comments regarding the moratorium on Coors Light

http://www.scrantonstudent.com/archive/document.php?id=54


are we all just fooling ourselves into accepting this as the college experience? Is there a life outside of "Oscar's?"

this morning i stumbled upon the article linked above. I am one of those students who'll be experiencing this real world soon, and found it so darn fitting.

My fellow peers and I have discussed this college social life numerous times. Here our Wednesday-Saturday nights consume many hours in our schedules, and even more hours in the aftermath as we struggle to regain consciousness and figure out why we "socialized" with whatever respective people we collided into by the bar or keg.

When I came to college, I was quick to realize that the truer friends were not the ones I met at parties. The party people wouldn't stick around in my life unless we had the same drinking schedule. More so, the people I met in class, extracurricaulars, intramurals, or even random places like on the bus going home or on retreat somehow had a bigger impact.

I cannot think of any real romance that blossomed from meeting at a bar. Not for myself, and I can't say goes for anyone who I know is in a bf/gf status here currently. People randomly exit the romance department as randomly as they appeared when it comes to this kind of socializing.

Why?

Well, for starters, things get really confused once the sun goes down, as if dating someone isn't naturally complicated and confusing. Getting drunk doesn't help the situation.

I think meeting people outside the party-world lets you get to know them at a normal pace. Its not the let-me-get-to-know-you-in-one-night deal.

If anyone has proof of life that there is an exception, please do share.

I've also noticed that if I'm seeing someone and we go together to a bar or party, it kind of screws things up. I guess it works if you are in a more solidly established (insert R word here) as opposed to just getting to know each other.

Besides, at bars and keggers, there are other distractions, and the social pressures commonly referred to as "friends of that person you are dating" in one way or another influence things. Suddenly you're not just dating that person, you're dating their whole posse.

Some people have asked if dating even exists in Scranton? Depends what you mean by dating. I've spent some great "real" quality time with people and it is what you make of it.

I pity the fool who thinks the basement gatherings are as good as it gets.

However, I have to hand it to the writer of that article saying "Many of my best and worst memories from this University have been made with that red Solo cup" because I as well as many of my dudes and duettes who really know how to have a good time can say cheers to that.

After all, it is the college experience too. And it only comes once a lifetime and only lasts for about four or a few more years. so here goes....eeinie, meenie....