College: Part 1

From what I remember it was around 2:30am and I was stumbling through the corridors of Dominican Hall; fresh from an all night pub crawl in downtown New Haven. There was blood on my pants, holes ripped in my knees and an ever suspicious feeling that the room was getting ready to spin, just another Tuesday night at Albertus Magnus College.
      I was a senior then and getting ready to graduate, but lets go back to where it all began, freshman year.... it was the summer of 2005 and i had just graduated high school, now it was on to bigger and better things, or was it? "Fuck me" i thought to myself, i have to go to college. You see, the mentality i had in those days was "if you want a good job you need to go to college," i sure ad hell knew i did not want to work construction like my old man for the rest of my life so college seemed like the obvious choice.
      The college application process is something unlike anything a young 17/18 year old has ever gone through, you can expect to go through and experience any one of the fallowing:

• Endless meetings with "guidance counselors"
• A multitude of stupid tests like SAT and PSAT
• Getting your hopes up big time
• Having your dreams crushed with the opening of a single letter
• Getting teachers to write recommendations like its a goddamn job
• Losing about 3 years of your life due to stress

So once you narrow down your choices its time to start applying, now if you were like me and did fairly shitty in high school it can be a bit of a problem for a school to pick you because as far as those bastards are concerned its all about grades. So after rejection letter after rejection letter wouldn't you know it, i finally got accepted! After all hope was just about lost and that carpenters tool belt was just within arms reach, good old Albertus Magnus College accepted me. All right! I got accept.....wait, what the fuck is Albertus Magnus College? That was my thought when i discovered the small liberal arts school on the internet while searching for state schools in CT. There was nothing that really stuck out about it when i was checking it out, and i was just about ready to move on when i saw a little statistic showing that they had an 80% acceptance rate, 80 FUCKING PERCENT ACCEPTANCE RATE! Hell if i couldn't get into this school i might as well just walk into oncoming traffic. Well thank god for Albertus because no other school took me, they all said "your SAT math scores were too low," well excuse me if i never paid attention in math because it is FUCKING BORING! So anywho, the summer of 2005 was ending, and i was shipping off to New Haven, off to college.

      Now if your like me and the majority of college freshman, this was your first time really away from home; i remember being nervous as hell hoping i had cool roomates, hoping to get laid, having all the hopes and dreams any 18 year old who has seen animal house one to many times. Now the one thing that really takes kids off guard when they come to college is the amount if independence you have, especially if you come from the oppressive, touch yourself and go to hell catholic school upbringing; in fact it is the oppressed catholic girls who become the biggest party animals once they get to college, and its all because there is no one telling you what to do, it truly is fucking magical.
      The next thing you find out REAL FAST is that your professors do not give a fuck if you come to class or not. Now this can be a slight problem if you unknowingly sign up for classes that start at 8 in the morning like my dumbass did (in fact it got so bad that my prof sent me an email telling me i had missed more than half the classes and would be forced to fail me if i did not start coming to class. I was actually very luck as most professors will not be so nice, they'll just flunk your ass).
      We will end this chapter with an intro for the next one, DRINKING. Drinking is probably the most important social role a college student will take on, its how To meet new friends, how you break the ice at party's and how you build up the courage to talk to the hot chicks. So stay tuned and check out part 2 for alcohol and how it effects the entire institution of college.....