Sunday Fun Day, Margarita Monday, Two-for Tuesday, Wasted Wednesdays, Thirsty Thursdays, Beat the Clock, every night of the week is a party. Unless you have a job.
Post-secondary education is now accessible to people who weren’t blessed with “good breeding,” meaning most of us who attend school nowadays do so sans trust fund. But the privilege of going to school comes with a price…a hefty one at that. In order to pay for said price, some of us work in addition to attending school. But where does that leave us? How can we have a full college experience when free time is spent paying for the time in the classroom?
When you have a job in college, it takes up so much of your life. You wake up, go to class, go to work, come home and your friends want you to go out with them, but all you want to do is stay home to save money. You quickly learn that calling it a night at 11 p.m. is not only perfectly acceptable but entirely necessary. If you want to be able to pass your micro-bio exam in the morning, as well as be able to pay for its lab fees, staying in is essential. Your friends may not understand your need and desire to go to bed at the same time your grandmother does, but they also don’t know what a bill looks like either.
Of course, it’s possible that you’re an over-achiever and want to have your grades and job and party too. If that’s the case, you’re going to have to accept the fact that you will be spending money. Having a job makes you evaluate the value of a dollar and equate it to the value of decent alcohol. If going a couple rounds at your favorite downtown bar is worth the eight hours of work you will inevitably have to endure to make up for it, then by all means, have at it! If not, you may want to limit your binge drinking to once a week. Going out on the weekends is one thing, but when you start to become so much of a regular that all the bartenders at The Top recognize you and your unconventional drink order, it’s time to reevaluate your lifestyle. Or at least party somewhere else.
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If you’re planning to have a job in college or already have one, keep in mind that may mean having to sacrifice, and most of the time that sacrifice will be your social life. But just because you don’t go out every weekend doesn’t mean you can’t have a full and rewarding college experience. Actually, sacrificing partying can be the best thing for you, because it forces you to be a little more creative with your use of what little time you have.
Time is precious. Find a way to balance all that you have to do, and if you do find a method that works, share it with others so we can all bask in the balanced lifestyle.
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