Your professor yet again makes the same remarks that many of your other professors have made in the past. It's always along the lines of "The classroom is empty today [it's a Friday] that's no surprise" or " I'm sure you would much rather be at a bar right now". Or we're learning about the agave plant, and we're supposed to know what's made out of it because we're oh so familiar with it--referring to tequila.

Being a college student who doesn't drink, it's rather tiring to hear these things. Other adults seem to assume that your drink just because your a college student. No I would not prefer to be at a bar right now. I am paying money to get an education to excel and earn a better future, and hope for a better tomorrow.

I guess I'm not your typical college student. I don't think drinking is fun. And if you're into drinking, that's your life. Who am I to judge? Shoot, just be safe. In writing this, I have no means in shaming the consumption of alcohol, because that's your choice. But as someone who doesn't drink, it sucks when you would like to do something, but you go to a college famed for it's parties and drinking. It sucks when other people put these preconceived labels on you before getting to know you. It sucks when people tell you, "I would ask you if you want to go out, but you don't drink so...". There's this supposed college student mold, and when you don't fit into it, it makes you feel crappy. You are seen as less, lame, or even boring--this sucks! Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out of college or my youth, but drinking isn't necessary in my life--and that's it. Being one of the selected few in college who doesn't drink is hard. Not because of peer pressure or anything, but because it's hard to find people who share your morals or people you simply click with, because it seems that many people's idea of fun is going out to drink at a bar. I mean, that's cool, but man, the world has so much more to offer.

Drinking is a choice. And my choice is to not do it. I get told that I'll change my mind later. Maybe I will--but I highly doubt it. I'm just not into it, and that's okay! No, nothing has happened. I just am not interested! I'm pretty sure lots of people who drink feel that when others say that they don't drink, that those people think of themselves as better, stuck up, or even saints. But I'm not. I'm just a human being who chooses not to drink a certain liquid--that's all there is to it. Tacos for life!