Kids Who Booze It Up Enjoy College More: Obvious or Interesting?

What are the statistics for them graduating, though? Sure you enjoy life now, but those who get a useful degree and good job are enjoying life a lot more later ;)

I'm not sure this is true, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were.

True, I guess. I don't drink, but college wasn't crazy fun for me. I didn't socialise with people or go out, but I did have fun with my old friends and I guess I enjoyed learning, too. The other people in my class would just drink all the time and get bad grades a lot of the time, so I'm glad I didn't go for that type of lifestyle.

Yes, but i had friends in College who did not drink and they enjoyed it.

Niether!

Really? That's like saying does weed make reading better

What is cause and effect? Maybe they drink because they have more fun. Maybe they drink, because they are together with a lot of other people, which can very well be associated with having more fun.

Idiots. Way to kill your brain cells -.-

Makes sense, but how happy are they after college?

Sure. Because those that don't find it fun to do that work hard and really just want to get through college. Enjoy the time, but it is a step on the path. For many of the partiers it is the time of their life and they are living it up. College was not the time of my life, I enjoyed it as I enjoy my life now, but it wasn't my "best years". I don't want it to be either...I want all my years to be good or as good as I can make them.

alcohol doesn't make anything more enjoyable.

I enjoyed college more than the kids that just took booze because I found their are many more enjoyable things to do also

I felt it was a waste of my time. I quit drinking completely in my 20s. Then my draft number came up while I was in college. So I just joined the Marines in 1967

It's not whether or not they enjoy college, it's whether or not they actually better themselves. You might have fun, but that's not the purpose of college. The purpose is learn what inspires you and better yourself. Drinking is not going to do that.

what the hell are they learning there?

As parents who saved for the future so their daughter and son could go to college...daughter has huge degree never really had a good job, unemployed now and loves her un-employment check, votes for democrats and likes libertarians....Our son chose not to go to college, slowly was given most of his college money bought a house, has a good job has Conservative values, married a Democrat and is now getting a divorce! My husband and I if we could turn back time we would make our daughter stay at our community college and not go to Boulder Co party town unless she wanted to go in debt and party hearty on her dime! She is a very smart girl and did well but....has no work ethics and is VERY Indoctrinated as to how the Real World Clicks! What to do...I would change a bunch!

What does partying in college have to do with democrats and republicans? Irrelevant!

No it has a lot to do with everything we do in our lives and WE sent and paid big bucks for our daughter to go to college and she is an indoctrinated fool, Democrat Professors feeding our kids heads full of BS about America, making them hate America and drill into their heads that other countries are crapped on by his or her Gov., and then you throw in the party hardy kid at that college and it's a train wreck waiting to happen and does happen most of the time...I think community College's are the best thing or make them pay for their own way to the big mostly looser, status college's. Our College's have done nothing but cater to the Foreigners and stick it to American kids...I have sat in on several of my daughters classes and I couldn't even understand the professors, his English was terrible and I think that is WRONG so everything about College in general a big partying joke anymore...just a place to have fun every day on Dad and Moms $....Pathetic!!!!!!!!

You must have a giant chip on your shoulder. Get over yourself, not all college graduates are democrats, and not all democrats are are full of BS.

Yes I have a chip on my shoulder and I'm ticked off! Tough love is hard to do but I am learning it fast! Most Democrats only care about themselves, I looked at your profile....you like all of the fun websites, cooking etc. Well at this point in our History I think really being informed about our Gov. Is zoo very important and that is what I do and the information I find out is very bad for America unless we all get informed and get off our what can the Gov. Do for me attitude! America is an awesome country...why do you think so many Thugs want it? We will be destroyed and I am doing my part to stop this very bad Progressive thuggery movement and yes our schools have a lot to do with the wrongs in my country, our country! God Bless America

And most remain in college mentally...

its like saying do kids who get candy/treats at school every day enjoy school more?

I absolutely hate booze but it makes sense that they'd have more fun lol

Yea its fun but remember dont get distracted

Not for me. But I'm only a sophomore so what do I know? Last year was one of the best years of my life. Didn't involve booze. Didn't involve drugs. Just me enjoying my freedom the legal and the smart way.

Congratulations, you are among the very few, keep up the good work!

My daughter attends a dry college. To my knowledge she didn't drink at all last year, except at home.

Haha, your daughter is a liar.

Nope, she didn't she was in the nerd hall with an equally nerdy roommate. It did go on, she told me a lot of stories, but it was happening in other dorms, not hers. She was too busy making the Dean's list her first year to be boozing.

Those other kids will be working for your daughter someday...

All right, why the hell do you have to tack "fat" on there. There are plenty of intelligent fat people who do not booze it up. Leave people's physiques out of it. I get really, really tired of people bashing those who have a certain type of physique just because they need a scapegoat.

I probably would have done better in college if I'd studied more and partied less. That being said, I had untreated bipolar disorder and was looking for something to ease the pain and free floating anxiety that I constantly felt. I was also raped by an acquaintance while I was in college, so I was looking for something to ease the pain and terror I felt after that incident. Drug/alcohol use and mental illness often go hand in hand. It isn't always a red flag, but it is more often than people think.

My son, on the other hand, after his first semester of college, deliberately chose schools that weren't "party" schools because he doesn't want partying to get in the way of learning. I think that he will do much better in school than I did (Or than most of the partiers do) because he is there to learn, not to booze it up.

Drunk in collage is as Merica as apple pie and bombing third world nations for resources.

Depends on your goals! When the going gets tough some studying is going to have to happen. play is good and necessary but it is not a total life.

Considering that college is just an extension of the Eco-socialist indoctrination which began in primary school, it is probably better if young people spend their college years drunk instead of absorbing all the tripe their "liberal" professors spew. Party on, Wayne!

Spending most of their time drinking/drunk, do they learn anything?
Can they remember enough to know if they had a good time?

I remember one time I was doing beer bongs, and then I walked away from the place. I ended up at the apartment of these people I didn't even know and smoked a bunch of weed. They were nice people and called me a taxi. I ended up at the student health center because my stomach hurt. I left after about an hour, met some other people I didn't know, and went to another party at 5 in the morning. It was crazy! I don't regret it, I suppose. It was what was. But I'm not proud of it either. It was pretty stupid.

Glad you got out safely.

sure, i was always high in my college days n now i don't even remember the names of majority of my batch fellows.