I personally feel like deciding to dorm in college was one of the best decisions I’ve made for my college career.

Sure, many L’s were taken throughout the past 3+ years but the one win out of all the others was for sure the process of going out with friends and all the actual planning and consideration that goes into it.

1. Discussing.

Honestly one, if not the, most crucial part of this entire game plan and this is why: a night of binge drinking revolves around the coordination of not remembering that night at all. It’s simple logic.

2. The pregame to the pregame.

I’ll admit it; I always think the hardest about the meal I’ll be consuming the few hours before going out. The more you eat, the more drinks you’ll just have to consume to really feel the effects of that Tequila Sunrise or the Corona you just shot gunned with your best friend.

3. The pregame.

The most significant part of the night- gone are the hours spent in each others closets, multitasking with sipping on White Girl Rose and doing the perfect contour on your nose and arguing over who’s playlist will be on the entire time.

4. THE. PHOTO. OPS.

Honestly I’ve been very blessed to be in a group of friends that are just as a fan of taking an inappropriate number of photos every time we go out as I am. This is the time where photographic evidence of looking our best is taken and kept with us forever until we don’t look like that a mere few hours later.

5. That feeling in our hands.

Personally, when the alcohol hits me, I first feel it in the palms of my hands and once I feel that feeling, you KNOW things are about to be turnt up a notch and that now it’s a party.

6. The alter egos come out to play.

For some of us, the people we are in our sober, day-to-day lives are definitely not whom we are when we’re under the influence and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. One of my best friends pops, locks and drops it down low when she’s had a few drinks in her and that’s only with a full stomach from dinner if you know what I mean.

7. Promising not to text (or sext) our ex's.

It’s definitely the alcohol talking when our friends make proclamations that they’ve “sworn off boys” or that we’re “finally done with him”.

8. Pizza, chicken fingers and instant Ramen.

Just this past weekend, I probably had a total of 8 slices of pizza and a few dozen garlic knots over a span of three days.

9. To sleep or not to sleep.

We either stay up until the sun rises watching television with our friends or we fall asleep with our makeup on and waking up with serious raccoon eyes.

10. The recap.

Recapping the previous night's adventures and mishaps are all part of the package deal that comes out with drinking and spending the night at whosever frat house the night before.