The exaggerated fantasy of college of constant parties and promiscuity

jonnypacket wrote: »

The reality is quite different in my experience.

You're doing it wrong, brah.

jonnypacket wrote: »

Why is Hollywood pushing this fantasy so hard? You've seen the same scenario in countless movies from American Pie to Van Wilder: your college years will be one big blur of drinking, parties, hook-ups with easy girls and experimenting with drugs. The reality is quite different in my experience. More like counting your pennies at the end of the month to pay the rent for your mold-infested shoebox apartment that you share with an illegal Chinese immigrant. And getting up super early to check if your grant came in before anyone you know sees you. Thoughts?

Key words highlighted there OP. You're not on your own either by any means. There are actually thousands of students like you, and then there are indeed the students who go for the whole party hardy lifestyle.

I was somewhat a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B, came out the other end of it relatively unscathed. Gained employment in a multi-national which was almost a hotbed of sexual impropriety and all manner of debauchery... :eek:

Fond memories of that place actually

Phil Mitchell wrote: »

3 years in college and not one party. Didnt even get the shift

Accountancy?

My college days had plenty of partying and ending up in very odd situations like sleeping in in a hot press during a party in a stranger's house. Ah those where the days...

The one thing though is that in my experience, American college life may well be, at least to some degree, what it is portrayed as in the movies.

I have friends in the US (American born) and been over plenty of times and been to loads of house parties with them and they quite literally are mad affairs, with plenty of drinking, drugs and sex. 20 to 40 people in the house, loads coming and going as the night wears on and plenty of drinking games...

When I was in college it was nightclubs twice a week and hash and Fifa tournaments the rest of the time

Except for the three weeks before exams, Summer and repeats, then it was cursing the fact I spent so much time on the above..,,

I went out a good bit in first year of college, second year I think I went out only two or three times, third year was my final year so I went out a decent bit again. I graduated in 2009 so I tried to get a job but ended up doing feck all for the year, went back to do a Masters in 2010-2011 and I didn't go out at all that year, head down and studied for all of it.

I do remember some of the house party's being a bit eventful. Also the RAG weeks were mental.

College is all what you make it. You can try have a good balance and do ok in college grades and go to some nights out. Or you can be a nerd and never go out, or you can just be a recluse and not a nerd, rather play xbox all the time, or you can be the party mad guy who always drinks and ends up repeating first year three times. I've seen them all. I like to think I was a mix, bit of a computer-film-tv show-book nerd, yet I had plenty of friends and options to go drinking and parties with (always had a place to stay there if I went drinking), and did just enough study to do ok in my course.

College was great, but it certainly isn't like what they make it out to be in American movies.

The country was still going ok when I was in college, and although I drove down due to being only 40 mins away, my parents said they would have paid for me to live there. Never was short of cash for any expenses due to my family, had an odd part time job here and there but never anything permanent so I relied on them a lot. My dad was on good money and my mother worked, the granny lived with us and she would give me money up and down for the college week. Not to forget when I went to college the fees were only €800 a year. I cannot believe how people go to college these days and pay €2,750 per year. I got my degree for less than a years college fees.

Just to add, my family were (and still aren't) rich, but my dad got good money on the buildings, house was paid for etc. So did alright out of it I suppose.

Zymurgist wrote: »

When I was in college it was nightclubs twice a week and hash and Fifa tournaments the rest of the time

Except for the three weeks before exams, Summer and repeats, then it was cursing the fact I spent so much time on the above..,,

Now that many nightclubs have become so outrageously overpriced and over-bounced, house parties have taken over. The nights when we just stay in someone's gaff and have the absolute bants all night until we KO are, in my view, far more fun.