Water. Drink lots and lots of water. You are dehydrated.

No one should drink on a school night; it’s hardly ever worth it. However, a lot of people do it anyway. Since I myself have probably had too much experience with this issue, I want to send some of my knowledge out to the freshmen. I really didn’t learn a lot of this common sense stuff until the end of my freshman year, a year in which I was hung over for a little less than half of the week.

Tips for getting drunk on a school night.

1. Make sure that you don’t have a lot going on. You don’t want to do homework or study drunk. The people you hear talking about pulling miracles out of thin air and getting an A on the test the morning after getting trashed are lying to you, either about the test or about how drunk they got. Make sure you have nothing important to do for the next day, like taking a test – nothing you couldn’t make up if need be. All of our professors have been there and will understand a one – or two – time thing. However, don’t make this a habit
2. Only do it if you really want to drink, not if you’re “iffy” about it and your roommates are doing it. If you don’t want to, just go to a friend’s room or somewhere else to get stuff done.
3. Before you get too drunk, set your alarm. I can’t tell you how many times I forgot to do this and it blew up in my face. To be safe, do this even before you start drinking so you aren’t freaking out about it later, having four people that have an alarm for you on their phones. If you think about it while you‘re drunk you get over paranoid because you know you are drunk and you know you run the risk of missing your morning class.
4. Don’t overdo it; it’s a school night, which means you have class tomorrow. Teachers aren’t stupid. They can tell when someone is hung over in class, but showing them you consider this class a high priority and are trudging through it despite your gigantic hangover looks great. If you overdo it, you risk being completely unable to make it to class.
5. Water. Drink lots and lots of water. You are dehydrated. How many times have you woke up and grabbed the nearest thing to you and gulped it down? You can get just as drunk if you drink a glass of water for every alcoholic drink, but it takes longer. The longer it takes the more time you have to actually have fun and enjoy yourself. Plus you have less of a chance of giving yourself a headache or becoming sick in the morning, and the risk of alcohol poisoning goes way down.

I hope these tips help you. The water trick really works, but as a freshman I just wanted to get as drunk as I could as fast as I could do it, so I never really listened to helpful tips like these. Hopefully you will be smarter than I was.

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