 40, probably 30, and some punk kid will be willing to do my job more efficiently and for less than I will. I'm just saying, the future is now. We don't live in years, we live in moments, and a moment is something that no span of time could measure. Enjoy what you have right now cause that moment you've always look forward to might never happen.</p>
<p>So if you like to party on a Thursday night, that's your thing, and if not partying is your thing, then that's cool too. I just would never judge anyone based on one thing alone. Some people will waste away their college education getting wasted, some people will waste away their lives never enjoying those moments that they have. I just hope most people can enjoy everything for what they are.</p>
<p>^yes, that. </p>
<p>and you'll find that if anything, thursdays are the biggest party night here.</p>
<p>i heard thursday are the biggest night b/c north campus = no or very late class on fridays, and people go home on weekends.</p>
<p>i can understand north campus peop;le partying all the time. but south campus, well, they arent going to med school.</p>
<p>yeah McGizzle has good points. i wasnt implying one should lock themselves in a room and study 24/7. but there are students that are excessive party goers and their academic success suffers accordingly. it's all about moderation. perfectly normal and necesary to hang loose once in a while. but prudent south campusers definitely have less party time available to them than north campusers.</p>