<p>Hi,
So I love to have a good time and party, but I'm not into drinking or drugs, and I hate being around people who do it. What are your opinions of the substance free floors? I want to meet a lot of cool people and go to parties, just not drink. Are you allowed to do this if your on a substance free floor? Are the people on these floors weird? Will I have the same college experience?
Any insight would lovely :) thanks!!</p>
<p>if you choose the substance free floors i’m sure you can still get the most out of your college experience simply because you’re not limited to just your floor, obviously. you can go to other parties, etc. but i can’t say if those people are weird cause i have no experience with this subject. but i don’t see why you can’t party on a substance free dorm. party doesn’t necessarily mean drinking and drugs.</p>
<p>I personally am against substance-free floors.</p>
<p>I have known a few people who have lived on them, and they were very judgemental about EVERYTHING. Even if you don’t drink, you probably don’t want to be around really judgemental people. Or maybe you’ll find you like to drink occasionally, just a little. You never really know. Some of the weirder people I met also lived in a sub-free dorm…that’s completely anecdotal but it was true for me. </p>
<p>My suggestion would be to choose a dorm that isn’t necessarily substance-free, but isn’t known for partying. Just a plain old quieter dorm. Most of the hard partiers will want to live in party dorms, so you’ll be left with the people who probably aren’t into drinking (at least not heavily) but still might be cool. They’ll probably have a wider range of interests…you don’t want to write people off just because they drink and you don’t want to live with a bunch of people who are essentially doing just that.</p>
<p>Also, why would you want to go to parties if you don’t like being around people who are drinking? Not saying you have to drink to go to a party, but that is essentially what a party is…being around people who are drinking.</p>
<p>Thank you!!</p>
<p>And, I don’t mind going to parties and being around drinking, but I can leave whenever I want. If people are partying and drinking nonstop in your dorm, you can’t really get away from it. I would prefer people not drinking excessively in my living quarters, that’s all.</p>
<p>No one parties and drinks nonstop…</p>
<p>My experience is that the substance free kids are pretty normal-- many of them even do drink, they just don’t bring it home with them. I guess this varies a lot by school. I never lived in a substance free hall but I wouldn’t be against it, I never really made friends with my dorm-mates anyway and don’t feel like I suffered socially because of it-- and it’s REALLY nice to come home to a clean, quiet dorm at night instead of to a party. I feel like that’d be your worst case scenario and that wouldn’t be that bad. There are LOTS of other places to make friends in college if your hallmates turn out to be too conservative for you. Though, for some people not being sure they can make friends with their hallmates is a dealbreaker, so that’s up to you. Personally I didn’t care.</p>
<p>Don’t know if she realized it in advance, but 2nd-year dau is in a “quiet dorm” this year. It’s a little different than substance-free, but she mentioned how much she loves that when she’s in her room, the noise around her is toned down. And, she can still find loud parties on campus, when she wants them.</p>
<p>There were more hard drugs on the substance free floors than anywhere else when I was in college. It’s about 25% people that want to be there and 75% people who’s parents made them be there, usually for a reason.</p>
<p>^You do have to think about what your definition of a “hard drug” is. It’s different for everyone.</p>
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