<p>In which colleges and universities is drinking NOT the main social event?
Are there things to do on the weekends besides drink?
If so, what are the alternatives to drinking and partying?</p>
<p>bonus question: isn't it amazing how college brochures never acknowledge the drinking scene?</p>
<p>I'll start the ball rolling:
Lake Forest College (near Chicago) says that students can go to Chicago pretty often, during the weekends. Sounds like a good alternative. Though this is off the official college website, so I don't know how much drinking really does go on there.</p>
<p>I haven’t really heard of any schools where drinking isn’t an issue. Kids like to party and college is the first time many of us have a chance to…but just because most kids do it doesn’t mean that all do. I have a friend who goes to a big party school, but he isn’t involved in any of it. It up to the individual person whether or not they choose to associate with the drinking and/or drug scene</p>
<p>I assume that Levirn helped come up with some of the wording and covered part of the cost of posting the thread.</p>
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<p>Technically, in the U.S., it’s illegal to buy beer for or sell beer to people who are under the age of 21. Bragging about all the underage kids drinking might put off some parents, who despite the fact that they were in this same situation not that long ago are still pretty conservative about the whole “my 18 year old DD might get wasted every weekend for the next four years” thing.</p>
<p>There is a non-drinking culture on EVERY campus and there is a drinking culture on EVERY campus.</p>
<p>I go to one of the biggest party colleges in the country, I do not drink. I have a good social life. My roommate drinks all the time. She has a good social life. Different strokes for different folks.</p>
<p>We need colleges that match our personalities to the T. If I like to drink, I need to go to a college where everybody is smashed all the time and you can actually hear people’s livers screaming in agony as you walk by. If I don’t like to drink, I can only go to Carrie Nation U where the Volstead Act is like the Bible and beer bottles are regarded with the same blind, unreasoning terror as a dirty bomb in a Sunday school.</p>
<p>haha i agree with reillytheman! everyone is funny at night…and more rude comments come out during the day. some people on this website are absolutely horrible.</p>
<p>You probably don’t even know why you’re against drinking… or anything about it judging by the post. You won’t find ONE campus where every single person drinks. You won’t find ONE campus where everyone abstains from drinking.</p>
<p>The religious schools and the service academies probably have close to zero drinking.</p>
<p>I think that the closer your school is to a big city (and the more accessible), the easier it’ll be to find things to do that don’t revolve around drinking. If your school is in the middle of the cornfields then yeah there’s not much to do besides either drink or lie in the fields staring at the stars with your loved one next to you. If you go to school near a big city then there’s a lot more stuff to do.</p>
<p>@Romani maybe at the service academies, but at the very religious schools? I don’t think you go to those if you AREN’T very religious, and I know quite a few religious Christians who don’t believe in drinking outside of church.</p>