College: The Best Days of Their Lives
So what does the average college student enjoy doing when they take a break from the books? Party-duh! According to The Princeton Review’s survey of 120,000 college students for the Best 366 Colleges: 2008 Edition, tail-gating, Greek houses and bars on campus make college life for students a bit more interesting.
The list of top ten party schools includes West Virginia University as number one, followed by the University of Mississippi, University of Texas at Austin, University of Florida, University of Georgia, Penn State University, University of New Hampshire, Indiana University at Bloomington, Ohio University-Athens and University of California.
The Princeton Review is known for its annually updated guide to the country’s best institutions of - ahem -higher education. Students describe the presence of Greek life, sororities and fraternities, for example as an opportunity to be “among the most involved and active people on campus.” Football games, sporting events and other school traditions are marked as fun events for students too. Students who are of the drinking age also take advantage of bars in the vicinity of their college campus. Universities like Penn State and Ohio University Athens enjoy a college town with numerous diverse bars with live entertainment.
When you jam pack thousands of 19-to-21-year-olds students in one, usually small area, you can imagine that parties are going to happen. Commonly said throughout the survey by students: the hard work gets done during the weekdays so that they can party hard on the weekends. Simply put by one student, “Life is all about going to class in sweats and getting dressed up to party.”