Thoughts on "party schools"

BlahDeBlah
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:40:19 +0000

Plus, drunken idiots do provide hours of amusement to sober folk !



I agree. More specifically, about 10 hours of amusement: after that it gets old and you start to really wish that there was something to do in the evenings that didn’t involve everyone in the room but you being drunk. My school’s not really a party school and at this point my peers are more likely to hang out at a local bar/tavern type place for a few hours than go to a house party, but there has still always been an underlying element of ‘having fun means getting drunk’. I haven’t really been pressured to drink that much or excluded from things because of it, and people will say they don’t care, but that doesn’t mean I don’t end up feeling severely left out/out of place because of it. Just because a non-drinker can tag along with your friends while they get drunk and not have them harass you for not drinking doesn’t mean that they actually want to spend every weekend doing that.

I kind of figured that the ‘party school’ label would be self-perpetuating. The people that see college as an opportunity to get drunk as much as possible will seek out the supposed party schools, and turn it into a party school if it really wasn’t one to begin with. I don’t think there’s any such thing as the opposite of a party school, except perhaps for commuter schools where no one sticks around after class hours anyway.