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  • Mar 11
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Here′s to the Nights We Want to Remember...

 

By Heather Colvin, Former Campus Monkey Student Editor
9/8/08
…with the friends we’ll never forget.  
Let’s speak candidly – one party connoisseur to some others: school is a social environment.  I am sure we’ve all rolled our eyes when we have heard the professors and administrators at our respective schools discussing this new phenomenon of “binge drinking”.  Times have most certainly changed since they were in school and I think we are able to acknowledge that fact as mature young adults.
My apartment houses various kinds of alcohol, including vodka, wine and beer and I have shot glasses sitting next to the plates in my cupboard.  I often can be heard referring to soda as a “mixer” or “chaser” and when I go to football games I love a good tailgate.  So how, then, can I consider myself to be someone committed to a healthy and Balanced lifestyle?  That’s very simple.  
Even though Thursdays are referred to as “Thirsty Thursdays” in my neck of the woods, I still make sure to get enough sleep so I am awake and alert for my classes in the morning.  I know that I love Thursday nights out with my friends so when I drew up my schedule for this semester I made sure I did not have any classes before noon the following day.  That way even if I stay out until closing time, I can still get a good 8 hours of rest.  And if you have an unavoidable 8AM, as I’m sure some of you do – sorry Charlie but you need to be responsible enough to either stay in or leave early the night before.
I am a firm believer in proper nutrition.  No I am not that girl who cuts calories out of my daily meals so I can later take them in as alcohol calories.  A friend of my sister’s went to University of Colorado Bolder and managed to spend all his dinning dollars on alcohol – he ended up being so malnourished he got Scurvy – sorry but I’m no pirate.  I make sure to get proper meals and never go out on an empty stomach.  Even if it’s a small meal I make sure that I have eaten some carbs.  
Big tip: it makes you feel better the next morning too!
I make sure to work out at my school′s fitness center and also hit up Green Monkey′s yoga studio for some classes.  My freshmen year I was convinced that the best cure for a hangover was a greasy breakfast and a day of being locked in my darkened dorm room with old episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer playing.  Not true!  It took me a while to figure out that the best cure is some toast, fruit and a big glass of water – followed by a period of digestion where, okay I won’t lie, I might indulge myself with some TV time – but then it’s off to the gym, or sometimes a walk around campus.  Getting out of the room always makes me feel better and helps get the alcohol out of my system faster.  Don’t turn to Bloody Mary′s just yet…you’re not a seventy something with alcoholism.
So do what you want to do, and have a good time in school – allow me to draw from a cliché and say – these will be some of the best times in our lives but only as long as we’re smart about them.  Trust me, these are nights you’re going to want to remember fondly…or maybe just remember period.  My friends and I have a term you social folks should get familiar with: “the perfect buzz”.  Don’t drink until you black out, pass out or throw up – because the point of the whole socializing thing is to have fun – and there’s nothing fun about forgetting that you threw up and passed out in the middle of a party.  

By Heather Colvin, Former Campus Monkey Student Editor

From: 9/8/08

…with the friends we’ll never forget.

 
Let’s speak candidly – one party connoisseur to some others: school is a social environment.  I am sure we’ve all rolled our eyes when we have heard the professors and administrators at our respective schools discussing this new phenomenon of “binge drinking”.  Times have most certainly changed since they were in school and I think we are able to acknowledge that fact as mature young adults.


My apartment houses various kinds of alcohol, including vodka, wine and beer and I have shot glasses sitting next to the plates in my cupboard.  I often can be heard referring to soda as a “mixer” or “chaser” and when I go to football games I love a good tailgate.  So how, then, can I consider myself to be someone committed to a healthy and Balanced lifestyle?  That’s very simple.  


Even though Thursdays are referred to as “Thirsty Thursdays” in my neck of the woods, I still make sure to get enough sleep so I am awake and alert for my classes in the morning.  I know that I love Thursday nights out with my friends so when I drew up my schedule for this semester I made sure I did not have any classes before noon the following day.  That way even if I stay out until closing time, I can still get a good 8 hours of rest.  And if you have an unavoidable 8AM, as I’m sure some of you do – sorry Charlie but you need to be responsible enough to either stay in or leave early the night before.


I am a firm believer in proper nutrition.  No I am not that girl who cuts calories out of my daily meals so I can later take them in as alcohol calories.  A friend of my sister’s went to University of Colorado Bolder and managed to spend all his dinning dollars on alcohol – he ended up being so malnourished he got Scurvy – sorry but I’m no pirate.  I make sure to get proper meals and never go out on an empty stomach.  Even if it’s a small meal I make sure that I have eaten some carbs.  
Big tip: it makes you feel better the next morning too!


I make sure to work out at my school′s fitness center and also hit up Green Monkey′s yoga studio for some classes.  My freshmen year I was convinced that the best cure for a hangover was a greasy breakfast and a day of being locked in my darkened dorm room with old episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer playing.  Not true!  It took me a while to figure out that the best cure is some toast, fruit and a big glass of water – followed by a period of digestion where, okay I won’t lie, I might indulge myself with some TV time – but then it’s off to the gym, or sometimes a walk around campus.  Getting out of the room always makes me feel better and helps get the alcohol out of my system faster.  Don’t turn to Bloody Mary′s just yet…you’re not a seventy something with alcoholism.


So do what you want to do, and have a good time in school – allow me to draw from a cliché and say – these will be some of the best times in our lives but only as long as we’re smart about them.  Trust me, these are nights you’re going to want to remember fondly…or maybe just remember period.  My friends and I have a term you social folks should get familiar with: “the perfect buzz”.  Don’t drink until you black out, pass out or throw up – because the point of the whole socializing thing is to have fun – and there’s nothing fun about forgetting that you threw up and passed out in the middle of a party.  

 


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