My topic for my article is peer pressure in the lives of college students. There are many hypothetical situations that I could use in my article that a normal college student would face, but the best one that I think relates is one that deals with drinking in college.
Picture this: It is a Friday night and you have only been at school for a few months, so all your friendship are pretty new. Well, you are not a big drinker and you do not always like to go out, but you just hate the feeling of being excluded. So, you attend the parties and events with your new friends anyways. Once again, it’s a Friday night and all your friends are attending a house party and ask you to go with them. You are feeling as if you should not be going out because you have been out the past four weekends and really need to slow down. So, you think about it and you hesitantly say yes because you do not want your new friends to look down on you. You decide that you will not drink at the party and just go with your friends to have fun. But, once you get to the party all your friends are drinking and having a good time. One of the hosts at the party hands you a beer and at first you say no, but then you take it anyways. You feel that if you do not drink that everyone there will stare at you and think you are “weird.” So, you drink in order to feel included and because all your friends think you should.
How would handle a situation like this? Would you go to the party? Would you drink at the party because you would want to feel included or would you stick to how you feel and not drink?
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