<p>I want to have fun in college, but my idea of fun is not getting drunk and acting like an idiot at huge frat parties. So what types of parties are there in college besides frat parties? What goes on at these parties?</p>
<p>There are many oportunities to get drunk and act like an idiot outside of Greek life. </p>
<ol>
<li>Rent a foam machine and have a foam party</li>
<li>Grease a pig and tie a balloon to its back, whoever can pop the balloon is king for the night</li>
<li>Strip poker</li>
<li>hot tub parties - you can rent hot tubs in most college town, if not you can build them out of a pond pump, a hot water heater, and horse troughs</li>
<li>headonism - underwear party dimly lit</li>
<li>paint party - always a favorite/ you can use tide detergent to cut costs also… and no one is alergic to it.</li>
</ol>
<p>I don’t want to get drunk either…</p>
<p>maybe 1 or 2 beers. maybe. That’s it.</p>
<p>Then I wouldn’t really call what you would enjoy “parties.” I mean, you can call anything where you’re socializing a “party,” but I would call that more a get-together or just hanging out. </p>
<p>Just find some friends who aren’t really into drinking and you can chill with them. There are few/no big parties (in the stereotypical sense of the word) that aren’t about getting drunk. Maybe like club functions or something. I don’t really know. There are lots of parties that don’t have the “frat” atmosphere, house parties and such are often like that, but people will usually be getting drunk.</p>
<p>It’s okay to not like parties. It’s just that almost all of them (in college) are about getting drunk. You’re free to not drink and you can have fun and hang out with friends, but there probably won’t be huge gatherings of people who aren’t drinking. Unless your school has almost no drinking whatsoever.</p>
<p>Well that’s okay. I don’t like huge gatherings anyway. I’m just concerned and worried that I will hardly find anyone else who doesn’t drink. What % of college kids drink and party, and what % don’t, would you say?</p>
<p>The one or two beer parties are not really my scene. I can assure you that every school I know of has hundreds of different GDI house parties going on every night of the week. Some of these though are more sketchy than others and I would be leery about attending ones in bad parts of town. </p>
<p>Get used to it most geeds smoke pot and these parties are often the target of cops, make sure you take at least a few friends with you the first couple of times visiting a new place, you never know what kind of people are there.</p>
<p>BTW: You mentioned that you did not like big fraternity parties so maybe a smaller or religious fraternal organization is for you. Do not worry about many people attending lots of fraternity parties, usually only members and hot single people of the opposite sex are invited. Because of these restrictions, and the large amount of GDI’s there will never be a night where there are only Greek parties.</p>
<p>BTW: No matter what you do not have to drink just because everyone else is.</p>
<p>It’s impossible to nail down a percentage. I don’t even know the numbers for my own school, although it’s definitely a majority. But of course it depends on your own social circle.</p>
<p>You’ll find people who don’t drink, don’t worry. Every school has people who don’t. Join clubs, get involved in dorm activities (those are usually sober) and you’ll find your niche.</p>
<p>BowTieFratty, I don’t think a frat would be a good choice for the OP…also I find it odd that you think that “all geeds smoke pot.” While I am in fact a “GDI” who does smoke pot (though I was once in a sorority…I dropped it this year) I think I am probably in the minority. From the people I have met, Greek and non-Greek, I would actually say that I have found more Greeks to smoke pot. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Everyone should try a frat party. Try first and then make up your mind as to whether you enjoy it or not. Some people are too afraid of experiences.</p>
<p>djamieson: I might go to one but I’m not gonna get drunk, and frat parties seem like they’d be pretty damn boring if you’re sober.</p>
<p>People underrate life experiences. If it’s boring, you will know first hand that it is, rather than think that it would be boring because it ‘seems’ that way.</p>
<p>‘Try before you buy’, a good policy not only at Target but in life.</p>
<p>House parties galore, we threw one last Friday and it was pretty fun.</p>
<p>There are House Parties, Frat Parties, Foam Parties and Pajama Parties as far as I know. Being in college MOST of them will mainly be about getting drunk, while a few will be held at a club so there’s a lot of dancing too. I just talked to my friend about it the other day, partying and clubbing isn’t for everyone. You don’t have to drink, but the only way you’ll really have a party where drinking isn’t some huge issue is if you throw a get together witha few people and have just a few drinks for each person. (Did something like that this past summer)</p>
<p>Dude i’m tellin ya, just have one in your dorm with a handful of people, its so much better. I guess I’m lucky cuz i’ve always had good party-capable dorms and RA’s that didnt care. If this is the case for you do it, its more fun than frats. Frat parties suck.</p>
<p>Three days after everyone moved into my dorm was my RA’s birthday, so we secretly baked cake and threw a surprise birthday party with such intoxicating things as Pepsi and milk. We have unofficial hall parties, dinners, and outings whenever we feel like it, which is very often. Coming up, next week I think, we’re going to have a milkshake party, and later we’re going to have a picnic in the school’s park, and a “sleepover” in the common room of our hall.<br>
We’re kind of proud of the fact that we don’t go to frat parties and such, and we proudly raise our plastic cups of orange juice in defiance.</p>
<p>Do random stuff with your hall. Bake a cake. Invade the dining commons together. You don’t need to go to “official” parties. Just do your own.</p>
<p>One comment: not all colleges are the same in terms of what the social, party, drinking, and drug scenes are like. Of course, the more drinking there is at any particular college, the more the students who go there will tell you that all colleges are the same.</p>
<p>@Rio: And is the main point of house parties to get drunk?</p>
<p>^Almost always, though I’m sure it varies by school. I mean, the main point is theoretically meeting people/socializing but alcohol’s usually a pretty central part of the whole thing. </p>
<p>Odds are, for most schools, if you are invited to a “house party,” most people are going to be getting drunk.</p>
<p>Why though? I really don’t understand the point of getting drunk. Why would you want to lower your inhibitons and cloud your judgement? Sure, it’s “fun”, but so is just having one or two beers (Or so I’ve heard; I don’t really even want to do that due to a family history of alcoholism), and at least then you still have your judgement and inhibitons.</p>
<p>I’ll also say that whether or not you can have a party in your dorm depends completely on the type of dorm and how it’s run.</p>
<p>^Not sure what to tell you. Some people do it just because, some cause of peer pressure, some to forget, some because they think it’s the only way to have fun, etc. There are millions of people and there’s a different reason for each and every one of them.</p>
<p>Everyone finds different things fun. I cannot understand why someone would ever, for example, like fishing. Or stamp collecting. But I recognize these as valid forms of entertainment.</p>
<p>I enjoy drinking. I think it’s fun. I get more social, I just feel happy. I think if you don’t try it (and you’re not open to it), you won’t get it. But I like being intoxicated on all kinds of things, it’s just how I am. You might not get it. But I might not get why you like what you like. I think it’s a hard thing to explain.</p>