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Just what every college student needs to read...Pretty interesting though.

burgerbrain 16y ago
Every college student should read this. Maybe if they had read it when I went to school, I would have gotten less harsh looks for showing up to class completely trashed every day...
- jpr 16y ago
  A fitting username you have.
  - burgerbrain 16y ago
    The hilarious part is that I was able to spend 4 years straight intoxicated, but I ended up getting the exact same degree as the rest of them. But yeah, being wasted and doing as well as my peers sure does suggest I'm pretty dumb, doesn't it. People who look down on others for drinking are really no different than anybody who looks down on anybody else who has a lifestyle different from their own.
    - fooandbarify 16y ago
      In my well-tested experience, there is a fine line between having fun and making an ass of yourself. The correlation between showing up to class wasted and making an ass of yourself is (again, in my own intimate experience) too large to ignore. Don't get me wrong, I like to drink a lot. And I don't look down on others who drink a lot. I certainly don't think they're dumb. But I do think promoting/encouraging/bragging about it is generally kind of silly, especially when alcoholism is a serious problem that destroys lives.
      - burgerbrain 16y ago
        In my well-tested experiance, there is a fine line between me being able to sit through a lecture that has been dumbed down to the LCD, and me saying "fuck all" and not seeing to professor again until the final. That fine line is approximately 3-4 drinks ("trashed" is an exageration). On a wet campus it is entirely the professors call, and only once did I receive a complaint (over the bottle, not my behavoir) Don't get me wrong, I think alcoholism is a problem, but I know that drinking is not. In fact, with all the recent neoprohibitionist MADD crap, I think drinking needs some public advocacy of its own.

Every college student should read this. Maybe if they had read it when I went to school, I would have gotten less harsh looks for showing up to class completely trashed every day...

jpr 16y ago
A fitting username you have.
- burgerbrain 16y ago
  The hilarious part is that I was able to spend 4 years straight intoxicated, but I ended up getting the exact same degree as the rest of them. But yeah, being wasted and doing as well as my peers sure does suggest I'm pretty dumb, doesn't it. People who look down on others for drinking are really no different than anybody who looks down on anybody else who has a lifestyle different from their own.
  - fooandbarify 16y ago
    In my well-tested experience, there is a fine line between having fun and making an ass of yourself. The correlation between showing up to class wasted and making an ass of yourself is (again, in my own intimate experience) too large to ignore. Don't get me wrong, I like to drink a lot. And I don't look down on others who drink a lot. I certainly don't think they're dumb. But I do think promoting/encouraging/bragging about it is generally kind of silly, especially when alcoholism is a serious problem that destroys lives.
    - burgerbrain 16y ago
      In my well-tested experiance, there is a fine line between me being able to sit through a lecture that has been dumbed down to the LCD, and me saying "fuck all" and not seeing to professor again until the final. That fine line is approximately 3-4 drinks ("trashed" is an exageration). On a wet campus it is entirely the professors call, and only once did I receive a complaint (over the bottle, not my behavoir) Don't get me wrong, I think alcoholism is a problem, but I know that drinking is not. In fact, with all the recent neoprohibitionist MADD crap, I think drinking needs some public advocacy of its own.