As college students, it’s almost safe to say that all of us have taken on midnight misadventures at some point. This involves the oh-so-adventurous outing to the bars. We know that when we start to get into the late hours of drinking it can be hazy, and also a bit of a blur, but regardless, you’ll probably still have a good time. If you are not as fortunate enough to be like one of the hundreds of other patrons who have been drinking, you might have shown up to the bar sober… Well you, my friend, are in for a treat (not really).

You’ve probably been dragged out because it’s a Tuesday night and you have class tomorrow but you promised your friend that you would accompany them for their birthday. Just for an hour or two. You’re not here to drink, so what are you going to do? People watch (and also see how going to a bar sober can be one of the biggest eye opening experiences that can occur to you and your college career).

What you will first encounter is that the atmosphere when you’re sober is a lot different than when you have a few cold ones. When you walk in on a normal, not-so-sober night, you could care less about the people bumping and sweating and the music being way to loud that you could potentially bleed from the ears. But this time, when you’re sober, you notice it. It bothers you immensely and you immediately regret coming here.

You can scan the scene to find almost everybody trying their hardest to get laid. You walk out to the dance floor and in the shining of the blue, green, and pink lights of the dance floor you will the see the lit up faces of drunken zombies just dancing along to the beat of the DJ. The music is pounding in your chest and you can’t tell if you’re having a heart attack or not. If someone tries to talk to you, you can almost guarantee that you won't hear them, at all. They will still continue to scream in your face to get the point across. You can also find people who look like they are on the verge of death and it hurts you a little bit to see the pain these people are going through, but again, survival of the fittest. Am I right? Watching the mass of people interact is probably the most entertaining and also most shocking part of the evening (even if some of them are about to puke up a lung). Sweat is everywhere, and only you care because you aren’t drunk. The temperature in the room could melt the ice caps at any moment as well. This isn’t what you signed up for at all.

If you’re a girl, be prepared for a swarm of drunk men to come up and try their best to hit on you. It might be comical sometimes, but it also might be blatantly aggressive and inappropriate. It’s really a flip of the coin when the situation presents itself.

Also, you’re going to get drinks spilled on you, a lot. You will question why you ever came here in the first place. You’ll start to wonder if you are anything like this when you go out and drink with your friends. You’ll probably try and convince yourself "No, that’s not how I act." No, yeah it is. You can’t be blamed for this kind of behavior though, because we all get like this when we’ve been drinking. You might as well just start drinking to take the edge off of what has taken place this night. Regardless, it’s a fun experience to be on the other side of the table at some point in your colorful college career.