The exaggerated fantasy of college of constant parties and promiscuity

Sheep Lover · 11-05-2015 12:10AM

Adamantium wrote: »

It's a monday night OP, get off the computer, unlock the door and join the party outside your door.

If your posting from Galway, this will almost certainly be the case

College must of been good to you, because today's Sunday, not Monday...

thelad95 · 11-05-2015 12:12AM

The best thing about college is definitely gaff/house parties. Night clubs are fun in 1st year but you get bored of them pretty quickly. They're overpriced, bouncers and bar staff are often ****, overcrowded and it's very difficult to hear anyone.

House parties are cheaper by a mile, you can do any drugs or whatever without having to worry about somebody spotting you and it's way easier to talk to and get to know people.

JonEBGud · 11-05-2015 12:15AM

The "Grand Tour" might change your mind.

ZeroThreat · 11-05-2015 12:21AM

jonnypacket wrote: »

I must be. Irish college girls are very cold and stand-offish (in my experience). YMMV.

Don't know about that tbh, but most of the people that seem to attend lectures for the professional accountancy qualifications could be described as the above. Most of the beancounters seem to be pretty stuckup with the charisma on a used snot rag..

suicide_circus · 11-05-2015 12:22AM

I had more partying after university than during!

Adamantium · 11-05-2015 12:23AM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

I don't believe for one second that "all" the girls are "frigid".

Exactly, you'd have to be blind and dumb to think this.

efb · 11-05-2015 12:25AM

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?

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Schwiiing · 11-05-2015 12:34AM

I had no interest in parties or drinking in college. Sadly I had chosen LIT, the biggest clown college in Ireland to study in.

40 people started my course, 8 graduated 2 years later.

It was so bad that sometimes the lecturers would walk past the door looking through the glass panel, see about 5 students, and keep walking.

I lost countless hours of lectures simply because of all the wasters in the class more interested in drugs and booze.

strobe · 11-05-2015 12:34AM

jonnypacket wrote: »

Elliot Rodger would disagree. He spent his nights in his Santa Barbara City College dorm room posting on internet forums after repeated failures to integrate into the campus culture. Go figure.

There's probably a happy medium between Van Wilder and Elliot Rodger? This is where the college experience of most people lie, I'm sure. The odd weekend you head out party like it's going out of fashion, drop a couple of e, hook up with the quiet goth girl that turns out to be a freak in bed, then the next weekend you sit in broke and post on internet forums or whatever. Bit of both like?

Man, if your sitting in posting on internet forums failing to integrate into campus culture or whatever this weekend... give the going out and dropping e and pulling the quiet goth girl a bash next weekend. Mix it up a bit. No one's going to call over and do it for you. Just go out and do it.

mynamejeff · 11-05-2015 12:46AM

Schwiiing wrote: »

I had no interest in parties or drinking in college. Sadly I had chosen LIT, the biggest clown college in Ireland to study in.

40 people started my course, 8 graduated 2 years later.

It was so bad that sometimes the lecturers would walk past the door looking through the glass panel, see about 5 students, and keep walking.

I lost countless hours of lectures simply because of all the wasters in the class more interested in drugs and booze.

id say your great craic altogether,
was it worth it all , do you have a high payed socially and morally important job that fulfills you

Hans Bricks · 11-05-2015 12:49AM

I went on all the big nights out, RAG week, Mystery bus tour etc. in first year, but thats about it really. Kind of fizzles out after first year I found here in Dublin anyway. From what I hear about the likes of Galway and rural Ireland, the whole wild experience in college is taken is a lot more seriously. Probably due to the number of students living away from home for most of the week / semester.

Even the regular party crowd, external ent officers etc. who went to every big event / night out in my college only seemed to go out on occasion and less so as they progressed through their course.

Phil Mitchell · 11-05-2015 01:16AM

endacl wrote: »

Accountancy?

Yes :pac:

errlloyd · 11-05-2015 01:40AM

Here like American college life is completely different. They all rack up the eyeballs with debt and so almost all of them live on campus, and many of them miles from their families. It makes the whole thing way more liberated.

They end up leaving college owing the bank like 100,000 dollars - but on average they pay about 20-25% less tax than us so they can handle that debt more easily than we can.

Tigger · 11-05-2015 01:52AM

Adamantium wrote: »

It's a monday night OP, get off the computer, unlock the door and join the party outside your door.

If your posting from Galway, this will almost certainly be the case

monday morning ?

silverfeather · 11-05-2015 01:53AM

The guy who was the biggest college party animals I knew just became a Dad! :-D

r93kaey5p2izun · 11-05-2015 01:57AM

I went to lots of parties and nights out all through college. I think it depends a lot on what and where you study. We had regular course nights out and several traditional official faculty events. Add that to the usual house parties and student nights in clubs (still a thing 15 years ago anyway) and it amounted to a pretty healthy social life.

I didn't join any clubs or societies but that would be another source of social events.

Life is never really like the movies ( I can't believe anyone thinks it is!?) but it sounds like you're missing out OP.

Arsemageddon · 11-05-2015 02:09AM

jonnypacket wrote: »

Elliot Rodger would disagree. He spent his nights in his Santa Barbara City College dorm room posting on internet forums after repeated failures to integrate into the campus culture. Go figure.

Elliot Rodger's views on college social life are about as relevant to this thread as Jeffrey Dahmer's contributions to a thread about cooking.

thelad95 · 11-05-2015 02:11AM

I think if you live on campus or in a student house it can to an extent be like the movies but if you live in digs or commute to college, it can be a very very different experience indeed.

I'm just finishing first year and there have been some weeks and nights like the movies but more often than not, in the evening you'll just sit at home in your tracksuit pants watching Netflix or doing coursework. It's not party central 24/7.

silverfeather · 11-05-2015 02:13AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Elliot Rodger's views on college social life are about as relevant to this thread as Jeffrey Dahmer's contributions to a thread about cooking.

There is a difference between people who are not as out going because they are shy and those who are not out going because they actually have no real heartfelt caring about people.

silverfeather · 11-05-2015 02:14AM

errlloyd wrote: »

Here like American college life is completely different. They all rack up the eyeballs with debt and so almost all of them live on campus, and many of them miles from their families. It makes the whole thing way more liberated.

They end up leaving college owing the bank like 100,000 dollars - but on average they pay about 20-25% less tax than us so they can handle that debt more easily than we can.

Debt does NOT make you more liberated!

hatrickpatrick · 11-05-2015 02:18AM

Party central 24/7 kinda comes in waves. Maybe this is just me, but the biggest lie in the movies is that your average person is ever going to have the energy to literally party for two weeks straight without one or two nights off.

It can physically be done, but my experience is that it genuinely stops being fun after 3-4 days and you long for your own bed, a decent movie, and a bag of chips. You can keep partying, but deep down you don't actually want to.

That downtime only has to last one night or even a couple of hours, but personally I find myself utterly losing my mind if I don't stop sessioning at least once a week or so.

For me, I tend to need about a week of decent sleep for every three weeks of constant sessioning, or I'm more likely to get a cold / the flu / pimples / mouth ulcers / other general signs of being run down.

silverfeather · 11-05-2015 02:19AM

I was social in college. Never into partying ....or generally those type of people. If it's your interest then fair play to you I think everyone is diff.

thelad95 · 11-05-2015 02:20AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Party central 24/7 kinda comes in waves. Maybe this is just me, but the biggest lie in the movies is that your average person is ever going to have the energy to literally party for two weeks straight without one or two nights off.

It can physically be done, but my experience is that it genuinely stops being fun after 3-4 days and you long for your own bed, a decent movie, and a bag of chips. You can keep partying, but deep down you don't actually want to.

That downtime only has to last one night or even a couple of hours, but personally I find myself utterly losing my mind if I don't stop sessioning at least once a week or so.

For me, I tend to need about a week of decent sleep for every three weeks of constant sessioning, or I'm more likely to get a cold / the flu / pimples / mouth ulcers / other general signs of being run down.

I'd agree with this. During Freshers week this year, the last night of the week was pretty dead. I just don't think people had any energy by that stage. A lot of people decided three nights was enough while those who were out were pretty wrecked anyway.

eternal · 11-05-2015 02:46AM

Van Wilder was like 8 years doing the same year. Great craic that would be all the same.

fizzypish · 11-05-2015 08:59AM

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I did an engineering degree so as you can guess i didn't party much either.:(

+1
Add Medical and science to this category (+ any tough courses). I went out and had the crack from time to time. Less and less each progressive year. Even in first year, if you manage to attend class the after a session its next to impossible to comprehend whats happening. If you can then your a better man than me.

On the other hand I had a buddy that pissed away 2 years drinking, partying, riding and taking drugs. Personally, I could only handle it for a couple of days (not a drug guy myself) and his lifestyle looked awful to me. At the end of the week, if you live like that, can you look yourself in the mirror and say "Time well spent"? I know I couldn't.

Wacker The Attacker · 11-05-2015 09:07AM

I was crushing vadge in college

The Corinthian · 11-05-2015 09:08AM

jonnypacket wrote: »

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.

That's pretty much how my time in university was, although drugs held limited interest for me. You're definitely doing something wrong.

And there's no such thing as an 'easy' girl. You make it sound like sex is something they don't like. Very insulting.

Saipanne · 11-05-2015 09:28AM

I had plenty of sex at uni. It helped that I started aged 24. Much more confident than my younger peers and the young ladies preferred the more mature man.

anncoates · 11-05-2015 09:31AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I was crushing vadge in college

Hopefully you've lost weight since graduation.

11-05-2015 09:55AM

They also don't show you those who crash and burn because of drugs and alcohol, who become violent when drunk, who steal your food, who are happy to live in filth and are lazy( know someone who went home for a week and came back to flies hatching in the bin ) nor do they show those who make fools of themselves over sex, fail their exams twice, and so on, because none of the above wouldn't make a cash cow of a movie

The exaggerated fantasy of college of constant parties and promiscuity

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