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Living the cliche
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The thread below about freshers events got me thinking about this, I am sure out of thousands of students going to any given university I am not alone here.... But for people who are already there, what percentage of people would you say are cliched 'get pissed badly and often' type people? Thing is I am not really like that at all, and at the risk of sounding like an old man at the age of 19 (!) I usually tend to prefer doing more constructive things with my time. I am hoping there will be plenty of like-minded people there who are not so into the drinking culture and all that, I'm sure there will be, but as the time comes I'm getting a bit worried I'll have two options- either join in with everyone else or be a loner! Probably just me being paranoid... I'm more into sport, music, talking (a dying art!) , general socialising and hanging out with mates, rather than getting battered and/or acting like a tit.
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i'd say 95%, depending on which course you do. of the remaining 5%, 4% still get pissed, they just can't afford to do it badly or often.
of all the people i have met in my uni life, only one other didn't drink, and that was for medical reasons.
when i tell people i'm teetotal and also a student, people look at me like this :eek2: then they try to spike my drink, which is nice of them.
I'm a student, yes, sometimes I go out, but not all the time, and I don't see any joy in getting so drunk I can't remember what happened. When I'm paying more than £1000 a year in fees I want to get my moneys worth by actually being in a fit state to attend classes.
I suppose for some people, university is their first taste of freedom. I've done all that stupid drunken stuff and living on my own already.
Some people think I'm odd because I'm not interested in going on bar crawls and a lot of stuff like freshers week is really aimed at getting people drunk. I think that's a crap message to send out to people.
Hopefully I'll meet some people who are more rounded individuals, out of 6000 or so of the new intake, there is bound to be. I hope so anyway!
I do think it's true that a lot of unis seem to organise events that seem to consist largely of drinking. At my university all sports nights and comedy nights seem take place in the bars and there are only a few events such as film nights or gaming lans where there is no drinking at all.
Whatever type of person you are there will be someone similar to you though, and if you don't drink you will still have a great time so don't worry too much about it.
Out of the fifteen people in my block this year, six of them would go out and get really really drunk. But I think if they didn't go out together but instead with people who didn't drink so much, then they wouldn't get too drunk.
I don't drink at all (completely out of choice) and some people apologise to me as if it's ruining my life...! I have been told by third years however that I'm 'lucky' because I don't spend much when I go out and I don't have to drink to have a good time. I feel a little insulted by the use of 'lucky' - it's my choice not to drink and it's hard sometimes when a lot of people expect you to - but it's nice that some people realise that being teetotal can be a good thing
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then, if you are in a bar/pub/club, their next comment tends to be: so what are you doing here then?
um, enjoying myself with my friends. it's just that i don't have to be intoxicated to enjoy their company, as they are entertaining enough.
Yup! I have only ever come across a couple of people who admitted to being jealous that I can have a laugh without drinking, however I suspect there are a lot more who probably are but have egos which won't let them admit it. Anyway I think it's cool that there are people around who are the same, nice to know...... Dare to be different!
I don't think less of people who drink, but what disgusts me is some people I've heard talking, who were actually proud of having been drunk. Personally I wouldn't want to degrade myself like that.