Sometimes it gets to be 10 at night and you're sitting there thinking "I shouldn't go out, I'm so tired, I have better things to be doing." But do you actually? What should you be doing instead of partying with your friends? Homework? Nooo. Sleeping? No, you can sleep when you're dead. This is what college is all about right?! Hanging with people you won't forget doing things you can't remember. Or however that Drake lyric goes. Get out there and live it up with your friends! You only go to college once! If you don't fail out that is...
1. You deserve it
You deserve this night. After a week of hard studying, you deserve to take a break from work and reconnect with your inner child. (Yeah, you read that right. Your inner child. Tonight you’re most likely going to be vomit-covered, crying, and eventually passed out somewhere other than your bed—true baby behavior.) Get after it, girl, you deserve it.
2. Your friends miss you
Your friends got upset the last time you didn’t go out. They say they’ll miss you this time too. Not sure why, because you go out upwards of four times a week with all of them and you live with several of them, but they seem really serious in the group chat that if you don’t go out they’ll hate you forever, and honestly it’s not worth the risk.
3. You can afford it
I mean, not really. You can’t keep buying tons of drinks at bars and giant bottles of Barefoot to share among your roommates, it’s really eating into your food budget. But it’s worth it because alcohol has calories, you’re young, and seriously who buys their own drinks at bars anyway? Fugly girls, that’s who, and that’s not you. So you really can afford it, but you need to find a horny guy first to buy you some LIITs.
4. Hangovers? You can handle ‘em.
It’s not like you needed those electrolytes anyway. Put on some sunglasses, grab an iced coffee, throw up under your desk once or seven times, and power through it. Tomorrow night you’re going out again, because seriously your friends will all hate you if you don’t.
5. You need to let loose
You’re normally so uptight, so busy with responsibilities and homework and maybe even a job—it’s time to forget all that and truly lose all your inhibitions. Oh wait—god, seriously? Not those inhibitions, please put your top back on, please.
6. You’ll probably see your crush
Chances are, girl, if you’re going out, he is too. There’s no reason for him to stay at home watching porn and playing video games when there’s you—a real, breathing, girl—out and about. So text him. There’s even a chance that he didn’t spend the day crushing beers with his friends so you guys might even be able to have a real conversation. Or I dunno, you can dance up on him for a few hours, make out, and go home together only to discover he’s not, ahem, ready for you because he’s had 17 Natty Lights today. The night is for romance.
7. You only live once
It’s the motto, and it’s a good motto. You can’t spend all your time reading and writing and calculating and doing generally stupid fucking shit. Go out, be yourself. You worked hard enough for your 2.6 GPA, it’s time to enjoy life for real.
