Cam Sanford

Students 
I had a mental image of what I thought the students at Southern would be like. I had imagined big parties and a lot of campus life during the weekends. I was surprised when for the first few weeks here I hadn't heard much about anything like that. It was a few days ago when I was hanging out with my friend and one of their friends. I had heard a bit about this friend and that something had happened to them over the weekend. They decided to share what had happened. They drank too much and got alcohol poisoning; they were taken out of our dorm building by ambulance. He started talking about this alcohol poisoning and the whole story had me honestly shocked. I hadn't realized people were doing these things and taking those risks. I understood that people here drank and partied just less publicly than I had originally thought it would be like. However, I didn't think someone would be pushing themselves so much that they'd have to have an ambulance called for them. Clarity had came when people were running around my friend's dorm talking about "Wine Wednesday" and a guy who had to ask his friend to go check him in as an overnight "just in case". Later he had to be walked to the elevator and held up. I knew people would be drinking here but I imagined they would have bit more self control and not being so irresponsible.