| Okay im on my 4th year of college, and your freshman year is THE year to live it up.
However, too many students get caught up in the partying. There were 4,000 freshman at my university, and I heard that 1/3 of them didnt come back for sophomore year. Why? no parents, no control, too much partying. All I cared about was smoking and drinking really. I made BEST friends with 2 of the guys on my floor, and ended up switching into one of their rooms 2nd semester. Needless to say, we drank a lot of light beer, buy a 30 pack on thursday night, drink it with a couple other people. Buy another friday, drink it. Etc.
Those two guys didnt come back. I got a 1.8 first semester, and a 2.2 the second semester (you must have a 2.0+ to come back). But I fixed it by focusing MUCh harder on my studies, been getting 3.0+ past 4 semesters. partying isnt everything.
THAT BEING SAID, have fun. Learn to use your dorm as a social tool. I wasnt in a fraternity because this public Uni costs $16k a year, and room/board expenses are another $5ka year or so. I wish I had joined one, even though you are buying your friends, you have access to the parties with ALL of the hot girls and high status people. Lots of rich stuck up people, but its a great social scene.
My 2 best friends and I made lots of new friends freshman year. I'd say we had about 4 girls that we always hung out with that lives on the floor above us. Then a bunch of various random people we would meet while smoking cigs at the bottom. Keep in mind each dorm building had over 1,000 students. We'd just make small talk, and see them at least every few days. Ask them what they are doing over the weekend, invite them to your dorm. Ours were 2 people per room, and we had suitemates so we shared a bathroom with 2 other dudes. Not too bad, but the dorms were tiny as ****.
Just make sure you try as hard as you can to get A's and B's, and party on the weekends when you're done with what you have to get done school-wise
p.s. bottles of alcohol is way less sketchy than cracking open tons of beers and having to throw them down the trash chute. Many sketchy times. _________________ "going to workout and shit." -stunt101 (PUA chat)
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