College Party Life?

[Billinsd]

I started in 83, I think? I got a BS in Geology, BS in Civil Engineering and finally an MS in Civil Engineering. I never joined a Fraternity, because my classes were real tough and I worked to support myself. I didn't have the time. I sure remember RUSH week and the open parties that recommended a $2 donation and had a great time at the beginning of each semester. SDSU or SUDS as some us called it was and still is a party school. It was a blessing and a course for me. Things got way out of hand for the fraternities in the 80s and the open parties become part of my memory.
How about you all?

 

[Billinsd]

It was and is a ginormous college. The Calculus, and Physics classes were hard to get, but engineering and especially geology were not. I crashed my fair share of classes. I remember crashing my 3rd semester Calculus class, with 15 more students over the class limit. I got in and by the end of the semester out of a class of 45 there were 15 left, everyone had dropped. I was struggling and got a C, several others got Ds. The math Professor was a diminutive Dutch guy, who was extremely rude and condescending and a poor instructor. I remember several sadistic professors I had were assaulted by their students. The worst was a triple murder. I knew the guy as an acquaintance! I used to wave at him, when he was sitting at a bench outside the engineering department and say "hows it going".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_State_University_shooting

 

[AZ8]

'87-'91

Crazy times and some of the best times too. I came from a small town and college life was a cultural shock to me. Personally, I think 18 years old is too young.... just too much freedom to get sidetracked.

If I could do it all over, I would have sat out the first year after high school graduation. It would have been better served to continue working on the fire crew with the forest service just to get more maturity. Loved that job!! My small town buds and I clearly weren't ready for the debauchery we witnessed in college.

My advice to young adults finishing up high school: Don't feel pressured to go to college. Its not for everyone. Go pursue a career in the trades or nursing or any other specialized field.

 

[CorbLand]

2010-2015 for me. I didn't party much in college but did drink a shit load of beer. I preferred hanging out with a small group of friends over big parties. I had about two semesters where I spent to much time drinking but woke up after that and was dedicated to my studies. Overall, I handled freedom a lot better than most of the kids I went to school with.

To the younger kids. Only you understand who you are and what you want to do. You need some form of education after high school but that education can come in many forms. My wife did pharmacy tech, it took 8 months and cost about 1200 bucks. She started out making 3 dollars less an hour than I started with a 20,000 dollar 4 year degree. My cousin barely graduated high school but he is one hell of a plumber and is always busy with work. One of my friends graduated high school with a 4.0 and had a decent scholarship for college. He got an associates and bounced to become a cop and he is happy as can be.

 

[Mike Islander]

Early 80s I was a Navy man (Submariner) in Navy Schools in my hometown of San Diego California. School ran from 2PM to 10PM, so we were Lords of the night after classes. And I was Lord of the city...my city. It was just before zero tolerance, so all manner of drugs was not only tolerated but in a sense encouraged. Our instructors would say, "Just not on the base." We had every bit as outrageous parties as any college crew ever did. Of that I'm sure.

I ended up going to college after I got out of the service six years later. College of Charleston was about five girls to every guy at that time. But by then I was very happily married (still am). I enjoyed the hell out of the scenery and the fantastic professors. Made a couple of lifelong friends who had also gotten out and then went to college.

 

[NoWiser]

I started college in '02. I drank way too much, way too often, but never was one for frat parties or big house parties. I have no idea how, but I graduated Magna Cum Laude. I was pretty strict with myself when it came to attendance, unless it was a super easy class during hunting season.

My advisor freshman year was a Vietnam vet. The first day of school freshman year we had an orientation class with our advisor. I got their early and sat down. As I was waiting a kid walked in with a backwards hat on. My advisor called him to the front of the room, stared him straight in the eyes, and said "the only people who wear their hats like that are "n-words" and retards, and you don't look like a "n-word" to me." I just about fell out of my seat. I was on spring break in the Dominican Republic with friends senior year and we heard he (my advisor) died. Most of us had actually had him for a professor by then. Figured he had a heart attack shoveling snow. Turns out he tried to kill his wife with an axe and then blew his own head off. That war messed him up bad.

My best friends to this day, 15 years later, are all college buddies. I don't regret a night of our nonsense. We made a lot of great memories.

 

[Poser]

94-99. No Greek life for me, though it was a big time Greek life school and definitely had a few bar fights and rumbles and all out brawls a la “ Road House” with frat boys. That timeframe was peak popularity of aggressive music as pop culture, so my recollection is a lot of drunken mosh pits. I went to New Orleans frequently during that time as the drinking age was still 18 there and went to Ireland for spring break of my freshman year because it seemed like the great ROI for drinking opportunities. I was a pretty serious student, though, had great attendance, did my work, took some extra classes out of interest and held down a job delivering food for “Steak Out”, which was pretty good money as I recall. At least As much as my friends made waiting tables and gas was like 72 cents a gallon, so it wasn’t even a real consideration or limiting factor in road trips.

 

[Kimber7man]

Started college at an all male engineering school in fall of 83. Joined Lambda Chi. Total wet rush, and wet parties. we had changed to “dry” parties by 87.
Alcohol was widely accepted. Drugs were not and the county sheriff would get called in, and you would be expelled. Zero tolerance even for pot.
Best decision I ever made, my best friends are 3 of my fraternity brothers.
of course it’s a co-ed school now…

only advice I would give is don’t try to take calculus and physics at an engineering school if you haven’t taken them in HS. That was rough….

 

[TxxAgg]

Ahhhhh....the good ol' days

 

[wind gypsy]

Didn't do the greek thing. At NDSU it seems like greek life suited a lot of folks who might struggle to make friends without it. Did live in houses that hosted house parties multiple days a week for a couple years. My soph year it was rare for a single night to go by where there weren't at least 5 people who didn't live there over drinking, usually many more. That house burned in a fire and 3 of my 4 roommates dropped out that year..

I started college in '02. I drank way too much, way too often, but never was one for frat parties or big house parties. I have no idea how, but I graduated Magna Cum Laude. I was pretty strict with myself when it came to attendance, unless it was a super easy class during hunting season.

My advisor freshman year was a Vietnam vet. The first day of school freshman year we had an orientation class with our advisor. I got their early and sat down. As I was waiting a kid walked in with a backwards hat on. My advisor called him to the front of the room, stared him straight in the eyes, and said "the only people who wear their hats like that are "n-words" and retards, and you don't look like a "n-word" to me." I just about fell out of my seat. I was on spring break in the Dominican Republic with friends senior year and we heard he (my advisor) died. Most of us had actually had him for a professor by then. Figured he had a heart attack shoveling snow. Turns out he tried to kill his wife with an axe and then blew his own head off. That war messed him up bad.

Wow. Where did you go to school? Hard to imagine a guy being employed for long doing stuff like that.

 

[Chucklehead]

I went to trade school = a total sausage fest
Drank enough beer in 18 months to fill a Olympic sized swimming pool though.

 

[robby denning]

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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[BadDogPSD]

Graduated in 1986. I never joined a fraternity but had many friends that joined. I worked & played football so I didn't have time for the fraternity life. But the parties were pretty fun!

 

[NoWiser]

Wow. Where did you go to school? Hard to imagine a guy being employed for long doing stuff like that.

I went to UW-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin. I majored in construction. The professors in our department definitely were not your typical college professor types. It was a great school with abundant hunting and fishing opportunities just minutes out of town in any direction.

 

[CorbLand]

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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What college did you go to Robby? ISU?

 

[HbDane]

Santa Barbara City College career 99-00. Partied the whole time went to school to pick up on girls. Isla Vista was the perfect place for me to screw my life up. Joined the Navy after going on a 5 day coke binge. Glad I did or I'd be dead by now.

 

[archp625]

University of Missouri 03-07. I partied here and there. I wish I could go back and do it all over gain. I would have taken my summers off instead of taking classes and working in a lab. Now I have a wife and two kids. No more partying for me.

 

[wind gypsy]

I went to UW-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin. I majored in construction. The professors in our department definitely were not your typical college professor types. It was a great school with abundant hunting and fishing opportunities just minutes out of town in any direction.

Funny. That was one of the schools I was choosing between a couple years after you and ended up with a construction management degree.

One might not guess this but a lot of the construction management professors/advisors in fargo were from africa/middle east and seemingly never spent a day outside of academia. I was tending a booth for my employer at the college career fair a couple years after graduation and my former advisor inquired about a job

 

[switchback7]

'10-'15 for me. Saint Cloud State University, Miinnesota.

Majored in Mass Comm/Radio Broadcasting and Minored in Communication Studies.

GO HUSKIES

 

[cornfedkiller]

'10-'15 for me. Saint Cloud State University, Miinnesota.

Hardly any partying goes on there!