Expectation vs. Reality

Do you guys remember when you were a senior in highschool prepping yourself for college and couldn’t stop thinking about how wild or how much partying there would be in college? Yep. Me too.

The first thing that came to mind when I thought about the word “college” was just partying with a whole bunch of friends, feeling amaaaazing, and overall just having a good time. However, that all slightly changed when I experienced my first actual frat party.

So I remember it being sylly week and my friends and I all decided to go out. We had a few addresses of where the parties were and we basically just said we would party hop just to get a feel for the different types of parties and different frats that were out there.

You know us girls take about a year and a half to decide what we want to wear and what type of hairstyle we want to do for the night.  We spent about an hour on our makeup and another on just either curling our hair or straightening it, which we quickly learned afterwards that all our hard work would go right out the window.

We finally were ready & headed over to one of the addresses. We made our way down to the basement of this really crappy house. I kid you not as soon as you start making your way down you just get this huge heat wave from the party.  We got down there and it REAKED of cheap natty and smelly body odor– obviously not what we were expecting at all. The one thing you cannot miss is just how drenched everyone is. Not only is everyone covered in their own sweat, but the sweat of 100 other people who have rubbed up against them. (This is one of the biggest downsides to frat basement parties)

Whatever, we try to ignore the sweat dripping down everyone and even on the walls and we begin to walk around to see what’s around. It’s a party so obviously there are people dancing everywhere, some better than others… Listen, I know not everyone has the capability of being a great dancer, but seriously some of the moves these girls were doing were actually making me really uncomfortable and I just needed to get away from them ASAP. My friends all felt the exact same way so we left and headed out to another party.

The next party was NOTHING like the first one. It was a “nage”. Basically it’s just a party outside in someone’s backyard. No one was drenched in sweat and I could actually breathe without inhaling everyone’s BO. The music was really good and there weren’t girls dancing awkwardly.

After experiencing my first college frat party and after party hopping a few times I quickly learned that these houses are absolutely disgusting and it can get really gross really quickly, so just prepare yourself for that. If you can avoid basement parties please do so at all costs. I 100% guarantee you will have a great time in a nage.

However, even if you aren’t able to make it to a nage and if you’re with the right people, you will have an enjoyable night. It does get gross at times and you might think to yourself why the heck am I here, but spending time with your friends and meeting new people is always a good time and some of the best memories come from nights like those so just don’t get freaked out. Eventually you will get used to it and see that it’s not that bad.