Tell the worst thing u did in college & Did u tell your college kid?

[Anonymous]

Got a D my first semester in college after being magna cum laude before (and after).

Told her because she got a D her first semester, too. Hopefully that’s the only one!

Sorry this isn’t a more juicy story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll start. I got really realllllllly drunk and also took ecstasy at a party and we were crammed on a balcony. It literally broke off and we all landed in a huge pile. One kid broke an arm, another an ankle but other than that only scrapes and scratches because there were thick bushes below. We all then hugged each other and told each other how much we loved one another (ecstasy talking) and then I barfed right in front of the firemen who seemed to show up immediately.

I told my college-aged kid part: I was on a balcony during a party and it broke off from the building, but luckily I didn’t get hurt because I fell in the bushes. With the lesson don’t stand on crowded balconies

So glad no one was badly hurt. A group of Irish students were killed and badly injured when this happened in Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

Got arrested when I was not completely sober and not completely clothed in a somewhat public space. Oh, I was on a date at the time.

I’ve told my teens I made some bad choices related to alcohol. I haven’t shared details.

[Anonymous]

Slept with a professor, drunken unprotected sex, got in cars with people who were impaired. I would never tell my kids these things. I regret all of these but I think telling kids is sort of condoning it. It says if you do this kind of stuff, you can still turn out ok like me. I’d rather them think this is risky behavior and if they still do it, it’s on them.

[Anonymous]

Or is it better to share (airbrushed) versions of your bad choice/bad decisions, to help them navigate the teen years and living away from home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll start. I got really realllllllly drunk and also took ecstasy at a party and we were crammed on a balcony. It literally broke off and we all landed in a huge pile. One kid broke an arm, another an ankle but other than that only scrapes and scratches because there were thick bushes below. We all then hugged each other and told each other how much we loved one another (ecstasy talking) and then I barfed right in front of the firemen who seemed to show up immediately.

I told my college-aged kid part: I was on a balcony during a party and it broke off from the building, but luckily I didn’t get hurt because I fell in the bushes. With the lesson don’t stand on crowded balconies

That I smoking weed and hated it—Yet I told him. That I had sex with almost any man boy who knocked on my door. Didn’t tell him. I had ptsd from sexual assault and was traumatized and really thought that I was only good for sex. No I won’t share this with him.

Did you teach him what not to do?

We can all share stories about what we did however unless we learned from it and teach our kids to do better with education ie knowlege about things like Birth control or drunk driving we aren't making any headway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slept with a professor, drunken unprotected sex, got in cars with people who were impaired. I would never tell my kids these things. I regret all of these but I think telling kids is sort of condoning it. It says if you do this kind of stuff, you can still turn out ok like me. I’d rather them think this is risky behavior and if they still do it, it’s on them.

No that is absurd.

Tell your kids and teach them to be better humans.

[Anonymous]

That I got stupid drunk at a bar then walked on a stone wall with couple hundred foot drop down to river. U can’t really believe I’m still here. I have shared that stupidity.

[Anonymous]

High on pot and drunk too much of the time. I grew up in a dysfunctional family and was self-medicating. Have not brought it up, but recently did share some bits of my dysfunctional family life with older DC as he complained about how horrible his life is. He has since admitted that it gave him a better perspective and he’s working on being more positive. My younger DC overheard me so hopefully I nipped the bud in terms of dealing with lack of gratitude/insight from him.

[Anonymous]

Got in cars with drunk people all the time. Horrified at myself now. No, have no shared but cautioned against doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crank called girl in next dorm room who was loudly coughing: “Satan says STOP COUGHING!!”

To DD: Dorm walls are really thin so be considerate.

Your college experience doesn’t sound very fun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll start. I got really realllllllly drunk and also took ecstasy at a party and we were crammed on a balcony. It literally broke off and we all landed in a huge pile. One kid broke an arm, another an ankle but other than that only scrapes and scratches because there were thick bushes below. We all then hugged each other and told each other how much we loved one another (ecstasy talking) and then I barfed right in front of the firemen who seemed to show up immediately.

I told my college-aged kid part: I was on a balcony during a party and it broke off from the building, but luckily I didn’t get hurt because I fell in the bushes. With the lesson don’t stand on crowded balconies

So glad no one was badly hurt. A group of Irish students were killed and badly injured when this happened in Berkeley.

OP. Oh, I know. So lucky. It was the second floor of an A-frame house, and without doubt the thick bushes and landscaping below helped. I still keep in touch with a couple of people who were there and sometimes we have to convince each other that it actually happened, it could have been SO much worse.

[Anonymous]

I was a student at UMBC and met these 2 guys from DC at the Inner Harbor. I hooked up with one guy, in my roommate's bed while she was away for the weekend.

I hooked up with a lot of random guys from Baltimore and DC during my college years. Never got a disease or pregnant thankfully. My self-worth and self-confidence are a lot better at 40 also.

[Anonymous]

Lots of bad college behavior, much that I have never shared, and certainly won't share with my children.

[Anonymous]

Certainly makes one wonder what they are not sharing with us…