Student culture

hi all

Hope you like the new setup i have!

Well tonight at my uni is fabric night! and i must be one of the few students not going from the halls, and i'm glad to be honest. I really don't get the whole drinking thing, it wastes money and makes you unhealthy so why do it?

I know i eat loads of chocolate and i do other thing that arent the best for me, but i really want to keep hold of my sense when i go out, it's my view that binge drinking and the acceptance for all policy at university is reducing the quality of graduates. I recognise that student through out time have had a history of heavy drinking but, i'm sure they are a much more intelligent lot!

The feeling i get very often is you dont often see an intelligista drnking 10 pints of stella on a regular basis, anywhere else in society it would be considered as alcoholism, but in this one, the society seems to glorify binge drinking, like its a must thing to do. I've often heard of students saying to me, "oh you need to drink to have fun"

Are these people such zombies that they need drink to be sociable? how do they cope having fun without alcohol, my gosh they seem like fun people.

I'am of course widely generalizing, and these are just my thoughts about things, feel free to disagree with them!