Stanford Parties

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<p>I've read like two posts on this topic in Stanford but they were all a couple years old...so I thought I might as well ask it now, before school officially starts. </p>

<p>I'm going to be a freshman at Stanford this year, and though I've heard millions of comments about academics, rigor, expectations, and etc, I haven't heard much about the parties/night life. </p>

<p>Many of the people I've met through the FB group have told me they "don't drink" or "won't party." And I totally respect that, but that's definitely not what I plan on doing...</p>

<p>I've lived in a country where there is no real drinking age, and so I've been drinking since I was a freshman in high school. Yes, I've gone clubbing and to house parties many times. I always drink responsibly and I know my limit. I'm always sure to do it with friends so on the offchance I drink too much, I know there's someone to back me up. </p>

<p>I've read on the internet about a REALLY strict alcohol policy...how parties have to be registered and how strict they are on underage drinking (something about wristbands?). It even said that drinking games, shots, and hard liquor are all forbidden. The parties themselves are apparently kind of lame according to a lot of things I read, though I dunno if that's true or not. </p>

<p>I know going to college isn't about going to parties, and it should be about focusing on studying, but I really wanted to have that as a college experience...Ahh, I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression by posting this but this has been on my mind all summer. All my friends have gone off to move in already, and are constantly telling me about how crazy a time their having, going out to frat parties like every night. Obviously, I know how important the work is and how hard it's going to be, but I do want to have my share of ragers (and alcohol, despite being 18...)</p>

<p>tl;dr:</p>

<p>How are the parties at Stanford? Is it really hard for freshmen to get alcohol? Do people really follow the no underage drinking, no hard liquor, no shots, no games rule? Does having the parties be registered negatively affect what they're like? AAANNDD basically... WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT?!</p>

<p>Also...what do you wear to frat parties as a girl o.O</p>

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<p>You probably won’t have any trouble finding beer/wine if you want it.</p>

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<p>aaron swartz’s description of a stanford party:</p>

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<p>From what I understand, you will find alcohol available but if the campus police catch you with it or find you drunk somewhere, you will be sent to the county jail. </p>

<p>So I suggest that you avoid clubbing.</p>

<p>There are plenty of weekend night events for those who want to stay away from alcohol or any peer pressure to imbibe.</p>

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<p>I grew up in a place that was pretty lax about drinking too. But just remember you’re there for studying, and don’t go overboard with drinking. Im sure you can find alcohol - I’m an incoming freshman too so I’m not so sure - but just make sure you drink responsibility! And yeah, don’t go clubbing! You don’t want to wind up in county jail >.<</p>

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<p>OP,</p>

<p>I can’t speak for Stanford but at Brown we (fraternities) had to register our parties and provide wrist bands. We “checked IDs” at the door and gave wrist bands to everyone who was “over 21.” We then made sure to “only serve people who had wristbands.” Registering it meant it could be as loud as we wanted and as big as fire code let us - contrast that to a group of people having an unregistered party which is at risk of noise complaints and police being called (only ever saw this off campus where you can’t register a party anyway). We did follow the no shots rule when serving drinks at our official bar (also the liquor we bought was so cheap that you wouldn’t want to drink it straight), we didn’t have a no hard liquor rule. At our big parties we followed the no glass bottles rule as well.</p>

<p>Our big, registered parties didn’t have games because there wasn’t space for it. Our smaller unregistered ones had a beer pong table but other than that, again, not enough space. Usually only our pre-games had people extensively playing games.</p>

<p>It should not be hard at all to find a party.</p>