So I have yet another experience to tell you about today. This story has potential to be long and drawn out but since my last couple entries were lengthy I will attempt to make this one short and to the point.
This weekend I went on my first school sponsored event. Which to most people is a students worst nightmare. At my dorms we have school sponsored events all the time. They coin such titles as Dormformal: get your groooove on! or Board Game Night! or my favorite, XBOX 360 game night: challenge your roomates to a game of Call of Duty or Guitar Hero! Now as you probably can guess these events are not too popular. Obviously the school is putting these events on to build the community through none alcoholic events. These events are here to give kids another option rather than partying and drinking on the weekends. You have to give them credit they try hard but the only problem is that its alcohol free so no one will go. I feel bad actually for the directors of these events. They are fighting a battle that they can never win.
Anyway the only way anyone is going to go to one of these events is if its an event you cannot turn down. For an example, a FREE weekend trip to one of the biggest ski resorts in Colorado, with free catered food, free passes, and free lodging at one of the resort's prestigious hotels! Yes this example was the only school sponsored trip I have attended this year. See something like this is hard to turn down. The only catch was that participating students would have to talk about alcohol at CU and what trends we have noticed. It was basically a mini alcohol education class; which in my opinion was well worth it.
What basically happened is that my roommate and I won a spot on this trip through a raffle that was outside of our cafeteria. The trip limit was 50 students and we were one of those lucky winners. The rules to the event was no alcohol, a good attitude, and participation in the alcohol discussion sessions, they were about 2 hours a day. Easy enough right? Well we leave for this trip and it looks like its a going to be good time even with no alcohol included and who cares if there is no alcohol, its basically a 5 star vacation, what more could you need? Well it turned out that this fantastic trip wasn't enough for some students.
Word got around fast through the students attending that some kids brought a couple handles of vodka with them to make the trip more "enjoyable" per say. Basically some students got together the nights we were there and raged. The usual happened, someone booted in the hallway, the directors found out and the kids drinking had to pay for their half of the trip which was about $400 to $500 per person. Then for the rest of the trip the director was rather pissed off to say the least which set a sour mood for the remainder of the trip.
Seee now this is just pitiful, I'm sorry but come'on. We are going on this sweet ass trip which is totally free and the event's big theme is alcohol free. But kids still can't keep from drinking even on a trip like this when the event leaders are trying so hard to teach us that we don't have to drink all the time; you can still have fun without alcohol. But people still have to bring alcohol with them and go against everything these people are trying so hard to do. Its like anything the school tries to do when it comes to alcohol free events fails. The only thing that has worked for CU is enforcing under aged drinking more strictly through the police.
From what i have found, school sponsored events are usually up for failure. Unless it is on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night. Other than that your majority of kids will not come or if they do come they're drunk. I am quickly realizing that the "popular" or "cool" social aspects of school is all about live, drink, sleep with alcohol. At least that it was it may appear... I never thought it could get this out of hand. I wonder how much better student life would be if students knew how to control their alcohol consumption and had some self discipline and control. No one realizes that you lose your head when your drunk and it rarely turns out good.
John
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