College is for partying, right? That’s all anyone ever warns you about, anyways. Pick a DD, watch your drink, know your limits, watch out for your friends and have a plan.
But at the same time, everyone – mainly movies, tv shows, and the media in general – makes partying out to be THE thing to do. They instill a major FOMO (fear of missing out) in you and tell you that you’re a loser if you don’t go out.
Well, take it from me: parties, honestly, aren’t all that great. For the most part, it’s the same drunken idiots milling about, impossibly long bathroom lines, filth everywhere, skewed male to female ratios, and, eight times out of ten, it gets shut down by one a.m.
Furthermore, I have never heard any college-aged person bash on another for choosing to stay in. In fact, they’ll usually commend the person for it, saying things like, “Ugh that’s such a good idea. You do you.”.
Going out is a choice. If you feel forced or otherwise pressured to go out, you’re probably not going to have a good time. Making the decision to stay home is fine, no matter the reason – whether it’s because you have actual responsibilities to take care of or because you’d simply rather stay in or anything in between: it’s okay.
It’s definitely not lame and it doesn’t make you a loser if you stay in. You’re missing out on nothing.
Whether you skip one party, one weekend of partying, or every party: it’s okay. You’re not going to let anyone down by not going. The odds of a party changing your life for the better is slim, anyways.
