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Alcohol

College campuses are notorious for the consumption of alcohol. No matter the rules established to keep alcohol off the premises, there will always be alcohol and significant amounts of under-aged drinking. I live in Avery, a predominantly freshmen hall, and as I sit here in the laundry room, a congealed splatter of regurgitation paints the floor in the corner, next to a dryer. Another splat decorates the corner next to an overturned bike. Last night, I was not able to cruise up the stairs on my normal route because someone had relieved themselves of their conglomerated alcohol on the stairs.

Drinking alcohol used to be a staple in mild social events. You would drink until you were rosy in the cheeks and then you'd stop. For the rest of the night, you'd have either a designated driver or you'd pull an all-nighter at a friend's. Though, in this generation, people will drink until they forgot people's name or an entire night's events. They wake up with a new STD and in a completely new place from whence they chugged their first drink. The world about them is blurry, and they even find it hard to walk. Then, they inconvenience people who enjoy sober chilldin' (a saw a poster about this in the McRae House) by puking in various areas around campus.

I've had my fair share of experience, and I'm not going to try to talk down about other people, but I do believe that the drinking age should be raised and then properly enforced. Teenagers are just that, teenagers. Drinking is a huge responsiblity, and drunk driving due to bad judgement is a large problem in today's society. People forget that they live on this earth with other people, and it makes people sad when a family falls victim to a drunk driver and loses their five year old daughter.

People are children in disguise; sometimes children are more mature than the adults aroud them.