Whether staying in-state or heading out-of-state for college, new college students find themselves thrown into a new environment where they meet new people and make new friends. The pressure to fit in has become a prevalent concern for most college students and may cause students to give into peer pressure. From drugs and alcohol to promiscuity, a new college student may find themselves doing almost anything to fit in with the overall student body. According to USA today, “Nearly half of America's 5.4 million full-time college students abuse drugs or drink alcohol on binges at least once a month.”
Unfortunately, “almost anything” can come at a cost to the student. When I first entered school at Georgia Tech, I was given three choices of which I could only pick two: earning good grades, getting sleep, and having a social life. For the majority of students and myself included, sleep is a necessary part of life, and the choice was automatically narrowed down to two. With the pressures of finding a “clique” or group of friends, having a social life tends to outweigh the idea of earning good grades. The act of putting your education, which you are paying good money for, on the back burner to ensure that you had a group a friends to drink and party with every weekend seems stupid; sadly, it is a choice made by new college students each year.
Now being in my last semester at Georgia Tech, I know that the option of earning good grades and getting sleep are far more important than having an active social life, and that it is possible to maintain a good balance between grades and friends. Incoming students should always remember that life is about balance and too much of one thing, including work and a social life, can be quite detrimental.
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