<p>“UCSC doesn’t have a lot of wild parties, but a number of people smoke weed there.”</p>
<p>Actually, you can find a lot of “wild parties” at basically any college you go to. The big difference here is that the SC campus is kinda separated from the actual town, so most people don’t really see or hear about most of the parties going on. Sometimes people think the parties are just confined to places on Bay St and the west side of Santa Cruz, but there’s actually a TON going on further from campus because less freshman crash those and those don’t get shut down as fast. Also, I’ve actually been to crazier parties at UCSC (compared to places like Cal, CSULA, UCLA, UCD) and those parties never included a huge weed sesh or anything, just mostly massive amounts of drinking haha.</p>