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As in the US, student parties are held, for which then can be ashamed

At the beginning of March in the warmest place in America, in Florida, a real orgy begins: thousands of students come here from all over the country to come off in full. This is the beginning of the spring break, spring break in colleges. With the arrival of spring here begins the time of crazy parties. This orgy has already become part of the local culture: stories about student parties during the holidays have repeatedly appeared in Hollywood films and television shows.

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The resort town of Fort Lauderdale, for example, came to this year about 100 thousands of students. Some local residents are evacuated for a few weeks: the unbridled fun here lasts until mid-April, alcohol flows like water, and drunken students become involved in a wide variety of incidents, usually unpleasant for locals and family tourists.

This tradition, by the way, is more than 70 years old!

“You know what the main goal of any student party is? That’s right – get drunk quickly!”

I remember very well how I first got to the American party. I was invited by a friend. It was like this: what are you doing on Thursday? My friend has a birthday, do you want to go? I agreed - I wonder the same. That day there was a lot of work, I didn’t even have time to have dinner, and I thought, okay, anyway, I’m going to have a birthday party and have a bite. And here I am leaving the subway. A friend in his hand - a bottle of wine. I say: listen, I'm without a gift! He laughs: I already bought, and shows on the bottle.

Let's get up. The party is already in full swing. Of course, no classic birthday - no table full of food, no gifts, no toasts. Everyone brought a drink with them - and everyone drinks. They drink a lot and somehow stupidly, as for me. I remember when we went out onto the roof to look at the lights of Manhattan, one of the girls (!) took a bottle of vodka with her and sipped it straight from the bottle, savoring it as if it were an exquisite cocktail. I really wanted to eat. A couple of times the owner carried tacos among the crowd - but they flew away in a second. There was also a strange snack that looked like a snack, but was actually another way to get drunk: Gummi Bears. Yes, jelly bears - soaked in the same vodka. Brrrrr..

In the end, I pulled my friend out to the nearest pizzeria. “How can you drink so much and eat nothing, and most importantly, why??” I asked in surprise, stuffing myself with a life-saving slice of pizza. “It’s a habit,” he answered, laughing, “we’re all young, when we’ll have families, with children, then, of course, there will be holidays with food and everything else, but now – why such difficulties? Do you know what the main goal of any student party is? That's right - get drunk quickly! Well, what kind of food is there, huh?”

It all starts with the games

Legends are made about the parties of American students and films are made. The most popular plot of youth cinema is that they came to a party and then things started to happen. And this is not without reason. After all, university life is not only about sitting in libraries, but also about the most reckless and stormy years. The main madness happens at parties of “brothers” and “sororities” (fraternities and sororities). There are such organizations in every self-respecting college and university. They are usually called by different Greek letters (“Kappa Sigma”, “Alpha Delta Pi”, etc.). To join the “frat” (as Americans call fraternity for short), recruits must undergo a number of rather sophisticated tests (walking for several days with a brick in their hands, getting from outside the city within an hour without money or a telephone, smearing their lips with “brotherly lipstick” - hot sauce, eat the “brotherly apple” - onion, etc.). Few people survive, but those who remain receive wholesale “brothers” for the duration of their studies and they no longer need to think about how to make friends in a new place. The Americans themselves call fraternities "rent-a-friend". Usually, each fraternity has its own houses - and that’s where, in fights, the very crazy parties that show us in the movies take place.

The main thing you need to stock up on the party, of course, a drink. It should be a lot. Not just a lot, but a LOT - that is, in the literal sense, alcohol should flow like a river - a good party lasts for several days. In this case, of course, most often it is the cheapest drink. After all, no one will still savor the exquisite taste of the drink. Drink students first beer. But beer is not so easy to get drunk to a completely irresponsible state - so often vodka is used in the course - like heavy artillery. “It all starts with drinking games,” says Artyom, behind his back a stormy youth with parties in various colleges and universities. The most popular is of course beer pong. The rules are simple - the famous red plastic cups are placed on both sides of the table (for some reason, it is from such a container that they drink alcohol at all student parties, this is already a tradition), if you get into the opponent's cup with a ball, it drinks in one gulp. The team that drinks all its beer loses. Or here "Flip cap“- cups of beer are placed along the edge of the table, the players drink in one gulp, place the glass on the edge of the table and hit the bottom so that it turns upside down. It didn’t work out - a penalty. Also among the fun games that allow you to quickly get drunk, "Power Hour“For this purpose, a special selection of songs is first made, where the compositions change every minute. The music has changed - drink.

“At these parties, the worse you behave, the better. If they turn you upside down and pour beer into you through a tube, and it flows over the edge - that's great, cool, you're great. Or, for example, “running the gauntlet” - you go, and everyone pours whatever they want into you, any alcohol. There are a lot of games, but their main goal is to get drunk quickly. This is why they come up with different challenges – that is, a kind of motivation, agitation for drinking,” says Artem – and then, if you remember something, it means the party was not a success.”

American students even have their own definitions of the degree of intoxication. There are only two of them. The first is called break the seal (break the seal). This is when you drank and drank - and for the first time went to the toilet. It is believed that after that you can no longer stop and the second stage continues piss clear - when you run on need without stopping.

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The main thing is girls

Parties in the homes of brotherhoods often take place according to a similar scenario. Imagine a huge Victorian house, on the ground floor there is a living room and a dining room, and there is often a pool in the courtyard. Above - the rooms of students (there live "brothers"). The main goal of any frat party is to get girls to come. Partieswhere it was not possible to collect a sufficient amount of the fair sex, in slang they call sausage fest (sausage festival) and they go down on the list of the most lame ones. “Students are invited in different ways. Flyers are scattered around the college, usually people know about the party at least a week in advance, and with a good announcement, people talk about it all week. If enough money is raised, they can fly advertising over the campus on a plane,” says a former student Rochester Institute of Technology Sophia - I wasn't really into fraternity parties, my social circle was different. People who constantly engaged in lawlessness were not close to me in spirit. Fraternity party - this is a very standard thing. The beer was flowing like a river, everyone was getting drunk, there was a party downstairs, rooms upstairs, they were mostly secluded, the girls who constantly hung out at such parties were called meat market. I did not participate in this. Although my friend Jessica and I were free morals too - for example, we collected 5 dollars for kisses. Reached a certain state and - well, what's wrong? But no more than that. ”

Often the "fraternity" and "sisterhoods" organize theme parties. It may be a holiday in the style of 20-x or 50-s, or just an official ball, where all the girls will be in fluffy dresses, and the guys - in dress coats. But all this always ends in the same way - a grand binge. Unfortunately, not always with a good outcome. Among the causes of student deaths, alcohol and drug poisoning are among the most frequent.

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Elite party

However, not all American students spend their leisure time like this. According to Artem, among his friends were students of the Slavic faculty of one of the members of the elite Ivy leagues Brown University. No, they, of course, also drank - but they tried to make it beautiful. Since the faculty was Slavic - Slavic traditions were also in vogue. But in American style. “For example, they bought caviar. Well, like caviar - some kind of chemical fake. They took crackers, put a spoonful of sour cream and a spoonful of this terrible caviar on each one - and it was a treat. They drank everything with vodka, I drove after it, because only I at that time had 21. I bought the cheapest in a plastic bottle. He brought - and immediately to the table, warm, in the fridge, no one even guessed to put it.

The Russians, of course, took a snack, drank and immediately ate, and the Americans, who had never encountered pure vodka, sipped it like a cocktail. So I just watched in a shudder as they communicate, sipping warm vodka from plastic cups. But in general among those students there were cultural parties. We had musicians, someone sat at the piano or picked up a guitar, we often played the game. blues game. Someone sang, sang a couple of verses of the original song, and then began to compose his own on the go, and then passed the word. And everyone who was sitting around, had to take turns, each in turn, to compose his verse and sing. ”

Stormy student booze is not so much not banned at universities - they partly even compete with whom party cooler, because for students this is also a plus in favor of choosing a place to study. There are even ratings of the best universities for parties. According to one of the ratings, at the top of the hit parade - Pennsylvania State University. True, not so long ago a scandal was associated with this university when an 19-year-old boy was pumped up with alcohol to an insane state (according to his parents, he drank 18 drinks for an hour), he fell down the stairs and crashed.

On the other hand, and when to break away, if not in his youth? Having started a family and, most importantly, children, Americans usually settle down quickly, stormy parties turn into banal barbecues on the backyard, and only photos, former reunions and perhaps sometimes pains in the liver area remind us of past drinking. So if you now have the opportunity to go to one of the craziest student parties - go ahead!

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