Yesterday we were SO ready to go out, we were looking forward to it all day. We went to the Corner Room for dinner which is a very popular restaurant here at Penn State and then went to Jill and Lauren’s place to pregame. Every spring semester here, PSU has a concert on the last day of classes called Movin’ On. We didn’t wanna get completely and totally black out drunk for this because it’s just a free concert outside, near Beaver stadium that has a bunch of popular and not-so-popular bands/singers/rappers. Ludacris came this year and another band that ended that everyone was excited to hear but I’ve never heard of them before. We got there half way in between Luda’s act. It was fun but it was sooo cold so we had to squeeze in the crowd for body heat. We ran into Lauren’s brother who was clearly so drunk. He was sloppy bumping around and picking up Lauren and accidentally ran into the girl. Nothing serious, just bumped into her. Her boyfriend, however, took it serious and screamed at him and Lauren’s now amped up brother kept saying he wanted to “f*ck him up.” All of us were trying to convince him not to but when an angry drunk guy is determined, they won’t listen. Lauren wanted to get him out of there so I said I’d go with her..so me, Lauren, her brother and his friend left the crowd and Emma and Jill ended up coming out with us too. The friend knew he was being crazy so he said he’d take care of it and left with him and Lauren started to cry. She said it wasn’t even because of what just happened but because her brother was dating the girl here at PSU that died in a car accident. She said he hasn’t been the same since and it breaks her heart seeing him like that. I felt so bad and said I’d leave with her but she was looking forward to the last band so she stayed. I ended up running into my guy friends so we all hung out. I was freezing my ass off so I HAD to leave and the boys were leaving too so I went back to their place to start drinking and they all stayed there. I knew Emma and Jill really weren’t too in to staying but they stayed a little longer than me… I just said to text me when you’re back so I can go hang out with them again. Of course, as usual, all the boys are force feeding me shots so I took a couple there and then had to head back over to where everyone else was. Emma and Jill were laying in bed and Peter was there too but Peter and I always are down to party so we brought shots in the room and gave them shots in bed. I don’t even know how many I took but I do remember some of the boys coming over to pregame more. Then it’s blurry then I remember laying across Peter and this guy Dave in the back seat trying to hide from the cab driver so he would let a bunch of us in one cab. Then it goes completely black until we leave. I heard that I was dancing with my eyes closed like I was sleep dancing, I heard that I was sitting on the couch looking like I was about to pass out, I heard I was really loud yelling I AM THE BAR TENDER, and a lot of people telling me I was SOooOOo drunk. OKAY PEOPLE, SORRY FOR PARTYING! However, I heard I wasn’t embarrassing, just loving life, saying ridiculous things (that apparently were funny) which I tend to do when I’m wasted. I say the most absurd things but I’m happy (with the exception of my beer tears the other night). I did sober up I guess because I remember talking to this guy on the team that’s from Fiji. He’s adorable, he has a fro and has the world’s longest name I’ve ever seen in my life and I’ve made it sort of a habit at parties to pronounce his last name. That’s literally all I remember from the party and then leaving… Hmm WHELP, sounds like I had fun??

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This is something that I had been praying would never happen and it did…

Let me start from the beginning of the night, though. We started the night pregaming at Lauren and Jill’s. We figured we’d just group together and figure out what to do because rugby had a formal with soccer and we didn’t want to crash that and it be extremely awkward. All the boys were telling us to go but still, it’s a social and a bunch of NARPs (non-athletic regular person) rolling up might not be the best idea. However, halfway through the pregame, Jill’s boyfriend (who is on the rugby team) said that the soccer girls were pretty much all leaving so we could go. We finished drinking and headed over. There was maybe 2 soccer girls still there by the time we got there, but they were on their way out so it didn’t even matter. We went upstairs and I found a handle of vodka so Peter made me a mixed drink that was SO strong, probably half vodka, half lemonade and I KNEW I was on my way to black out city. We did venture downstairs and I played pong and absolutely sucked, don’t think I made one cup. It’s sooo blurry, I really don’t even know what I was doing but my memory comes back in when it was like 5 of us dancing together. Then, Lauren and John start grinding with each other and I’m like okay this isn’t good but it’s just dancing, whatever. THEN, they start making out and I lose it. I always feared this – I’ve talked about it before in my blog posts. If he gets with other people that are random, I don’t mind as much but the fact that it was my good friend right in my front of my face, I couldn’t deal. I went upstairs and walked out and started crying like a freaking loser. Brittany came out with me and was talking to me about it and trying to calm me down. My emotions were so intensified because I was drunk. I hardly ever get sad when I drink, but I guess when something bad happens, it’ll spark it. I’m usually just happen to begin with so that’s probably why I’m always EXTRA happy when I drink. Alcohol will strengthen any feeling you’re feeling. We left and I kept alone, away from everyone else who was walking and Alex kept calling me to come with her because apparently I was going the complete wrong way. Me, Brittany, Alex, and freaking unfortunately John’s roommate all walked back together. Brittany was asking his roommate about the situation but it’s the last thing I wanted. I probably said some embarrassing stuff so I’m absolutely dreading seeing him ever again. It’s probably better this happened so I got closure and can get over him quicker but it still SUCKS.

Lauren and I talked about it the next day and she felt horrible and said she had no idea. I wasn’t mad at her for that sole reason, I didn’t tell ANYONE because I didn’t want to be vulnerable. The shitty thing is, though, that she said she used to hook up with him in the beginning of the year and really liked him then and then it kind of fizzled out and then recently she’s been into him. I had a feeling she liked him since she always gravitated towards him at parties but the fact she confirmed it, sucksss. BOYS SUCK.

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So I have some great news that I’m so happy to share — I’m sure you ALL care…right?! right?! (I’m a little concerned my sarcasm but not show through via blog post hm). HOWEVER, my friend said that I should try to take alcohol classes in place of my underage. I’m not sure if they’re called yop or yap but it’s youth something program. You just pay for the class and take it- 4 hour sessions 4 times. It sounds bad but I heard it’s really interesting and it’s way better than getting an underage! I called the district court and the judge said I qualified!!! He even mailed my papers over to where I’m from so I can just take them at home. SO I didn’t even have to mail in my plea, I won’t have to court and it won’t be on my record. If my friend didn’t tell me about it, I would have never known and just gotten an underage so do that if you get in trouble!!! The class is probably like 200 dollars which sucks but a 500 dollar fine for an underage is way worse. I’m ecstatic!!

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Drinking games are a magical thing that everyone should partake in. I wanted to mention some of the more popular ones that my group of friends and I partake in. Some are popular in general and some we just made up. Enjoy…

Flip Cup: If you don’t know what flip cup is, I am shocked BUT I’m here for you. There is two teams, each on one side of the table. You matched up with someone across from you so that you know the two teams are even. Fill up your cup a little with beer and the first person on each team starts. You start by pressing your cup on the table, cheering the other person’s cup, touch table, chug (down, up, down, drink). After they chugged their beer, they put their cup (open side up) on the table and flip it until the open top is flipped onto the table. Then, the next person goes and it goes down the line until the last person finishes.

Beer pong: another extremely popular one that can be seen at pretty much every college party. Two teams of two of each side of the table (far ends). You set up 6 cups into a diamond, all touching, either full of beer or if you want to be sanitary fill it up with water and just drink from your own personal cup. You shoot with a pong ball and if you get it into one of the other team’s cup, they have to drink and take away that cup. Each partner goes once and then it’s the other teams turn. First team to get it in all 6 cups wins. There are a bunch of little rules that differ from who you’re playing with so set some ground rules before you play.

Black Betty drinking game: Not sure if we made this up or it’s none but it can be applied to a variety of songs. Black Betty by Ram Jam is our favorite though. Everyone has a full beer and is in a circle. One person starts drinking when they first say “Black Betty” and don’t stop until the next time they say it again. Then, the person next to them starts and the pattern goes on and on throughout the whole song.

Boyfriend drinking game: Okay, I know we made this up. Listen to “Boyfriend” by Justin Bieber and every time he says “Boyfriend” take a shot of beer.

Power hour: Take a shot of beer every minute for an hour. There are power hour songs on youtube that are an hour long and every time a minute is up, the song changes. You can always just have a timer, though. That way is a lot less fun though.

Chandelier: Place a center cup, filled up to the top with beer. Every person playing has a cup that they put around the center cup, in a circle, so they’re all touching. The individual players’ cups are only filled a little bit with beer. One person bounces a pong ball, if it goes into your cup, you drink. If it goes into the center cup, every chugs their beer and break off into a game of flip cup. The last person to flip has to chug the center couple.

Mexican hat dance: You must be sitting at a table. There’s two shot glasses, starting at the opposite ends of the circle. You have to bounce a quarter into the shot glass and then you can pass it off to the person next to you. The goal of the game is to get the quarter in before the next person can get there’s in. So whoever you’d pass to normally needs to not get it in before you do to get them out and then they drink. If you get the quarter in the first time, you get to decide where to put the shot glass. This is where you can most likely get people out because you put it behind the other person with the shot glass.

Kings: This is a card game where there is a rule for every card. Here are the rules: http://www.drinkinggames.com/game.php/34/Kings+Cup

Hope you can use some of these games to liven up your future parties! Enjoy!

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We were not ready to say goodbye to the weekend so we decided we wanted to drink again Sunday night. One of the rugby houses also was down to drink so we went there. We pregamed at one of the rugby apartments first, though, and took like 4 shots each- nothing severe. However, when we got to the house we immediately got the beer bong and went to town. It was like you were called out to bong and if you said no…well, you couldn’t say no. Needless to say we were all getting pretty fucked up, pretty fast. It was the perfect amount of people. More than a “gathering” but less than a party. Perfect for Sunday Funday. After we realized we’d all pass out if we continued beer bonging at the rate we were going, we decided to just get a cup of beer and drink it normally instead of chugging. I played pong against Peter and Emma with one of the kids David on the rugby team for a while which was fun but of COURSE my friends and I just want to dance. That’s all we ever want to do. I shit you not I think we danced, and danced hard, for a good 2 hours straight. John was there but I paid no attention to him because, quite frankly, he doesn’t deserve it heheh and I was actually having too much fun with my friends I wasn’t even concerned what he was doing. I didn’t even care where he was, who he was with, etc. at all. The only time I really saw him was when him and his roommates were leaving and his one roommate was trying to get me and Alex to leave with them because we usually always go home with them since we live so close BUT Alex and I wanted to stay longer so BUH BYE! I mean after seeing him for that split second, I kind of did want to go home with them but when he left I was glad we stayed. The dancing continued and I got to have a good time, not worrying about him at all. It’s a little progress for getting over him. -_-

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Most people would stop drinking for a while after getting an underage. Well, I am not most people. Saturday night is when rugby has their big parties and there was NO way I was going to let a stupid underage stop me. Plus, I didn’t really get the underage from drinking. I got it from being a dummy and peeing in public and therefore bringing attention to the fact that I clearly had been drinking. People don’t really get underages at Penn State, only if you do something dumb like that will you. Also, what’s done is done so there was no point moping over it all night while my friends were out having fun. We pregamed at Nittany (where John lives) and all took the bus to the party. There’s this guy at Penn State who’s known for carrying around a boom box and playing music (Hence his name Boombox kid) and he was on the bus so even just riding it was fun. Everyone was singing along and dancing and having fun. Great start to the night. We get to the party and it was pretty packed but there’s no music. The guys are asking if anyone’s sober to drive a car to get the speakers from the other house. We were like uuhh are you serious do you really think we’re sober? haha..but they did miraculously find someone so EVENTUALLY music was playing. There was jungle juice and one of the guys strolling around with a handle of bacardi which he let us take sips out of. The jungle juice was wayyyy too sweet so I moved on to beer. The night was so eventful actually. So much sh*t went on it’s like blurred together. BUT I know that they did their rugby chants which is when one of them stands on the keg or whatever and leads it- my fav aka not really is when they chant the rugby days of the week. Let me give you a little sample “Saturday’s a rugby day, Tuesday’s a fingering day, Wednesday’s a f*cking day”…. yeah they’re gross but they all get into it so much so whatever. Then, I look over and see this dumb girl walk up to John like all over him I was like whatever I’m not even dealing with this. THEN I look over and they’re like grinding/making out against the wall. I was so grossed out. I’m sure he was really drunk but EW. Over it! Or telling myself I need to get over it at least. The one guy I walked to the rugby game with wasted after the daylong kept talking to me, though. We reminisced over our romantic little walk and then started this huge thing and he kept saying how he fell in love with me during the walk and I was like well too bad you’re a slut. That sounds dumb as sh*t as I write it out but it was funny because he was fake (I hope) professing him love for me and I was like OP it’s a shame you’re a slore. And he was going around like asking everyone if they think he’s a whore. Looking back at it everyone must have thought he was f*cking insane.. I was with him the whole night pretty much and I could see John looking over at us a lot he he heee das watch chu get. And speaking of, me and the kid separated for a little somehow and then suddenly him and John are like 2 feet away from me and talking. And I might be mistaken but I’m almost positive the guy (Matt by the way) was asking John if it was cool that he was talking to me so much. It was one of those moments you try SO hard to listen but you simply just can’t listen. I wish I knew. I was giving John the cold shoulder though because he’s nasty and got with that girl. Yuck. Anyway, Matt and I reconvened and were dancing (like joking dancing not grinding) like we Found Love was playing and he was like NOT EVEN HOPELESS PLACE it was a normal place and I fell in love with you hahahah..THEN it was literally just our group of friends and this group of ghetto people. There’s this one little black (I’m not racist just describing) that randomly comes to the parties and has this neon flashing light ball thing on a string that he swings around. She’s like the entertainment hahah but her and her “crew” were there and I was having fun with it. There was a guy chillin and if you’ve ever heard of seen Ellen’s dance dares- I did that. It’s when you dance behind someone’s back and they have no clue that you’re doing it. It’s so hilarious I recommend you try it. Matt was dying laughing saying he couldn’t believe I was doing it. And John was there too looking all salty but HEY b*tch I was having SO much fun and you’re just standing there all gross (hahaha what the HELL am I saying right now)- anyway, Brittany was telling me he looks so grossed out when he was making out with her too SO double HA your life sucks. I don’t see why you need to get with someone else if I’m there and you know you can easily hook up with me. STOOPID. Anyways, we all continued dancing and I stopped my literally dance dare thing and then the music just dead ass stopped so we were all standing there. I talked to John then for a little while and we were joking- I was saying John who said you could invite all your friends? aka all the ghetto people and then they started free styling and I was like jump in jump inn and he was laughing and everything UGH like me already hahha syke. BUT we realized it was 4:30 and that we should probably go and not even worry about fixing the music. I mean I had fun that night regardless of grossie josie John. I really need to stop hooking up with him because I just look SO dumb now. Wahhh

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Unfortunately, as my title entails, yesterday was not the best day for me. It’s Blue and White weekend here at Penn State so EVERYONE was out tailgating. It’s when the Penn State football team plays each other for fun, the game is free but like no one actually goes in. There’s rides and food and errthang so it’s a very good time. We were SO excited for this all week and the day finally came. Emma’s sister graduated 2 years ago but they still have their annual tailgate so we got there around 11am. I literally thought I was in heaven with all the good food there. Tailgating food is THE best. We started out with champagne that was meant for mimosas but the OJ was MIA so we just had it alone. Then, someone made gummie rummies which is gummy bears soaked in rum – they were DELICIOUS, you could hardly taste the alcohol at all. We had to be careful though because these tailgates are notorious for being swarmed by cops and they even go so low as to go undercover and pretend to be drinking with you and then make everyone take out their IDs. So we were being extremely careful, at the beginning at least. We were drinking beer but thought it’d be “smarter” to take shots so we wouldn’t have a cup in our hand. We kept taking shots and shots and eventually Jill (forget what I changed her name to so Jill is one of my good friends) had to go to bathroom and I knew could definitely go so I went with her to the porter potties. We were waiting in line and she was getting restless and just wanted to go in between cars. I said that was stupid but she went to go check if there was anyone there and she said the coast was clear and we were fine. So I kept watch while she went and then I went and as we’re walking away I hear “HEY, COME HERE. MISS. COME HERE” and asks for my information, breathalizes me, and fills out my citation. I know how to cheat a breathalizer due to my dad constantly breathalizing in my in high school after my first underage so I only blew a .07 (thanks dad) but still that’s over the legal limit for someone under 21. UGH. My life sucks I have the worst luck. There were 2 cops and the one was SUCHHHH a dick (the one filling out the citation) and the other one was trying to like make me feel better saying business people (my major) all drink underage and certain presidents got DUIs and got caught for coke and all this sh*t I was like what the eff?! If It’s not so bad then take back my citation ?! I mean it really isn’t that big of a deal other than the fine and the community service…that’s just a pain. I went back to the tailgate and Jill felt SOOO bad she said she’d pay half and everything. I would never in a million years make her pay and I feel bad that she feels bad. I mean if I was her I’d feel so bad too but I did it so it’s all my fault. Not hers. It’ll work out in the end…I laugh about my underage now it just sucks. I was stupid and lesson learned I suppose.

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ps. you cheat a breathalizer by only blowing half way. You have to blow enough for it to detect your bac somewhat though. Do not blow full force or you’re EFFED

As I’ve mentioned many, many times, it’s daylong season which means every single Thursday and Friday at least one frat is having one. I was really debating if I should go to the one yesterday or not. I have class until 2:15 and I really wanted/needed to go to the gym. My one friend Emma was texting me about it and we both couldn’t decided. Then Alex texted me and asked if I had alcohol and since I didn’t she said “you’re no good to me” she’s obviously joking but she’s half serious. There’s something about Alex that is just very selfish and she just does whatever works out for her. If I had alcohol she would be up my ass about hanging out with me but since I didn’t, she could care less and doesn’t even text me about the daylong again. She’s not really a good friend at all in that department. I said I wanted to go to this one class at the gym at 2:45 and she said they’d probably go around then but I really wanted to work out and wasn’t too concerned about the daylong so I just went to the gym. I got out an hour later from a text from Emma saying to come daylong. Literally 1 minute after I went into the class I must have gotten the text because the time was 2:46. I asked her if I should still come and she obviously said yes but under the circumstances I wasn’t really feeling it. They all pregamed and were on their way so I just casually took a shower and started doing homework. Lauren called me and was like Where are you?! I said in my room but that I didn’t pregame or anything so it’d be stupid. She was like just come and you can shot gun beers real quick. SO just like that I got changed and went to the daylong. They literally were feeding me beers. I must have shot gunned 4 beers within the first 10 minutes I was there. Then, they made me chug and whatnot. Needless to say I was hammered. It was almost stupid though because everyone was so drunk for so long and I got drunk within 10 minutes and then we left 10 minutes later. We got food, of course -_- but Brittany and Alex had to go home because Alex was DONE. We all parted ways to regroup and then made a plan to set our alarms for 9 to rage again. Well 9 ended up being 10:30 but we did make it out! We took a couple shots at Emma’s with me, her, and this other girl Amanda who we kind of hang out with but she’s more of a person that like’s being one of the guys. Whatever, though, she’s the one that forced one of the rugby houses to have some people over. Since the boys are sadly in season (great to watch the games, not for party purposes though), only really the injured ones are hanging out…there game is freaking Saturday and they won’t drink Thursday. That makes no sense to me! However, some of the boys at this house that weren’t injured were “casually” drinking with us. First we played pong but wanted something that everyone could play so we played kings. Kings is a card game where each card has a different thing you have to do. (ex. six is chicks- girls drink, four is floor- everyone has to touch the floor and last person has to drink, etc.) It’s a very social game and a lot of fun. We basically just chilled and played that the whole night. After the daylong, a calm night isn’t so bad. It was only like 10 of us. The night ended pretty early but it was good because now I’m well rested and ready for the weekend woohooo!

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In college, you don’t have your mom or dad telling you what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. You’re all on your own. The freedom is an awesome part of college but it also means all the responsibility is on you. You have to do your own laundry, get your own food, buy anything you may need, get yourself up, etc. The biggest thing is you need to motivate yourself to go to class. A lot of people skip class because it’s SO easy to get away with. You won’t get in trouble by the school … actually they probably wouldn’t even notice depending on how large your class is (I just came from an 800 person class – ya think if I didn’t show up my professor would realize? No effing way). However, this is surefire way for you to get behind so you NEED to make sure you get your butt to class.

Another thing is the professors are NOT like your high school teachers. Your high school teachers would be breathing down your neck reminding you constantly to turn in an assignment. In college, most of the time the professors just give you a syllabus in the beginning of the semester and leave it to you to make sure you’re keeping up with the assignments, with little or no notice right before hand. That is why it is EXTREMELY important to stay organized. My biggest advice for that department is to get a planner. I don’t think I’d be able to survive college without mine. I write down every single assignment I need to accomplish, crossing it out when completed. I usually look at my syllabuses on Sunday and write out every thing I need to do for the week so I know what I have coming. Plus, if I have some free time I can get stuff done in advance.

With freedom comes responsibility. You’re becoming an adult now and you need to take care of yourself. Enjoy the freedom but ALSO take care of the responsibilities. It does take a little while to get use to but you get it down quick. It’s all a part of growing up, you can’t be babied forever. Don’t see this lack of control as a free for all. You still have obligations that need to be fulfilled. If you don’t, it’s no one’s fault but your own. It sucks but I think it pays off in the end. College really does mature you.

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Something people don’t realize when going into college is how much work you need to put into it. A lot of hype is of the parties and drinking and not so much on the all-nighters, hours in the library and crazy test schedules. However, if you are organized and can get things done..it’s not as bad as it’s cracked up to be. My second semester was hell. I had an exam once every single week so it felt like I was constantly studying. My main way to study back then was note cards. If you right everything down on note cards and quiz yourself until you get it right every time, you’re guaranteed to do well. Make sure you know the answers both ways..so if the answer is on one side and the question is on the other, go through with the questions on the front and then once you got that down, go with the answers facing front. That is if you want to be completely, totally, and 100% ready (unless you have an a-hole teacher that throws in random questions). Note cards are also good because they’re easy to take on the go. If you’re walking to class or waiting in line, you can just whip them out and go through a couple. When I did flash cards I would make the cards 3 nights ahead of time, memorize the first half 2 nights ahead of time and then the night before memorize the second chunk in addition to the first. Although it was hell, it paid off.

This year, though, I’ve taken a new approach to studying. I guess I lost my motivation from that second semester or maybe my summer was just TOO good that I couldn’t seem to snap out of it but I just COULD NOT get myself to study as nearly as much as I did. My exams were less frequent though. The semester before I’d have 3 exams and then a final and now last semester and this semester I’ve had 2 exams then a finals. So, my exams are A LOT less frequent – but that means more material on them. I prefer having less exams and more material, though, because that means less time studying in the long run. So, now, I just write out everything on notebook paper and that usually gets it in my brain if I’m paying attention as I write. Then, I read through it and highlight things I don’t remember. Then, I take those things and rewrite them on another piece of paper and continue the cycle as the list gets shorter and shorter. That’s a lot easier for me to handle since it’s not just looking at flash cards. Writing it out gives me something physically to do. Just make sure if you’re doing that, you’re not mindlessly writing it out because it’ll be a waste. That’s my new approach and it seems to be working. When you’re more social and actually get friends who influence you to do other things than work it’s tough and you gotta find ways to study in a shorter amount of time- hence my new strategy. Just MAKE SURE you study. Everything else will fall into place if you do well in school, it’s SO important.

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