Drinking
A realistic Guide to life at UCLan - written by students!
Comments from students...
“I’m not under the affluence of inkahol, although theeple pink I am!”
“Take me drunk, I’m home!”
Here a few students, free from the influence of the demon brew, recount their experiences of alcohol at UCLan. Victim number one can’t imagine life without it:
“Does anybody not drink? I was wondering how people who don’t drink alcohol go and bond, because when I first moved into my student house in my third year – I still found it daunting living with four people I didn’t know – and we went out and got pissed and stayed friends for the whole year. It helps.”
Or this one:
“I hate getting drunk, because I like having total control over myself. I do go out but it is hard sometimes when your friends get absolutely wasted. And you spend more money, because the soft drinks are dearer than the alcoholic ones. It doesn’t make much sense. I can understand how it must be quite hard for more mature students who don’t want to go out and get wasted, when all the emphasis is on going out and getting drunk. It’s great if you’re 18 and do want to go out and do that but for me, because I had a gap year, I got over all of that. So I came to uni actually wanting to do something and it was quite hard, because I didn’t want to go out and get absolutely wasted every single night.”
Of course, not drinking doesn’t mean you should spoil everyone else’s fun though. Live and let live, that’s what we say:
“I had a friend who didn’t drink at all. She used to be absolutely fine with us. She was just used to the fact that we’d get a bit tipsy and stuff.”
Drinking can be part of university life but it is not essential. You do not need to drink to have fun but no one is going to stop you! If you do chose to drink, keep it in moderation lectures can be tough with a hangover and don’t make noise on your way home others are trying to sleep!
