Facebook and College Admissions

elaslawek
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:10:10 +0000

I wouldn’t say smoking marijuana qualify as crossing the line, but putting pictures up of yourself smoking marijuana does. The difference between marijuana and alcohol is that at a certain age. the alcohol becomes legal. The marijuana only becomes legal when its medical (although soon enough in California the bill may pass). I view alcohol as something which needs maturity to be used, as is the reason why there are laws which give ages to do it at. No matter your age, you cannot legally smoke marijuana without medical purposes.
As for your last statement, anything can be misinterpreted, even the smallest of acts. I wouldn’t worry about an inside joke being misunderstood by the admissions committee unless it has serious racial slurs or threats or something of that sort.