I'm beginning to feel like most of the strange decisions made by students living in the residence halls are made by men, since this week I will once again be talking about a decision made specifically by men. New college students living in the residence halls, especially those who are under the age of twenty-one, tend to purchase a large amount of alcohol, often at great expense. The most interesting part of this situation is that these underage men do not purchase this alcohol for their own enjoyment the majority of the time.
These men instead purchase alcohol primarily to be able to offer drinks to women that they know and wish to impress. I believe that the reasoning behind this phenomenon is similar to that which I described when discussing large TVs. The young men who buy these large quantities of alcohol acquire it in order to express their social status and importance as opposed to buying it for their own enjoyment. This buying of alcohol as a method of impressing their peers is another example of the need of young college men, especially freshmen, to achieve social status in any way that they can.
Image Credit: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2011/10/using-facebook-to-assess-alcohol-related-problems-among-college-students/
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