You say partying kills brain cells, I say it teaches lessons. Partying in college teaches us so many life lessons that will remain with us forever. Here are a few.
1. Time Management.
You never want to be the person sitting at home watching snapchats of all your friends at a killer party because you have homework you procrastinated doing. After missing one party that your friends won't stop raving about you learn to manage your time so you never miss another.
2. Be aware of your surroundings.
You never want to miss a chance for a free drink. Partying teaches you to be cautious of your surroundings because you never want to miss the drunk guy at the end of the bar buying shots for everyone.
3. How to budget your money.
Go to dinner and eat a good meal? Nah, grab some Ramen and a bottle. Partying teaches you how to budget your money so that you can keep food on your table but also a drink in your hand.
4. How to bargain shop.
You would never walk into a store and buy something knowing that a store down the street was selling the same merchandise but at a discounted price. So why do it with bars? Partying in college teaches you to bargain shop at the bars, always making sure to hit the one with the best deals that night.
5. The power of a Four Loko.
Any person in college knows that someone starting their night off drinking a Four Loko is only trying to do one thing, get drunk. One Four Loko has the power to put anyone on their ass by the end of the night.
6. How to rally.
Everyone wants to go out Friday nights and celebrate the beginning of the weekend, but what about when you wake up Saturday morning super hungover but have plans to tailgate that whole day? Partying in college teaches you how to man up and face that hangover with more alcohol.
7. Never take too many y-bombs.
Challenging your friends to chug a vodka and red bull out of a can sounds like a good idea until the next morning when you're faced with a deathly hangover.
8. Drinking vodka water doesn't work.
Everyone always ends up switching to vodka waters at some point in their college years because they want to "lose weight." Only shortly they return to their whiskeys or rums because they learned that losing weight and alcohol don't go in the same sentence.
9. There are two types of shoes.
You have the shoes you wear to dinner or every day and then you have the shoes you save for the bars because lord knows they won't be coming home looking the same way they left.
10. How to make memories.
We may have been sent to college to get an education, but we were also sent to make memories. College is the best four years of your life where you are meant to make mistakes, drink too much, stay out way too late and make lifelong memories you will reminisce over years later.
