Everyone does stupid stuff in college on a regular basis, nothing people do will surprise you any more. You become immune to college life. However, looking back on this past semester I wonder how the hell did I make it out alive? Here is a list of the top 5 dumbest things that I have seen people do, or have partaken in this past semester.
1) Drive for Five
This is a tradition that has been going on between my friends and I since freshman year and was the event that we did most recently. It’s the “drive for five” and it happens at the end of every semester. Each semester, Hofstra University students get two snow/“study” days off right before finals week begins, giving us a five-day weekend. Honestly, it might as well just be called “get fudgeed up” days, because that’s what everyone does. My friends call it the “Drive for Five”. For five days, they drink and get totally trashed, wake up at 4:30 in the afternoon, when it’s already dark outside and then do it all over again. The goal is to not see daylight for five days straight.
2) Truth or Dare Night
As they say, there really is an app. for everything. After eight long hours of studying in the library for astronomy, all I wanted to do was go to bed. Apparently, I was the only one who actually had studying to do that night, because when I go back to my dorm, I found my roommates and friends trashed without clothes on. Yes, you may be asking yourself, what does an iPhone application have anything to do with this? Well, for $1.99 you can buy the sexual truth or dare application on your phone. I have never played the game myself, but after walking in on my roommate giving my neighbor a naked lap dance, I figure anyone with a bottle of Torched Cherry, Bacardi Rum and an iPhone can play this game that picks what truths or dares someone has to do.
3) Banged and Bruised
My one neighbor from down the hall is the queen of getting banged, bruised or cut, especially after a night of drinking. Mostly, I am not surprised to see her looking like a hot mess after going out; However, when she came back the other night with pine needles in her hair, two rips in her jeans, a swollen hand, and cuts and bruises all over her body, I was slightly concerned. Everyone knows that almost all college campuses are placed in the sketchiest parts of town and no one should walk back from the bar alone by themselves. Ironically enough, my friend didn’t seem to care. Apparently, as she made her way back to our dorm she fell flat on her face, while crossing the street. I guess she looked so bad that someone stopped their car and tried to escort her back to campus.
4) Keg in the Closet
One thing that everyone on the floor prides themselves on doing this past semester was the feat of getting an entire full keg into one of our dorm rooms. Now doing this is a much more difficult task then one might think. It involves getting past the RA’s without either getting caught or looking suspicious. To do this my friends bought the keg, broke their room window so that it would open all of the way and then slid it through the window. This all had to happen in three minutes before the RA, or public safety came by. Once the keg was successfully sneaked into the room, it was hidden in a garbage can and was pushed into the closet. In fact, the keg was such a hit that at one point 30 people came into the tiny dorm room after $5 dollars admission. The only reason the people who hosted the party did get in trouble a week later was become someone uploaded pictures on Facebook.
5) Nerf Gun Wars
Yes, it’s the toy that everyone played with when they were in elementary school. Honestly, up until this past semester, I hadn’t played with a Nerf gun in over 12 years. As childish this may sound, my dorm had an all-out Nerf gun war: first floor kids vs. second floor kids. We set rules and boundaries and barriers up throughout the halls of the dorm and even kept score. Regardless of how immature this may sound, it was one epic night.
Let this list be an inspiration for you in the upcoming spring semester. May your college experience be full of crazy stories, as well.
