What were you like in College? (Inspired by Fenris' s post)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Me? I was a chemical hedonist. I spent all my free time at gigs, movies, parties, bars. Didn't have that much sex, I was more concerned with trying to get transcendental (also, the booze and pills tend to dampen that sort of thing). I wore black, obsessed about the most obscure recordings, had the oddest hair (Iggy Pop to Keith Richards, to some weird Rocket From The Crypt quiff, to some bizarre Brett Anderson / Justine Frischmann androgynous thing) and pretty much tried to get out of my head as often as possible.

Now? I'm completely different. Much more contemplative and relaxed. Much more 'ordinary'. I'm a real 'regular' guy.

I'm not glorifying how I was, nor am I ashamed of it, but I appear to have gotten something out of my system. For that, I am truly, truly grateful.

[GOPisEvil]

1. I was a lot like Fenris, actually.

Only my taste in music was much, much worse than his. ;-)

[mac56]

2. According to Chef from "South Park":

"There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college."

[ewagner]

3. It was a smorgesbord

of ideas, music, and change.

I grew up believeing that my life wasn't my own. I always envisioned that there was agroup of old men in some smoke-filled room that were making decisions about what my life would be. College was the awakening for me.

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. I was a pot-smoking hippie

Well, at least my senior year.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Hippie? With the hair and everything? Are there photos?

I WANT PHOTOS!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

51. Another hippie here...

Still have the long hair, but I don't smoke as much pot as I used to.

[cleofus1]

5. I was like fenris in High School

When I left home to go to school...all bets were off....yeah baby!

[Robb]

7. I had short, bright blue hair

...smoked like a chimney, and wore a wallet chain. Opened for RFTC, actually. Dueling shots with The Cows. Wild oats. Hurm.

And I said "you'll have to speak up" considerably less. :)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. But were you a dingbat?

And how were RFTC? Were they cool?

[Robb]

9. Once a dingbat, always a dingbat

As for RFTC, you never saw a group of men spend so long on their hair in your life... hairdryers, hairspray. Pompadours don't make themselves, I guess. We thought it was funny. :)

[jpgray]

52. 'The Cows' as in Shannon Selberg? (nt)

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. Sex, drugs, rock & roll.

I was a reprobate!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Good God! I'm truly, truly shocked.

Look at the photo. That's me being shocked by you.

[Whitacre D_WI]

12. I did, however, outgrow the vandalism from high school.

[Fenris]

16. You are a very attractive young woman.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. Yes. But that was before I went to Cuba for The Operation.

[Fenris]

20. Let me guess.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. I wish! Such sculptured features, such poise!

[tigereye]

49. you a reprobate

that's truly shocking... the foundation of my world has just shifted...

[mitchum]

13. I lived in "Voodoo Mansion" with the rest of my band...

a male hustler, and two call girls. A huge crumbling house where my share of the rent and utilities was 55 dollars a month!
Despite all of the...ahem...distractions, I was on the dean's list.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Clueless nerd

Then again, 70% of the people at IME were clueless nerds.

It was a men-only institution, ran by the Brazilian Army. The exams were the toughest in the entire country. (In Brazil, admittance to college/university is based entirely on written exams -- no subjective judgment is allowed) You'll understand the place was somewhat nerdier than average.

[SoCalDem]

15. Party all the time..

Bear in mind that I went to a school in a semi-dry state.. We had mostly 3.2 beer, but mind-over-matter convinced us we were pretty drunk anyway:party:


Kansas University in 1968 was a pretty wild place :).. Only made it through one year.. I was a poor kid who was smart enough to get a full ride academic scholarship, a fistful of grants, free everything...


BUT.. I was also dumb enough to piss it away because I partied too much :dunce:

Oh well... life goes on..

Had I managed to "rescue" my gpa, I would have probably ended up a whole different person.. Maybe translating dusty books somewhere ...or teaching bored kids.. or directing plays...Who knows??

[Fenris]

17. We like you just the way you are

The cat avatar you've had recently scares the hell out of me.:D

[donco6]

18. I was a fundamentalist.

:(

I'm fully recovered.

[grannylib]

21. I pretty much got the sex and drug thing outta my system in high school

except for weed; in college, I was a single mom so I was pretty focused on raising my child and homework...I lived off campus so I did not get into the college party scene

[RandomKoolzip]

22. LSD, LSD, LSD.....

I don't remember a lot of what I did in college, bacause I was tripping most of the time. And when I wasn't tripping, I was smoking huge amounts of New Orleans ditch-weed (total shwag, gives one a thunderclamp-style headache and a mild buzz). Somehow I managed to get pieces of mine published in textbooks and magazine, though. And get a 3.6 GPA most of the time. And play guitar in a band who played every wednesday at Nick's on Tulane.

I've always been overweight, but through most of college, I was 310 lbs or so. And my father had died the year I started attending college, so bouts of depression were also very common (we were really close; he taught me how to play bass).

Musically, this was my "discovering great songwriters" period. Total Elvis Costello obsession ("Imperial Bedroom" on mushrooms: fucking genius), Duke Ellington CD's, Nick Lowe, Garcia-Hunter, Gershwin, Robbie Robertson......heard GbV for the first time in college.

Didn't get laid. Shaved my head most of the time, sloppy clothes. Good times, for the most part.

I gotta go back and get my degree, though. I got too immersed in the drug scene and let that taint my desire to attend classes....ended up resigning because my scholarship money ran out and I was too messed-up to ask for a deferment......spent the next two years a pot-smoking, Pernod-drinking recluse.

[Whitacre D_WI]

25. Drinking Pernod did not give you an appreciation for Gainsbourg?

Then you, sir, are truly beyond all help.

[RandomKoolzip]

26. No, but it DID give me an appreciation for having solid BM's

after I stopped drinking entirely.....(haven't had a drop of alkee-hall since sept. 99).

No amount of pernod, vicodin, ecstacy, or scotchgard could give me a bone-on for the Ghoul of Gitanes.

[Whitacre D_WI]

28. I LOVE solid BMs!

They make me feel all :loveya:

[RandomKoolzip]

31. A good shit is FAR FAR better than most orgasms I've ever had.

And any man who doesn't agree with THAT is a wuss.

Anyways, we're kinda of-topic now.......In college, I had a LOT of BM's, both solid and liquid. See, now, we've come full circle! Back on track....

[Whitacre D_WI]

32. Mrs. Koolzip doesn't read DU, does she?

She may not like your subject line.

Then again, everyone who know me knows that I find pooping preferable to sex; so's I s'pose I shouldn't throw stones.

[RandomKoolzip]

35. Nah. She thinks DU's worse than porn.

Wow. I had no idea we had so much in common. Crapping is #1 on the list of life's great pleasures. Sex is somewhere around #8 or so.


How much longer before this thread is locked?

[Whitacre D_WI]

37. So long as our discussion does not address the COMBINATION...

...of excreta and coitus, I think we are safe.





Oops.

[RandomKoolzip]

39. Fucking SHIT! Oh, whoops.....

Looks like "the man" is gonna come down hard (that sounded naughty too, but it's not.)

[mobuto]

46. Gainsbourg sucks!

well, his recent stuff sucks. Brel all the way!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. I once woke up clothed in a freezing cold bath with a beard of dry puke

I have no recollection of the events leading up to that point.

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. I woke up with apple chunks all over my sheets.

Apparently, we had run out of lemons with which to chase the tequila.

[RandomKoolzip]

34. One time, I took too much vicodin and had some straight bourbon....

(remember, this is New Orleans and I'm over 300 lbs.) and SIX of my friends had to carry me up the stairway to our apartment to get me into bed. SIX! And it was a struggle.


One thing that used to scare me was waking up the day after a acid-beer-pot-pills binge and finding messages from people I'd never remember meeting or talking to before on my answering machine. Used to make me very paranoid....

[Whitacre D_WI]

36. Dude. You WERE Lester Bangs.

Though it now appears that you will live past 33. Kudos!

[RandomKoolzip]

38. Lester Bangs smelled better than me. My hygiene's worse,

but I don't have the massive drug intake anymore to justify the stench. I'm more like Robert Christgau crossed with Rev. Jim Ignotowski from "Taxi."

[Whitacre D_WI]

40. I smell way worse than you when I've got my fart on, brother.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. Five highlights of my University Career

-Dropped Acid dressed as a WWI German Soldier (outfit 'borrowed' from a film set) then wandered around downtown Glasgow

-Committed the first crime against Tony Blair's Government (involving a three-feet bottle of Moet et Chandon)

-Was robbed by my own landlord

-dated an official missing person under an assumed name

-Broke into the Tory Foreign Secretary's back garden for reasons obscure

[RandomKoolzip]

43. Wow, sort of a Keith Moon/Paul Krassner mix going on.....

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Jerry Rubin of Scottish Parka-Rock, Screaming Lord Byron!

[RandomKoolzip]

42. We're STILL spraying disinfectant in the living room to remove the evil.

You didn't just fart, you levelled a voodoo curse on my family....

[GumboYaYa]

45. One Mardi Gras, I had been up for about five days straight.

I was working day shifts so I was taking speed during the day to be able to work. At night I was going out and doing blow. Mardi Gras evening I got off work and ate a quarter of Mushrooms by myself. After a few hours I ended up at my apartment passed out on the front porch. My roomates came home and found me in convulsions on the front porch, passed out with my body shaking uncontrollably. They left me there. I survived.

I have so many of these stories from my days in New Orleans it is just sick.

[President_G_W_Bush]

23. Stumbling drunk

heh heh, that was fun...

[Insider]

29. high and shy

but i got my share. and i majored in physics.

B-)

[XNASA]

33. I was a 19 year old Navy Vet when I started college.

So it wasn't my first time away. I never got carried away by partying in college and I didn't socialize with the other students that much.

I was more or less a persnickity existentialist. With great hair and a fantastic body.

[GumboYaYa]

44. I tended bar at a late night bar in New Orleans throughout

college. Late night meant we started getting busy around 3:00 a.m. and went until about 8:00 a.m. the next morning. Needless to say, those late nights were usually fueled by excessive amounts of alcohol and cocaine.

I never met a party I wouldn't join in college. Pick a drug and I would do it if available. If I wasn't working you could find me at Tipitinas, The Maple Leaf, Muddy Waters, or some other music hole listening to music and probably high as a kite.

Like many DUers, I had more fun in those five years than should ever be permitted. Thank God I finally grew up.

Personally, I think that people need a few blow out years early in life. That way they never have to wonder about what they are missing and they don't feel the need to be as foolish later in life.

[Dees]

47. Me

I was a 21 year old Vietnam vet freshman. Attended college on the GI bill and worked about 30 hours a week 2nd shift in a factory. I guess I had a different perspective on school than most first year students. I pushed work, studies and a relationship pretty hard. Eventually I had to take a semester off as it all caught up with me.

Made some good friends who were also vets and we would upon occasion let it rip. There was a little tavern known as the Depot where most of us older guys would hang drinking red eyes and misbehave. When I graduated I told myself never again. A year later I was in grad school. Some people never learn.

[Nikia]

48. I was busy

I started my fresman year very shy. Luckily, I was on the cross country team so I got to meet a lot of people right away in a smaller group setting. I ended up working for college food services as I needed someway to pay for every expense incuurred in college although I luckily made enough during the summer for tuition, room, and board the first year so I didn't have to work too many hours. I was excited about joining possible clubs and attended several of them until I got bogged down by calculus homework. Then I just attended the Christian fellowship, Amnesty International, and later chess club. I made many friends through my clubs and such although my roommate and I hated each other. I did not attend parties. I studied a lot because my college was at a much higher level than my high school and the average student studied 25 hours per week according to a survey. After winter break, I joined a sorority and went to all the sorority events but not independent parties. I briefly dated two guys during that first year.
At the beginning of my second year, I met my now husband. I was still in cross country and track, my sorority, and had to work more since I got less financial aid. I attended my other clubs less and spent less time with other friends.
After that my priorities were studying,my husband, going to work, running, and my sorority. I did get drunk a few times per year. I did not try any drugs until I was out of college. My husband and I had sex alot more than the one night stand types. Sometimes, I think that I probably would have got a higher GPA and graduated with honors if I had not met my husband or been so busy, but I had a good time.

[tigereye]

53. freshman year

Catholic women's college, what was I thinking - drunk for the first time and couldn't remember anything.. drunk and bored

Sophomore year.. transferred to urban university - lived in a veggie/hippie household - we made tofu,etc. Drunk ( for me it didn't take much) pretty much every weekend and looking for guys at the frat houses and wherever. Joined a sorority. That didn't last since they smoked marijuana but didn't really talk about philosophy that much.

Junior year - lived with good female friends. Lots of parties. Lots of marijuana. Lots of marijuana. Too much marijuana. Ran for student gov't - no luck. Met the man I would later marry and spend my life with!

Senior year.. discovered punk and guys who played in bands. Lived at the punk club, wherever it happened to be. Fell in love, fell out of love. Lived over a bar. Listened to a lot of Ramones and the Clash. Great parties.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

50. i was a slut

and it was fun. also bit of a junkie...ahh that was fun