Wet or Dry?

            When listening to the podcast “#1 Party School” I developed many opinions of what it really means to be the #1 party school. Penn State truly lives up to their title. In some of the scenarios the faculty members or families described were much different than the ones that the students talked about. To the adults, the students were out of control and parited from Thursday to Sunday. Many of them did not seem to care there were residences that were trying to sleep or enjoy time with their family. But according to the students it is always one hell of a party.

            From pre-gaming to celebrating a 21^st birthday there is always something being celebrated. Before a football game, students will pre-game in the streets or at home, no matter what the weather conditons were. Not ony would students pre-game but so would Alumni’s of Penn State. No matter where you are at the school there is always a party going on and people are always ready to celebrate the next event.

            My personal opinion about this is caught between the middle of a dry to a “wet” campus. As a freshman we tend to relate college to drinking. It is our first time out on our own with totally new freedoms. We don’t have our parents on our backs all the time and we want to take advantage of this freedom as much as we possibly can. But going to Xavier is not like going to Penn State when it comes to partying. Our campus does not present a high party life. But what go there then? Well, some students, like myself, want to go to a school because of it’s education system. I’m always down for a good party but that is not what I am looking as my first priority for a school. With partying comes many distractions. With all the parties going on it is hard to focus on schoolwork and other areas that need to be strongly focused on as well.

            If students that go to party schools, like Penn State, then they have a harder time staying focused. But students who attend a dry campus may become bored and switch to another school. I think that a college should fall in-between. Students should be able to party on the weekends and then focus on mainly their schoolwork during the weekday. Then there is a balance of having fun but also school work is being done too.