<p>I'm interested in attending UT, but I really don't want alcohol to be a big part of my life (as it kinda seems from stories I've heard about UT). </p>
<p>This won't mean I won't have any friends, right? Ha ha...</p>
<p>Also, I've heard of kids who promise they "won't drink" at UT and then when they get there, within a week they already had something...</p>
<p>So anyone care to share their thoughts and experiences?</p>
<p>You should get the definition of "friends" right.</p>
<p>UT is huge. It is so huge that they have a special group for pagans, okay? I saw the tiny little notice in the Daily Texan. You're going to find friends no matter what your creed, race, doctrine, morals, ethics, whatever.</p>
<p>there's 56,000~ people at UT. It's fairly easy to find a group of friends who doesnt drink, and its easy for you to exercise self control and not drink.</p>
<p>That's what I thought too, that it would be somewhat easy to find friends who don't drink at a school of this size. However, a friend of mine who is currently a freshman at UT, said that she has trouble finding new friends who do not drink and it's very hard for her to trust people.</p>
<p>However, I don't know how much she has tried to find non-drinking friends and what kinds of groups she has joined if any.</p>
<p>About the exercising self-control advice, I'm not worried about whether or not I myself will or will not drink. I'm only worried about not finding other non-drinking people.</p>
<p>You really dont have to look too hard to find non-drinking friends....there are so many people that it would be impossible to not find all kinds of different people from all walks of life....</p>
<p>UT is known as a "party" school..... but if your shy it doesnt really matter what college you go to....it will be hard to meet people...</p>
<p>Plus, if you are so self-assured about your decision not to drink you really shouldn't have a problem hanging out with people who DO drink. Trust me, 50,000 students aren't all getting wasted every Saturday night.</p>
<p>All right, thank you everyone for your responses. Maybe I'm just overreacting to the "party school" reputation.</p>
<p>I go to UT and I rarely drink. It's not hard. I hang out with people who do drink and it's a non-issue.</p>