By: Melissa Howard (University of Delaware)
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One perk of being a senior is that you’re 21 (most people, at least). FINALLY you can get into the more strict bars without worrying whether your fake ID will get taken. Now, partying is not just restricted to Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. At my school each night has a different bar that the entire senior class flocks too. It’s great going out on a Tuesday night, seeing everyone you have ever met in college (and your life sometimes, too) and behaving as if it is Friday, right? Well, yes and no.
Yes – Mondays are the hardest day of the week. Waking up early for class after spending two days sleeping in is miserable, especially when class starts at 9:05. College kids think to themselves, “How can the weekend be so far away?” Well, when the weekend starts on Tuesday night (the most fun night of the week at Delaware!!) getting through early Monday classes does not seem so bad.
No – Tuesdays are super fun. Who doesn’t like getting half-price nachos and $5 pitchers of beer during happy hour, then going to get drinks at 10, listening to the campus’s local celebrity musician? All of this would be enough, but then its time to head over to Karaoke night at the Irish pub. Not only will does the pub have half-price Long Island Ice Teas, but you get to watch your friends, frienemies and people you just do not like make fools of themselves singing bad karaoke. It’s a great time, until you wake up at 9:00 am on Wednesday morning hung over for a 10:20 class. This is when regrets about last night’s drinking decisions set in.
So, what is the right call here? On Monday morning, waiting till the weekend to enjoy college life is an impossible thing to imagine. However, no one likes leaving class to vom in the bathroom due to a killer hangover (what will the professor think?). Its a tough call and it all depends on the person and the situation. For me, I am a month into my senior year and its flying by all too quickly. I want to enjoy it before I have to enter the real world. A hangover on the job is a lot worst than a hangover in class.
