You've been slaving away all week doing work, going to practices, and trying to stay awake in 8 a.m. classes, when it finally happens, the weekend! The anticipation of this weekend has made it possible for you to make it through your last class of the week and now its time to let loose. As my father always said, work hard and play hard. But what are you going to do this weekend?
There are a few different types of nights you can have in college:
1. Frat Night
This night has a couple of different parts. There is the prep stage where you fuss over the details of your hair, outfit, and listen to your favorite music. Then the pregame at whatever random or not so random dorm room where intense pump up music happens. After you're drunk enough to not need a beer from the crowded frat bar comes the trip to the frats; which tends to be an adventure in itself. Once you're in the frats its a bunch of trashy fun music to dance to. And after a night at the frats, anything can happen...
2. School Planned Event
Every college has alternate events that they plan for people who either are not a fan of the frat scene or want to try something different. At Trinity, there is painting and roller disco and a thousand other very fun alternatives to the frats. Some people write off the school planned events as being lame but honestly they can be better than a night at the frats in so many ways.
3. Chill Night In
This night is self-explanatory. Get some good friends and some fun conversations. These nights are some of the best you will have because in all honesty being around awesome people will make anything you do fun.
4. Drunk Dinner/Movie Night
This is the night where you plan to go out for dinner and drink and talk about everything. Or the alternative is that you get drunk and watch some amazingly ridiculous movies on your little computer propped up on your refrigerator with some cool humans. Either way, you are drinking and being with people you love.
5. Netflix (2 a.m. Adventure)
Sometimes this crazy thing happens when you decide to have a night in and just curl into a ball and watch Netflix. What happens is that everything has been calm and cool until one of your friends who went out gives you a call and tells you they lost a shoe and can't remember how to get home. As a good friend you jump out of your bed and get ready to save your friend and have an adventure.
6. Let's Just See What Happens
If you're like most college students you don't really have a set plan of what you're doing until about an hour before you're supposed to leave. However, since I happen to be a planner it has been hard for me to just wing it on nights that I want to be really fun.
Here's a secret you probably already knew: When you don't plan things the night can turn out better (or worse) than you could have thought!!! What I've found is that it's worth the risk of a "bad" night because sometimes the universe works and everything goes right.
What I will say is no matter what kind of night you end up having, surround yourself with great friends and any night could be one that you talk about for years. Keep in mind, in 30 years no one remembers the night that they got a good nights sleep.
