If you are about to leave for college, you may wonder how much time you might have for fun. The first year of college, students often struggle to balance their new-found freedom and the opportunities for partying with their desire to succeed in school. You need to know your limits! It is important to have fun in college but you have to balance that with the classes you must take and the study time you must invest if you want to do well.
You might also like to know that too much partying can expand the waistline and affect a student’s ability to remember the information they took the time to study.
All things considered, partying is something you will enjoy in moderation! If you have already had experience with alcohol, remember that hangovers are no fun. Drinking in moderation can be enjoyable, but drinking in excess is something for which you will pay the next day! Drink lots of water, take vitamins and try to get plenty of sleep on days when you are studying and going to class and on the days when you are going out to celebrate and party, be sure you know what your obligations are the next day, so you don’t miss critical appointments or classes. If you plan your party dates for days when you know you can sleep in and nurture yourself the following morning, you are not likely to be sorry you went to that party down the hall.
If you want to go to a party but you don’t want to overindulge, just order a beer or a glass of wine and nurse it throughout the night. Remember that it is the socialization you probably want, and the alcohol may only be a way to cover your insecurity or your lack of confidence. If everyone else is drinking more than you are drinking, no one is likely to notice you are feeling insecure. Spread out your partying and celebrating so that you enjoy it more. Otherwise, it starts to feel like a routine and you are dangerously close to letting it become a habit for which you will pay when exams roll around and you are behind on class work and studying.
For those who want a list of the top party schools (either because they want to attend them, or because they want to AVOID them), here is the list for you:
University of Texas Florida State
University of Arizona San Diego State
University of California, Santa Barbara Penn State
Rollins College Alabama State
Chico State UCONN
Ohio State East Carolina University
SUNY Oneonta SUNY Albany
Ohio University Louisiana State University
Montana State University, Bozeman University of Mississippi
Southern Illinois University Clemson
Providence College Wheaton College, MA
Ithaca College Cornell
Texas A&M University of Colorado
Plymouth State College Purdue
University of Dayton West Virginia University
Vanderbilt Heidelberg College
Baylor University of Central Florida
UMASS Amherst Iowa State
University of Delaware Westchester University, PA
Loyola Stony Brook University
George Washington University Le Moyne, College
Buena Vista University University of Kentucky
College of Charleston Georgia Southern University
University of North Carolina