College Party Life?

[switchback7]

Hardly any partying goes on there!

noooo, none lol

 

[GSPHUNTER]

USN 68-72. Not a lot of parties on board and no females back then so, when we hit port it got kind of wild. The way some of the guys fought over, I'm trying to think of a kind word here, women, you would think they were fighting over their wives. I learned fast where the phrase, " like drunkin sailors" came from. There were a lot of good times I don't remember. The school of hard knocks. Anchors Aweigh.

 

[Geewhiz]

I'm pretty sure I'm dumber than most people but I had to study so much I didn't have time to party and I still barely passed a few classes. And the free time I did have I was in the hills.

 

[Squincher]

I was married with two children by the time I went to college, but the Army sent me to Germany for three years when I was 18 so I don't feel I was short changed party wise.

 

[Blockcaver]

Mining Engineering at UW, Platteville, ‘70 - ‘74….nick named Whiskey Tech many years before I enrolled. The miners had every bit as a good a times as the frat boys. But we also knew how to study or you had no shot at graduating. The only classes I ever skipped interfered with the Friday evening whitetail hunt. Think I had a fall GPA of 2.75 and spring GPA of 3.75. But the bowhunting was worth it.

 

[5MilesBack]

Colorado State University 1983-1987. Yes, I was in a fraternity. Partying, basketball, and girls were about all I was there for. I had a 4.0 in high school but had never studied in my life. I discovered I could do the same in college as well and rarely went to class. I'd take off for three weeks straight for hunting season and come back and work some kind of deal with my profs for quizzes and tests. Never had a problem working something out with them. I was all over the place with classes......majored in finance with a minor in math for three years, then changed my major to economics. But took chemistry as an elective because I liked it in high school.

Parties were legendary. My sister was also there (two years older) and was shocked at some of the stuff that went on. Yes......raunchy toga parties were a mainstay. Full on Luau's with built ponds, tiki huts, flowers and lei's direct from Hawaii (thanks Dano....our Hawaii resident), and full pig on the spit slow roasting all night. The campus Coors rep was one of our members and we had kegs on tap 24/7 the entire time I was there. Waking up to Captain Crunch drowned in cold beer. We had a College Days party one year with 120 kegs and they were empty before midnight.

"College.....the best 10 years of my life"......LOL. But I'm worlds away from that life these days.......thank goodness. I would have died years ago if I'd kept that life up.

 

[Phaseolus]

I was an Entomology student but not interested in fraternities. Some friends and I got kicked out of a frat party. We got even by raising a whole bunch of german cockroach egg cases. I’m sure that house still has a cockroach problem

 

[Phaseolus]

Colorado State University 1983-1987. Yes, I was in a fraternity. Partying, basketball, and girls were about all I was there for. I had a 4.0 in high school but had never studied in my life. I discovered I could do the same in college as well and rarely went to class. I'd take off for three weeks straight for hunting season and come back and work some kind of deal with my profs for quizzes and tests. Never had a problem working something out with them. I was all over the place with classes......majored in finance with a minor in math for three years, then changed my major to economics. But took chemistry as an elective because I liked it in high school.

Parties were legendary. My sister was also there (two years older) and was shocked at some of the stuff that went on. Yes......raunchy toga parties were a mainstay. Full on Luau's with built ponds, tiki huts, flowers and lei's direct from Hawaii (thanks Dano....our Hawaii resident), and full pig on the spit slow roasting all night. The campus Coors rep was one of our members and we had kegs on tap 24/7 the entire time I was there. Waking up to Captain Crunch drowned in cold beer. We had a College Days party one year with 120 kegs and they were empty before midnight.

"College.....the best 10 years of my life"......LOL. But I'm worlds away from that life these days.......thank goodness. I would have died years ago if I'd kept that life up.

You misspelled, “College Daze”.

 

[toadmeister]

They made a documentary about my college life, Animal House. In hindsight, I was lucky to survive...

Winona State Minnesota, Materials Science Composite Materials Engineering.

I just dropped my 18-year old son off for his Freshman year at Iowa State. I hope he doesn't do half the things I did but hope he has fun too

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[coloyooper]

Oh I let er rip for 4 years straight in Green Bay, WI

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Oh I let er rip for 4 years straight in Green Bay, WI

Ya, they don't drink too much up there. only two times a year, the first six months and the second six moths.

 

[ChrisA]

They made a documentary about my college life, Animal House. In hindsight, I was lucky to survive...

Winona State Minnesota, Materials Science Composite Materials Engineering.

I just dropped my 18-year old son off for his Freshman year at Iowa State. I hope he doesn't do half the things I did but hope he has fun too

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My son went over on Wednesday. He's a freshman too and is living in same dorm complex that I did. Hopefully he doesn't do a fraction of the shit and partying that we did in the mid 90's.

The college years may have something to do with me posting in the "quitting alcohol" thread.

Go Cyclones!

 

[Mike Islander]

I avoided the fraternity and opted to live in a quiet hall.

Total nerdville but I’d already dropped out of high school once, so wanted to get it right.

Glad I did.

Partying not too much of interruption to my education.

Now hunting was another story…


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Ah, nice to meet another high school drop out college grad! Definitely was motivating in college for me.

 

[zion zig zag]

I went to college in NC right after high school. By mid terms I was already on academic probation so I decided to not enroll for spring and moved out west. I got my fill of partying working at the ski area and landscaping/odd jobs in the summer.
I finally went back to school almost ten years later. Full-time student while working three jobs with little kids at home. Funny how wanting to change that situation motivates you.

 

[LongWayAround]

I was at the University of Iowa from 07-12. The first couple years were pretty rowdy. The next few I took it pretty slow.

There was a house we frequented where it was pretty much an "anything goes" sort of atmosphere. I'll never forget some of the things I saw or heard there. The rest is a bit fuzzy...

 

[robby denning]

Ah, nice to meet another high school drop out college grad! Definitely was motivating in college for me.

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[TheTone]

I live in a university town currently. It’s great in the summers when students are gone. I’m not sure if it’s my age or what but it seems each year the students get worse. More disrespectful to people around town, more of a “look at me attitude”, and in interactions I have just totally inexperienced and unprepared for real life. For those sending kids off to college, raise them to be a decent person before they get there

 

[Loper]

In the early 2000’s I went to a big state school in the south with a good football team. I chose the school because I’d never seen so many good looking girls in one place when visiting colleges in high school. Got a head start on the partying by enrolling in summer semester just a few weeks after high school. Joined a fraternity freshman year. The socials and parties were epic. Not even worth trying to describe some of the parties. By my junior year my fraternity had built a new 40,000 sq. foot and it was the largest in the country at the time. Lived in the house the last half of my college career which was a great.

The fraternity taught me to work hard and play hard. A lot of the guys were athletes on the various school sports teams, ran student government or led other organizations on campus.

Like so many others, I learned to schedule my classes for late mornings or afternoons Monday - Thursday, with Friday’s off. I never really skipped a ton of classes. I learned that if I attended class, paid attention and put the effort in, I’d be fine and keep my scholarship. Didn’t have great grades, but not terrible either. Friday’s were mostly spent hanging out by a pool with everyone else who didn’t have classes that day.

So many fun times and good memories. However after partying hard for 4 years, I was ready to move on when the time came to graduate.

I didn’t hunt at the time but now looking back on it, I wish I did with all the opportunities around and time/flexibility I had.

 

[Mt Al]

Great stuff and good to see some others who started in the mid '80s!

Most of my friends joined fraternities, but just didn't fit my style at all. Every spare nickle and minute was spent fishing and hunting vs. being 'involved'. I remember a friend and I pooled all of our coinage, put just enough gas in the truck to get to and from a rock chuck shooting gallery, came home on fumes as our frat friends were waking up from hang overs. They did have a blast, though, and most still don't regret it, have great memories. But so do I!!

 

[ChrisA]

Transfered in to ISU fall of '92 after freshman year at a community college. Lived off campus with a guy that was in vet school and fell into what was probably depression. Joined Army National Guard and took a year off for basic and AIT.

Came back full of piss and vinegar, old enough to buy alcohol, and lived in dorms. That's when my real life after high-school began. Scheduled classes early then in the afternoon and evenings worked for a farmer with grain, cow/calf, and fed cattle operation.

Came back to dorms and partied there, at bars, or parties. Then did it again the next day. I did manage to run a trap line before class my junior and senior years. Put up and sold 75 raccoon, a few coyote and fox my senior year, now off campus.

Didn't study much but rarely missed a class, took great notes and studied those a day before tests.

Holy shit the parties though, especially tailgating.

Chris