<p>parties =)
I don’t mean to point any fingers, but from some of the orientation week and social life posts, it appears that some people on this board have this clear cut idea of a division between “party-goers” and “everyone else,” and I just want to reaffirm something along the same vein as what ananya said. It’s not like that. Really. I used to kind of think that until I started to go to parties where people drank… and I drank. It wasn’t really out of “peer pressure” to do anything, there’s just nothing to do otherwise. All the games involve drinking, I mean, I guess you could pour yourself a big old glass of cranberry juice (if someone brought liquor) and pretend it was spiked if you really didn’t want to drink, haha.
And you don’t have to get smashed everytime you go to a party! But then again, I’m not really into beer pong, which could peer pressure you to drink yourself sick if you’re bad at it…lol.
I know this is irrelevant to the question, and sorry if it annoys you guys, but I just want to say to the non-partiers (maybe for the bizzilionth time) that they shouldn’t automatically turn against parties, as they are fun socially… (until you see someone do something reallllllllly awkward and the vomiting begins…yeah that often happens). But really. And in college no one really has to drive anyplace, so that removes a lot of potential danger =)</p>
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LOL. Alright, I suppose I’m not really against anything that’s free…</p>
<p>along with shalala - </p>
<p>Yes, you are very right. My best friend (and roommate sophomore year) really doesn’t drink like, at all. She might have one beer in her hand at a party, but that’s just to have something to sip if she feels like it, and ends up with a water any way. We went out almost every other weekend fall semester, sometimes more often, and she continued to really not drink. Minor pressure from a guy dancing with her every now and then, but you really don’t have to drink when you go out. It’s not like the drinkers on campus party and no one else does. </p>
<p>I think you can have fun going to a party if only to observe how ridiculous it can all be, even if you don’t drink. And you can go out with a group and dance without drinking, you don’t have to go to just play beer pong or whatever the game of choice is.</p>
<p>I’ve said this in a previous thread: Drinking is not necessary to enjoy a party. My first semester freshman year, I didn’t drink and my friends all respected that. I still went to the frat parties with them and it was still fun. Seriously, be sober when everyone else is drunk, it’s hilarious. If you aren’t a partier, at least try it. Orientation week was my first real drinking party experience.</p>
<p>Going out and drinking is NOT about drinking. It’s about spending time with friends and enjoying their company. If you are going out drinking and it’s about the drinking, then you’re missing the point. If you choose to drink, it’s only because it perhaps enhanced that experience for you. </p>
<p>–My 2 cents–</p>
<p>I told this to my freshmen group last year when I was an OL and someone said the advice worked. If you find yourself at a C-town party and aren’t sure how to get back home, just go “up”. Take any street that goes in the “up” direction. Worse-case scenario is that you end up in Cayuga Heights (suburb next to Cornell/Ithaca), but that’s only if you really go wrong.</p>
<p>As for finding parties: with my freshmen floor, none of us knew where to go and there were like 20 of us. We just went to C-town and went inside any apartment with an open door and people and it worked out for us.</p>
<p>The only response I have to this is that if you go up too far (going up Dryden past CTP) then you’re going the wrong way. But for the most part going uphill from any street (Cook, Catherine, Eddy, Dryden (til CTP), and College Ave will get you back to campus. The easiest one is just walking uphill on College Avenue until you hit campus.</p>