It’s a Friday night and I’m sitting at home with my dog watching Food Network.
Saturday night -- same scenario.

I am often not invited out. I am often left alone because “I don’t party.” I am a college student who has never done drugs and rarely drinks. I’m not a weed smoker, never have and never will. I can count the number of times I've been drunk on two hands and I hated my life every time. I don’t like the feeling of being dizzy and not having control over my senses and the situation around me. I don’t see an issue with that. But in college, people rarely get invited out to play beer pong while drinking water.

A lot of college students party every weekend and put together Facebook events for Beer Olympics or Saturday Night Ragers.
When inviting friends: “Let’s invite Tanner, he gets hammered every weekend and he’s hilarious. These three girls get sloppy drunk and that’s always fun. Obviously these guys, we see them out every weekend.” No one thinks about the girl who is just there to have fun.
Some of my friend groups get together to smoke weed. This is their bonding time and while it seems great that my friends are spending time together, I never get this same bonding time that they do.

Despite the fact that I do not drink or do drugs, does not mean that I do not like parties or spending time with people. The people going to these parties are my friends, my teammates, and I think of some of them as family. But when I get left home with no invite via Facebook or text..it is hurtful to me. Not even a thought of an invite from the host or anyone in attendance.

When people think about who to invite, they bring the people to make this party the best one of the year, or the people who would make the best beer Olympic team. I am never in this thought process. Despite the fact that you can be GREAT at drinking games, having a low tolerance for alcohol which comes from the lack of drinking doesn't make you the first choice for a drinking partner.

I know that I do not partake in typical college festivities, but that does not mean that I do not want to hang out or do not party. I would still go and I promise you that I would have a lot of fun. I would not bring you down with my lack of a "buzz". I am confident enough to be as crazy as you are with alcohol without it. I would fit in more than you think I would.