Truth: Yes, in many ways it is - fraternities, crazy parties, pranks, etc. However, this movie exaggerates all these aspects, making it very funny!
Truth: Yes, many are. Give a college student an ethernet internet connection and they'll be addicted to IM!
Truth: Yeah, but if you wanna stay in school, it's only a party on the weekend. SU sure is. But then again, aren't most colleges like that? There really isn't much else going on on weekend nights.
Truth: That's not totally true. Yes, many take naps because they have significant breaks in their class schedule. But, because they stay out all night hanging out with friends or doing work(procrastinating), they sleep really late which may be why people think they sleep all the time. Either that or they don't sleep much at all while at school and sleep all the time at home to catch up(like me).
Stereotype: Fraternities and sororities are all "bad".
Truth: No, this is not the case. There are many greek organizations out there that are not just the "social" kind. There are some that are honorary service organizations(such as the one I'm in), or others for specific majors or achievements. Too bad a few isolated incidents gave all Greek organizations a seemingly bad name.
- Go out for the night at 11pm and return at 5am (No curfews makes college students creatures of the night).
- Going over to someone's house and hanging out for hours, along with many other non-residents, playing "games", watching tv, and having senseless conversations with no parents yelling at you to leave
- Jello Wrestling - I say, why not? Everyone should try it!
- College Sports!!!
- Going to class drunk...I don't know why someone would do this, but it does happen!
- Making collages of interesting subjects for April Fools Day
- 6 weeks of hell
- French fries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner - gotta HATE the dining hall!
- Frisbee, at any hour of the day, on the quad or elsewhere
- Two words: NO PARENTS!!! WOOHOO!!! =) (that explains a lot of things!)
- Killer Saturday - who wasn't killed or injured???
- All expenses paid vacations - traveling to bowl games with the marching band, or b-ball games with the pep band, or other random gigs
- Mass snowball fights or ultimate frisbee on the whole quad
- AOL IM replaces the phone. It becomes the main form of communication.
- LONG somewhat "interesting" walks home very late at night, especially on the weekend, trying to get past public safety safely.
- You acquire new and very strange nicknames....***itals, Gonads, en fuego, Tribal Midget, Dirty Bitch, the list goes on and on!
- Instead of being excited to win a soccer game...you're thrilled to have lasted the longest in the latest match of the 'alternative' ping pong (either in the basement or heck, why not the porch or even the backyard?!)
- FSU!!!
- Endless procrastination
- Living so close to all your friends(well not counting the ones from home)
- FLIP CUP!!! Who's the Flip Cup MVP??=)
- Celebrating the 80's better than they did back then
- A party to celebrate Madonna turns into something just as wild as Madonna
- Bobbing for strange objects and out of control karaoke
- CAUTION tape turns into a fad
- The weekend morning brunch conversations...putting the pieces of the puzzle together
- Having a professor who's too lazy to make a final so he has you write a paper instead