College Binge Drinking
David
12-11-13
Cause and Effect
College Binge
The cause of college binge drinking is the sense of freedom, easily obtainable, and there is peer pressure. Binge drinking is apparent at every state and private college across the USA. Students feel a sense of freedom going to a dorm college. Alcohol is easily obtained, even with people trying to stop it. Peer pressure is probably the main reason for binging. The transition between high school and college is an unreal experience for many. For a young student your entire life you need to follow all of these rules. You have to do what you’re told to do. Growing up you’re used to one type of life, and that is in your home life. All through kindergarten and high school, you are brought up to be like drones, or that is what it seems like to be. You are told to do this, do that without any question All this tension brews inside the student that can make them crazy sometimes. Some students handle it better than others. When that day comes, the day to ship off to college, you gain this sense of pride, nervousness, content, but most of all you gain freedom. Freedom is power which allows you to do what ever you want to do without any guardian of yours to talk into your ear telling you what to do. Being young and reckless, students go out and fulfill their need to party and that includes binge drinking to a whole new level. A second cause of college binge drinking is the ability to obtain alcohol with such ease. At college, everyday there is a college party nearby that will have alcohol ready to be consumed. At these parties there is beer, liquor, rum; anything you can think of is there. If you befriend older students that are twenty-one years of age, getting alcohol is easy to get. Or if you know somebody, even though its illegal you can purchase a fake ID so you can purchase alcohol yourself. A fake ID costs only about $100.00, which isn’t that much for a college student trying to have a good time.
12-11-13
Cause and Effect
College Binge
The cause of college binge drinking is the sense of freedom, easily obtainable, and there is peer pressure. Binge drinking is apparent at every state and private college across the USA. Students feel a sense of freedom going to a dorm college. Alcohol is easily obtained, even with people trying to stop it. Peer pressure is probably the main reason for binging. The transition between high school and college is an unreal experience for many. For a young student your entire life you need to follow all of these rules. You have to do what you’re told to do. Growing up you’re used to one type of life, and that is in your home life. All through kindergarten and high school, you are brought up to be like drones, or that is what it seems like to be. You are told to do this, do that without any question All this tension brews inside the student that can make them crazy sometimes. Some students handle it better than others. When that day comes, the day to ship off to college, you gain this sense of pride, nervousness, content, but most of all you gain freedom. Freedom is power which allows you to do what ever you want to do without any guardian of yours to talk into your ear telling you what to do. Being young and reckless, students go out and fulfill their need to party and that includes binge drinking to a whole new level. A second cause of college binge drinking is the ability to obtain alcohol with such ease. At college, everyday there is a college party nearby that will have alcohol ready to be consumed. At these parties there is beer, liquor, rum; anything you can think of is there. If you befriend older students that are twenty-one years of age, getting alcohol is easy to get. Or if you know somebody, even though its illegal you can purchase a fake ID so you can purchase alcohol yourself. A fake ID costs only about $100.00, which isn’t that much for a college student trying to have a good time.