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Re:Alcohol and Its Effects on Learning by fooandbarify on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @03:16AM (#2461907)
In my well-tested experience, there is a fine line between having fun and making an ass of yourself. The correlation between showing up to class wasted and making an ass of yourself is (again, in my own intimate experience) too large to ignore.

Don't get me wrong, I like to drink a lot. And I don't look down on others who drink a lot. I certainly don't think they're dumb. But I do think promoting/encouraging/bragging about it is generally kind of silly, especially when alcoholism is a serious problem that destroys lives.

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Re:Alcohol and Its Effects on Learning by burgerbrain on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @05:40AM (#2462121)
In my well-tested experiance, there is a fine line between me being able to sit through a lecture that has been dumbed down to the LCD, and me saying "fuck all" and not seeing to professor again until the final. That fine line is approximately 3-4 drinks ("trashed" is an exageration). On a wet campus it is entirely the professors call, and only once did I receive a complaint (over the bottle, not my behavoir)

Don't get me wrong, I think alcoholism is a problem, but I know that drinking is not. In fact, with all the recent neoprohibitionist MADD crap, I think drinking needs some public advocacy of its own.

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