Descriptive Essay About I Love College

Drinking on college campuses has become a huge problem. For example, in the 10th century only old people used to drink, but now students drink more than their parents. Students see their parents drinking, so they may think that drinking has no effect on health that anyone can drink so why can’t the students drink? Therefore, college students have been drinking alcohol since the 14th century. Barrett Seaman’s article “How Bingeing Became the New College Sport,” appearing in TIME magazine on August 29, 2005, explains how binge drinking is affecting college students. It also suggests that lowering the drinking age might help solve the problem of binge drinking. This article has much information on how and where students get drunk.

I am guessing almost everyone reading this have went to a party and had a really good time based off the fact that you drank a lot and didn’t have control over what you did. I personally have done this a few times. I went to this new year’s

As a high school senior, I spent all year searching for a compatible college that fits my requirements. I wanted a college that is affordable, so when I graduate I am not stuck with a massive debt. I wanted a campus that is has friendly people and feels like home. Finally, the college must provide me with the right skills to start my career. With those three standards in mind, I narrowed my choices to one perfect college.

“From the moment freshmen set foot on campus, they are steeped in a culture that encourages them to drink, and drink heavily. At many schools, social life is still synonymous with alcohol-lubricated gatherings” (Cohen). Binge drinking is a huge aspect of the culture of college life; many college students binge drink to become socially accepted in a particular group. Binge drinking is not only

In the article, “What Is College For? (Part 2)” written by Gary Gutting we see a description of his ideal vision to improve education and the intellectual culture of our citizens. Mr. Gutting emphasizes that preparing students for employment should be the job of the elementary, middle and high school rather than college. He argues that higher education is basically unnecessary for the practice of many professions.

College students have no parents to tell them that they cannot go to a party because there is going to be alcohol there. They have to take it upon themselves to make the decision whether they should go or not. They do not have mom and dad making decisions for them anymore. Environmental and peer pressure combined gets students to try the temptations of alcohol. There is not a weekend that goes by that that alcohol is not available to students.

Many students said their goodbyes to family and friends as the summer came to an end. Amongst the planning, packing and crying, students like myself couldn’t help but picture their new beginning as it slowly approached. Much of what ran through my mind, personally, was the alcohol and party scenes I will be encountering. These thoughts undoubtedly ran through the minds of my parents, and the families of many young adults also approaching this stage of life. Husson University recognized that thoughts about alcohol can be unsettling for both the parents and students. So, with the intention of addressing this very common, controversial subject, “Shot of Reality” was presented in the Gracie Theater to educate incoming freshmen on alcohol consumption,

When asked about drinking on his college campus one student commented, ‘it's part of the American college culture. I don't know of any college where a large part of the student body isn't drinking on the weekends' (Shinew, 2005)".

High school is over and it is your first time away form home, what are you going to do? The typical college student wants to party! Of the people that were surveyed over half believed that the legal drinking age should be lowered. [O’Kane 1] The legal age to drink in the United States is now 21 years old; college freshman, sophomores, and some juniors are not of the legal age to drink. This causes a problem on many campuses; several students are experiencing their first time away from parental care in a setting sinonomus with drinking and clubbing. Some feel pressure from family and friends to receive excellent grades while attending school, sometimes the pressure is too much and going out and

The consumption of alcohol as a habitual behavior has long been associated with the American collegiate experience, despite the many known negative consequences a student who partakes in drinking can encounter. Because of the danger drunken students pose to a college’s reputation and the safety of its surrounding areas, much research has been done concerning the collegiate party and drinking scenes. This research mostly studied the demographics of the student body, so strategies developed to curtail the illegal or overconsumption of alcohol could be targeted towards the specific groups that demonstrated the highest likelihood of participating in these acts. When the strategies were implemented, however, there was little decline in the number of college students who chose to party and drink (Vander Ven 2011). This failure did not point toward a flaw in the research data, but instead a lack of research into the benefits a collegiate drinker receives that are rewarding to the point he or she cannot resist. This is the topic of Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard by Thomas Vander Ven.

One thing that the article discussed was conflicting views; such as the debate in campus magazines about if alcohol was indeed central to campus culture. Those who thought it was cited ideas such as the United States’ drinking culture, those who disagreed though there was more to campus life. College identity was the next topic; with the idea of the desirability vs the shame of being a party school. There was also the idea that students need to “’work hard and party hard’” (Tan 129).

These were not like normal family graduation parties, where they serve dinner, and guests hang out. These parties consist of parents buying the kids alcohol, housing seventy or more kids for the night, and catering the whole place with food. For about a month, I probably went to at least four graduation parties a week. It was insane. I legitimately lived out of my car during this time because there was always a new house I had to go to for the night. It was no longer a family meal celebrating one’s success through high school, it became a rage, just like it was out of a movie. Once again, it was all about showing off your house and showing that you can in fact feed seventy inebriated kids, just because why not. It is all about wealth and material objects, that is what allows you to succeed in Hunterdon

Moving away from home has been one of the biggest challenges that I have had to face so far in the eighteen years of my life. Moving from my home town to the collge dorm was a difficult transition that was necessary for growing up both mentally and physically as an individual. The little more than five hundred miles that separates me from my friends and family has allowed me to become the person I am today, and the distance allows me to grow and become more familiar with things that are a whole new experience for me. One of the many new things that I have had to deal with was making new friends in my environment.

This week’s discussion led me to think about my high school years. It was probably the summer after my sophomore year in high school when about five of my friends and I decided to get a group together. I guess it was the best thing we could think of doing at the time. We called the group “TTK” which stood for Tipsy Tuesday Krew. Being kids we were doing things we had no business doing. We had an older friend who was of age to buy alcohol for us since we were not old enough. Every Tuesday of the summer we found a location and got together as a group to get “tipsy.” I am not an alcohol drinker, I never have been. Therefore I definitely was not one in high school. When the group got together, I did not really drink with them. I would take tiny

Who wants to spend their Saturday night at a vomit-stained high school party? In everyone else's mind, if you don’t party, you’re labeled as uncool or antisocial just because you’d rather sit at home drinking coffee, and catching up on the latest episode of Scream Queens. In a room filled with intoxicated people grinding on each other like misguided seals, you’d sit in the corner. Spilled drinks in a room full of people who could care less about you, only focusing on themselves. You can find real interests and hobbies instead of waking up with a hangover every Sunday morning.