Ahhh, good times...

Apparently the college lifestyle hasn't changed too drastically since we've left. Couple of interesting and/or depressing points:

• The comparison date used by this study, i.e. the date considered "way back in the day", is our freshman year: 1993.
• Good news! We weren't just binge drinkers, we were FREQUENT binge drinkers. Apparently we were ahead of our time, according to the article. "The proportion of students who drink (about 68 percent) and binge drink (40 percent) has changed little since 1993. But there have been substantial increases in the number of students who binge drink frequently (take five drinks at a time, three or more times in two weeks), who drink 10 or more times a month, and who get drunk three or more times in a month." (Side note: if binge drinking is worse than drinking, and frequent binge drinking is worse than binge drinking [and is defined as above], how do they categorize what we did?)
• I dispute this remark: "'The percentage of kids who drink and binge drink is essentially the same between 1993 and 2005, but the intensity of the drinking has dramatically changed,' Califano said. 'There's an intensity to the consumption we see here that we don't see in the general population.'"
• "Now, he said, students are 'drinking to become intoxicated as fast as they possibly can.'" What the heck were we doing, sipping on mint juleps??
• "'It's getting more intense,' she said. 'Drinking games that were happening in private parties or houses or bonfires 10 years ago are now happening in public venues. That to me reflects a sort of larger acceptance of extreme drinking.'" Ahem, we brought "This game sucks!" and "Z" to the public sphere more than a decade ago, dammit.