how prevalent are drugs/alcohol?

Dauntless9
Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:12:45 +0000

It’s a college campus. People drink. In certain houses it tends to be a much larger part of the culture than others. During my junior and senior years, my group of friends and I probably drank at least once every other weekend, usually a even split between on campus and at a friend’s off campus apartment. A few groups of people drank more often than us, but I would say most people drank much less. We also knew how to make sure it didn’t interfere with our studies (we all graduated in 4 years with honors).

And if drinking is absolutely not your thing, that’s fine. Plenty of people don’t drink at Tech. On any given weekend you’re more likely to run into a group of people playing DotA, Settlers of Catan, or doing homework than playing a drinking game. Some of my best friends still don’t drink, and it never prevented them from hanging out with us or having fun at an interhouse party.

Usage of “tobacco products” and other drugs is much more rare to my experience.

Is there some specific concern you or your son has? I’ve never really considered alcohol usage on campus as something to be worried about at Tech.