Bucknell Through a Current Student's Eyes

purplegirl
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:08:04 +0000

I am sorry too that you are having a hard time. As a parent of a junior at Bucknell (girl) who doesn’t drink she found plenty to do besides drinking/frat parties. Maybe it’s different for the girls so I don’t know if it helps or not but if you are a freshman, she’s noticed that the drinking becomes less attractive to kids as time goes on and as she entered spring of her soph year some kids turned around. She attends some frat parties because of her soriority mixers but she stays about 10 mins and I would agree that there is alot of alcohol related frat events. She’s never seen drugs. For her social life, she enjoys going out with her friends, none drink/party, to the events on campus (concerts, comedians, etc), the movies or just hanging out in their rooms playing games. She will go on Calvin&Hobbs sponsered events and some of her friends live in Choice (Kress) dorm. I think that no matter where you go to college there will be some level of an alcohol dominated social life but I think if you look hard enough you will find many like-minded kids, they are just harder to find at first. The party/drinking stuff is discouraging but I am glad you don’t participate in the alcohol scene. Try not to go home too much because then it will be harder for you to find your social network. Look for other clubs/sports/etc to join and maybe that will help. If you stay at Bucknell, consider living in Kress next year, the kids are not as “weird” as you think!