Anyone else find the hardest part about College the drugs...

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It seems like me that the hardest problem I have adjusting to college is because of the drugs.

Alcohol and weed in particular.

It seems like 90-95% of the people who attend the colleges I go to do these things so sometimes I find it very hard to have conversations with people when all they talk is about the party they went too last night, or the party that they are going too two days from now.

I don't drink or do any kind of mind-altering drugs; which makes me an outcast in college.

That has not been a problem at my school.

Tim

I didn't do drugs in college, including alcohol and weed. Those two would have allowed me to socialize with some people who did. I've always been the outcast's outcast. Ah, well. More time to study.

I can definitely relate, and it's been hard for me to adjust to since I'm not a partier, and on top of that, I'm intolerant of those who are. I know I should just let it go, but it really does bother me. Maybe because it's so hard for me to relate to, but I just find it pathetic. Alcohol is really the only thing I hear about a lot - not drugs very much. Where do you go to school?

Most everyone I know at my school smokes weed. I did for a little while too, but then I started getting panic attacks from it so I stopped. I used to want to fit in like everyone else, but I just don't care about it anymore.

To be perfectly honest, I have never even seen an illegal drug, including weed. And I didn't notice any dramatic increase in drinking when I went off to college. Everyone knew I couldn't drink, they were just bummed I couldn't be the sober driver (Because I'm not allowed to drive due to epilepsy)

I was an undergrad in the late 80s/early 90s, so things may have changed. But the hardest part of being there was the numbing boredom of having someone read/paraphrase the textbook to me and call it a lecture. Sitting there in a room with 300 other people, listening to a monotone paraphrase the textbook for an hour and twenty minutes, twice a week. It didn't take too long to figure out which of those lectures I could ditch. Only needed to go home and read the book in a day, then go back and take the tests on test days. As they were all multiple-choice scantrons (due to the size of the classes), it was a pretty easy 3.5 GPA.

The second worst thing was having to sit in a smaller class where many of the other students were functionally illiterate. Not only could we not do any accelerated work, we spent a lot of time explaining ordinary vocabulary words to the folks who hadn't had proper preparation for the class. It wasted a lot of our time.

Third worst thing was having a TA teach sections - someone who was not a subject matter expert, but who had to get up there because that was how he obtained his financial aid and "in state" tuition status for his/her master's program.

Fourth worst thing would have been, I think, sitting in the class with the stoners/drunks. There appeared to have been plenty of them. Then again, I remember having a beer now and then before having to go sit through some of those lectures. Made it bearable.

I wish reading a book the day before and not going to lecture and getting a 3.5 GPA would work for me.

If I miss more than 2 lectures then I usually have trouble passing the exams.

dis booze has helped me yay

I'm doing a PhD and I've never been offered illegal drugs in my life, except once on the street which was probably a con. I've never touched or seen an illegal drug. i do know someone who smokes weed, but it's just the sort of thing people automatically assume i'm not into (people also tend to think in don't drink, which is not true)

Many people drink and/or do drugs, it doesn't mean that you have to.

Not "a" book the day before. "The" book. The textbook. You obviously went to a real school, with competent instructors who brought in outside material.

Mine was a bad joke. But it was a degree and for a year or two that mattered, in the job market.