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Afraid of the drinking culture at universities
Now I have never been to university, but I'm all set to go in September and I'm afraid. I may alienate everybody my age by saying this (because as it seems in my town, it's true that no-one else seems to feel this way) but I am afraid of everyone just wanted to go out and get wasted all the time. I mean my brother was at university and he got drunk a lot and everyone (even films I watch) lately has been saying ENJOY UNIVERSITY, GO OUT AND GET WASTED BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE. This puts me under a lot of pressure. Am I the only one?
I drank a lot as a teen (my lowly rebellious years- 14-15 ish) and I'm quite embarrassed about how drunk I got. But I got over it quickly and now all my other friends who didn't do that are doing it now and they're heading off to uni as well, looking to play drinking games, do shots and do crayzee things when drunk.
Can anyone give me some reassurance that it's not going to be totally like that?
P.s. Sorry if this is on the wrong board. I thought this would be the best place to get the attention of other students at or going to uni.
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I drank a lot as a teen (my lowly rebellious years- 14-15 ish) and I'm quite embarrassed about how drunk I got. But I got over it quickly and now all my other friends who didn't do that are doing it now and they're heading off to uni as well, looking to play drinking games, do shots and do crayzee things when drunk.
Can anyone give me some reassurance that it's not going to be totally like that?
P.s. Sorry if this is on the wrong board. I thought this would be the best place to get the attention of other students at or going to uni.
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I felt exactly the same when I started uni, I felt like Id done all my mad drinking binges before I started (I was 21 when I started uni) so I wasnt really interested when I got there
I wouldnt worry too much, you can still have a great time without getting absoloutely wrecked, and there will be loads of other people in the same situation as you who feel exactly the same
You dont have to get totally rat-ars*d every night just to have a good time, so try not to put too much pressure on yourself, you'll be fine
I wouldnt worry too much, you can still have a great time without getting absoloutely wrecked, and there will be loads of other people in the same situation as you who feel exactly the same
You dont have to get totally rat-ars*d every night just to have a good time, so try not to put too much pressure on yourself, you'll be fine
thisbemadness I love your avatar
Its very easy to enjoy your self at university. In fact unions are being forced to bring in the safe drinking message and bring in non/little drinking activities. Plenty of people are happy to sit around and drink the odd alcoholic drink and not get rat arsed trying to move my body to something that promotes sex
Its very easy to enjoy your self at university. In fact unions are being forced to bring in the safe drinking message and bring in non/little drinking activities. Plenty of people are happy to sit around and drink the odd alcoholic drink and not get rat arsed trying to move my body to something that promotes sex
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Now I have never been to university, but I'm all set to go in September and I'm afraid. I may alienate everybody my age by saying this (because as it seems in my town, it's true that no-one else seems to feel this way) but I am afraid of everyone just wanted to go out and get wasted all the time. I mean my brother was at university and he got drunk a lot and everyone (even films I watch) lately has been saying ENJOY UNIVERSITY, GO OUT AND GET WASTED BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE. This puts me under a lot of pressure. Am I the only one?
I drank a lot as a teen (my lowly rebellious years- 14-15 ish) and I'm quite embarrassed about how drunk I got. But I got over it quickly and now all my other friends who didn't do that are doing it now and they're heading off to uni as well, looking to play drinking games, do shots and do crayzee things when drunk.
Can anyone give me some reassurance that it's not going to be totally like that?
P.s. Sorry if this is on the wrong board. I thought this would be the best place to get the attention of other students at or going to uni.
x
I drank a lot as a teen (my lowly rebellious years- 14-15 ish) and I'm quite embarrassed about how drunk I got. But I got over it quickly and now all my other friends who didn't do that are doing it now and they're heading off to uni as well, looking to play drinking games, do shots and do crayzee things when drunk.
Can anyone give me some reassurance that it's not going to be totally like that?
P.s. Sorry if this is on the wrong board. I thought this would be the best place to get the attention of other students at or going to uni.
x
I feel the same
I'll be going to uni in September, and I don't really like alcohol, so I don't drink it. You're not alone.
Nah definitley not alone there! This is the one aspect of uni life i'm really not looking forward to, and actually turned down some of my choices based on their ethos of getting bladdred every night- all they talked about on the guided trips was how amazing it will be leaving home getting drunk and falling into bushes... hmm i think not!! Plus like you guys i've already been there and done all that having had a gap year.
I just don't want to alienate myself like the OP said by not been up for it all the time. I like bars and pubs better than clubbing but i know in Freshers week i will probably have to go to some big nights just to be sociable!
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I just don't want to alienate myself like the OP said by not been up for it all the time. I like bars and pubs better than clubbing but i know in Freshers week i will probably have to go to some big nights just to be sociable!
heheheheSo many people ask this question on TSR, that fact alone should re-assure you that there are plenty of students whose idea of a good time is not getting off their face.
You will find there is enough to do that does not revolve around drinking and lots of like-minded people, if you get out and look for them.
You will find there is enough to do that does not revolve around drinking and lots of like-minded people, if you get out and look for them.
I'm almost a teetotaller really- I don't particularly like the tate of alcohol and I definitely don't see the attraction of doing stupid things all night and waking up with a splitting headache throwing up everywhere! So I might have one drink ocassionally, but that's as far as I go, and I've just finished my first year at uni. Yes, most people are far too interested in getting wasted every night and not much else, but there are also plenty of people who either don't drink at all or don't drink much. You can still go out to pubs or clubs if that's your thing, but just have a Coke or whatever. You'll probably get a few strange looks and people will probably ask you why you don't drink, but in my experience at least, no one will pressure you into it, and if they do, they're not the sort of people you want to be friends with anyway.
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I do drink,but know when to stop-I don't like getting too drunk. I respect people who don't drink and my brother doesn't-he's as Uni and has never been forced at all as far as I know. It's just accepted-he has so much more money than most of his friends too.
Exactly the same for me Dont worry about it OP
I love drinking and intend to drink alot. But you will inevitably find a number of people who are of the same stance with regards to drink as you are. you will have something to worry about if you typecast all students who drink in the same way. But I don't think you have anything to worry about. You'll have a good time in your own way.Melissa85
lol, so what the ones who go on binge rampages are kids who have never done it or anything else for that matter before uni.
tbh uni is a major let down if you've drank/had sex/took drugs/gone to clubs and had to curfew before uni. I found it a bore.
tbh uni is a major let down if you've drank/had sex/took drugs/gone to clubs and had to curfew before uni. I found it a bore.
really? ffs 
ah well, isn't the first year quite easy and just introduces the course so all the kids from home counties can run around thinking they're in 'skins' but not miss out on much?
i don't mind getting drunk but i don't go out to get drunk it just happens from sitting in a pub or a garden drinking for a period of time.
ah well, isn't the first year quite easy and just introduces the course so all the kids from home counties can run around thinking they're in 'skins' but not miss out on much?
pretty much mate, i could have done without it really and graduated with less debt a year earlier
It's not that I don't like fun its just that its pretty much out of my system . I was sleeping(ok lying down, resting with my eyes closed really) in clubs at 19 and I bs you not it's that boring to me sometimes.
pretty much mate, i could have done without it really and graduated with less debt a year earlier
It's not that I don't like fun its just that its pretty much out of my system . I was sleeping(ok lying down, resting with my eyes closed really) in clubs at 19 and I bs you not it's that boring to me sometimes.
Melissa85
lol, so what the ones who go on binge rampages are kids who have never done it or anything else for that matter before uni.
tbh uni is a major let down if you've drank/had sex/took drugs/gone to clubs and had to curfew before uni. I found it a bore.
tbh uni is a major let down if you've drank/had sex/took drugs/gone to clubs and had to curfew before uni. I found it a bore.
Kind of the same for me. Not that I did all of those things before uni (or indeed during so far). I was expecting the first few weeks at least to be a massive piss up, but it wasn't really. I just didn't really make friends with people who drink as much as my friends back home.
In a lot of cases, people really exagerate the drinking culture at uni. And the cases where it's not exagerated it'll probably be a pretty small social group that drinks that much.
Don't feel obliged to drink because everyone else is doing it.
The tired stereotype of every student in a university sitting in a pub or union and necking 9 pints a night doesn't hold much water. The joy of university is that it is so vast in its accommodation of all students' tastes, whether you are a rugger bugger who likes to get whammed every night, a quieter individual who doesn't like to drink, or someone in-between.
Just take it as it comes, drink or no drink.
The tired stereotype of every student in a university sitting in a pub or union and necking 9 pints a night doesn't hold much water. The joy of university is that it is so vast in its accommodation of all students' tastes, whether you are a rugger bugger who likes to get whammed every night, a quieter individual who doesn't like to drink, or someone in-between.
Just take it as it comes, drink or no drink.
would it be correct in saying that the better the uni the worse the social life?
i'll probably get gattered in fresher's week then just leave at that, if i'm paying 9large a year then i can do without 70p mixed bottles. also could you crudely stereotype the kind of people that live in halls of residence, and city accommodation please
i'll probably get gattered in fresher's week then just leave at that, if i'm paying 9large a year then i can do without 70p mixed bottles. also could you crudely stereotype the kind of people that live in halls of residence, and city accommodation please
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