If you think you would hate the military, USMA isn’t the place for you. After you graduate, military members can still have normal lives. Yes, there’s always a possibility of deployment, but the extended boot camp experience ends after you commission. If you want to party and meet lots of girls, neither Purdue nor the USMA would be the best schools for that. Honestly, I don’t think you’ll be happy at either school. I hope I’m not reading too much into this, but if by party you mean drugs, failing a drug test is the fastest way to get kicked out of the military. All of the services have a zero tolerance policy.