No drinks for them
By Kurt Soller
"Ask [...], a student at northwestern University, what the best part of freshman year was and she'll have one answer: the ease of procuring vodka. She drank wine coolers her senior year of high school, but those were tough to find; once she hit college, all she had to do was ring up an upperclassman. Soon she was drinking 'all day, every day' while her classmates were on a different social schedule: all night, every Saturday. 'I would literally sit at my desk in class with a plastic bottle full of vodka,' she remembers of her freshman year. 'It could have been a liter each day. Shots in the morning, the middle of the day, before dinner, after dinner: all day long it was like water.'..."
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