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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gen X got a taste of actual work and fun in college. Before it got ruined.

The real declined stared with MADD - mothers against drunk driving, raising drinking age and AIDS.

All college fun started to end at the end of the 1970s and was completely ruined by 2001. Due to above reasons

[b]I started college in 1980 [/b]and drinking age was 18 I went to Stonybrook which still was very hippie like. We had like 10 bars on campus and two clubs, hall parties every Thursday through Saturday. Beer,  jungle Juice vodka at hall parties were FREE as paid out of student activity fee. Our on campus Bars stayed open till 4 am. No one dated as we all hook up.

But that all started to end around 1982. Raising drinking age to 21 and tough DWI laws really overnight killed a lot of fun. Plus computers then tech ruined a lot.

Imagine today if my Hall threw our 1980 Jungle/Juice Lude Toga Party. Yes we have huge garbage cans full of koolaid and vodka and everyone got a quelude. And smoking legal too so smoking pot all mixed in. I recall I was DJ ing rappers delight with Mike at one point. And some girl tripping on LSD. Yet at Stonybrook 1980 parties like that were common.

My nephew went to stony Brook 40 years later and I rather be in a Soviet prison camp [/quote]

You can't be Gen-X. I am and I was 6 when you started college. [/quote]

My point was Gen X got a taste of a real childhood and college experience, it was already winding down. I say the parties slowed down for good with Y2K. Literally news years Eve 1999 was end of life.

I have college aged kids and they and their friends so boring. I recall once at 19 we decided at 3am on a Friday we should go to the Hamptons after clubbing we grabbed our stuff which was 300 miles away and drove there hung over and drunk. Passed out on beach and woke up partied hard, ended up going to Neptunes Beach club, Bordy Barn, CPIs, Ed’s Bay Pub, Hampton bay diner and dockers and drove home on Sunday evening. We would hang out and crap happened. I must of had 60 beers, shots and we hit a house party. Gen X that spirit still alive a bit more. Amazing we did not all die. Two years later we did it for skiing! I must have slept in 100 different beds and couches in some years. We were always out.

Sad that Gen x or milenials so boring. I recall my first job we used to do spring break together or go skiing together was like a frat house. But that was ruined too. No fun at work allowed.

Now kids have virtual fun on tic toc and watch Netflix [/quote]

There is some truth re: kids living through SM and not experiencing it in today's time. But, you're romanticizing the GenX experience a bit. I had the same experiences as you did: spring break, toga parties, beach houses, sleeping on floors, etc. But, there was a lot of ugliness to that as well. Lots of my friends had pregnancy scares, got STDs, ended up in the hospital with alcohol-related injuries. People found them selves assaulted or in other scary situations. Drunk driving. A friend of a friend was put in prison -so much for college!- for drunk driving and killing someone (he drove for someone "less drunk than he was" and killed a passenger). I look back and to think it's amazing I came out unscathed. And thus, that's why some of the pushback (you may call it a buzz kill) came from.

There is a middle ground between complete debauchery and zoning out on SM. Kids today just haven't found it, sadly. [/quote]

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