Alcohol in college

Subin Lee


How does alcohol affect life in college? First of all, most freshman college students are not even twenty-one years old, which is the legal age for purchasing and drinking alcohol. Nevertheless, most freshman college students probably already have experience with alcohol, and imbibe alcohol during their freshman year. There are a variety of students among the college freshmen: nerdy studious students or ‘party party’ students. Yet the majority of the students experiment with alcohol.


As many say, college is where people experience all kinds of things. Among those experiences, alcohol is one of the most influential experiences that college freshmen go through. It isn’t just that drinking during first year in college is illegal, but also the after effects of drinking.Drinking itself in general affects the brain dramatically.



Drinking too much is a brain cell killer. Since college students need to go to class during the weekdays, most partying students heavily rely on their weekend with binge drinking. Binge drinking is proved to be a lot unhealthier than daily casual drinking. Many freshmen in college get literally trashed in frat parties, and have their memory of that night erased completely.

Each weekend significantly determines students’ health condition for the rest of the week. One heavy binge drinking party can pretty much annihilate one’s health for the rest of the week. This then critically affects the student’s body/brain performance negatively, and prevents them from going to classes or study with a fresh mind.


Though alcohol could be a useful, important social skill, the amount taken should be limited, and controlled wisely.