#NerdsUnite: I just graduated college!! But um, now what?
<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Megan. She recently just graduated from SDSU and is now entering the world with a fresh pair of eyes in a stinky economy. In these series of posts she will discuss her thoughts and discoveries as she ventures out into the real world. Hit it Meg!!! </editorsnote>
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @MegCorbs
This is something I never, and I mean NEVER, thought I would admit but…
I actually MISS house parties. 
College house (more like apartment) parties are the BEST/worst things in the world and SDSU had PLENTY of them every night.
Because San Diego has a TON of college/universities in one town, they are insane about checking IDs and can see a fake from a mile away. It wasn't worth it to waste your money so the next best thing was finding a party to crash.
This is how 99% of my SDSU party nights usually went:
My two roomies who I ALWAYS partied with, and I would make lots of calls and texts to see where and when the parties were that night. Sometimes this took 5 seconds, sometimes hours with not the best of options.
Once that goal was accomplished we would move on to phase two: Getting Ready. Since my two roomies and I were all the same size we would raid each other’s closets finding clothes that we each haven't been photographed in a thousand times. Then it was Britney Spears (don't judge, she is perfect getting party ready music) and shot taking time.
Our poison of choice: usually Smirnoff. I used to be able to take shots like a boss! Now the thought of taking a shot makes me want to vomit. Ohh how growing up is no fun. Then AFTER taking shots (because for some reason we never learned from this mistake) we would do our make-up and hair hoping not to turn out like a $2 whores.
Taking a shit ton of pictures was always important. Alcohol+Brit Brit+excitement+girls will more times than not, result in obnoxious picture taking.
We would always walk/take the trolley to parties. We may have been your typical drunken college girls but we were not stupid. So as we stumbled and laughed our way there and were hopeful about the night's activities.
Most house parties were alcohol-less or just about that by the time we got there (helllooo broke college kids) so we usually had a water bottle full of vodka and another of a chaser (sometimes a horrible idea because you don't know how much you were drinking).
The house parties themselves were either SUPER cramped with tons of people or sadly sparse, which was awkward if you didn't know the person throwing it. We would then walk around scoping out the boy situation and find a spot to hang out in for a little bit.
College house parties are usually SUPER gross. Beer spilt all over the floor, cups and dishes everywhere, bathrooms destroyed. Thinking back I cringe a little bit, especially if it was a guys' house. Boys, I love ya, but you are NASSSTY!
But none of this grossness compares to the college sport of choice….Beer Pong. Oh beer pong how I love thee. If you don't know what this amazingly fun game is, basically you set up 10-12 cups full of beer in the shape of a triangle on either ends of a table. Two teams of two try to throw a ping pong into the other teams cups first and of course drinking is involved. So why is this gross you ask?
Well the cups get reused and reused and reused pretty much throughout the entire night…and multiple people. Beer pong is the ultimate college whore. Aside from this the ping pong balls get bounced through that aforementioned gross floor and then "washed" in a water cup (more like dunked quickly) because we can reuse cups that other people's lips have touched but god forbid we throw a ball that has bounced on the floor into a "fresh" cup of beer. Gotta love the college kid logic. By the end of the night the water cup looks like it was filled with gutter water. Yummy.
Usually towards the end of the night a dance party will break out and you better believe that this uncoordinated white girl thinks she's got MOVVESSS by then. Honestly though, there's nothing like dancing around drunkenly with your girls.
Sometimes the parties were themed. Anything from 80s party to dress like a celebrity of your choice to golf pros and tennis hoes and my favorite, Gangsta party. Being broke you always had to get creative.
When we would decide to stumble home we were usually starving. This is where living on campus came in handy. We had not one but 2 awesome late night burrito places. I love me some California Burritos (carne asada, cheese, sour cream and french fries! Don't knock it till you try it). The burritos were the size of your head (and I would finish it all!) and cost like $3. WIN!
So why would I miss that you ask? Why not! It was always fun and an adventure. I remember wishing to be 21 so that I didn't have to worry about finding a party and alcohol and now I wish I could go back to those crazy times. Getting up in the am and crawling into each other's beds to trade stories about the night before was always the highlight of the whole weekend!
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