<p>This year will be my first year living on campus at Ohio State, and I was wondering, how much debauchery really goes on at college? It seems like movies just portray them as this huge drunken sex fest where everyone is getting drunk and having huge amounts of random sex with each other. Is this even remotely accurate? It also seems like people have this general consensus that it is full of sex and parties all the time. Is this really true? Was or has your experience at college been filled with any of these things?</p>
<p>None of my friends get drunk and hook up with random guys. I really don’t know anyone who does that, but I go to a small school. If/when hookups happen, they are between people who know eachother.</p>
<p>The laws of nature/ Darwin remain even in a college setting.</p>
<p>The reasons why it might be ‘easier’ to hook up in college is because there are so many young people around you who are mostly single.</p>
<p>However, a person’s ability to attract a woman, either by his looks, money, personality, attitude, style, or humor – remains the same, i.e. except for the fact that you grow and mature during college. In other words, some Megan-Fox lookalike is not going to randomly decide to shag you, perfect stranger, at a random party because ‘it’s college’.</p>
<p>Parties? Eh from my experience at my university there are one or two a week, some are good, some are great, many suck, and they can get redundant by senior year (where you move to the bars a bit more, heh).</p>
<p>So it’s not animal house, but it’s still a freakin’ great time so just relax. You’ll be there soon enough and figure it out in a couple weeks.</p>
<p>In all honesty, yes, sex and parties are everywhere at most schools. BUT…they are totally avoidable if you so desire (as I do, at least for the sex part – I’m not interested in seeing/hearing about whatever escapades are occurring/have occurred).</p>
<p>Yes and No. A lot of people are on their own for the first times in their lives. They will see this as an opportunity to break free from the rules their parents wanted them to live by. As a result, a lot of people will make bad decisions with alcohol and sex. If you go looking for them, parties are very easy to find. If you choose to partake in Greek life, these parties are even easier to find. If you cannot find a party, the local bars will be full of people looking to have a good time. At those parties, there are a lot of single people who are typically intoxicated, so random hookups are more prevalent. As easy as it is to find all of this, it is just as easy to avoid by surrounding yourself with a different crowd.</p>
<p>Parties prevalent - a definite yes at my school (definite yes to Ohio State as well). Sex - I’d say yes to that as well, although it depends on the people you hang out with. There are plenty of those who do the hook-up scene, but my friends primarily stick to the relationships/dating scene. In general, parties/sex definitely are major topics of interest to college students… movies exaggerate the frequency in which these things are done but not by too much in my experience. Parties generally aren’t as wild as you see them in the movies, but once in a while you’ll encounter particularly interesting ones…</p>
<p>OSU student here, and the answer your question, its not entirely accurate maybe on the weekends but the weekdays were generally quiet.</p>
<p>If it helps to know, my life is super boring, pretty much the same as HS minus parents, and I know lots of people who live on and around campus and that have pretty sedate lives at OSU.</p>