Colleges are breeding grounds for a whole lot of things. One of the things that college fosters a love for is…THE GROUP.

You know what I mean; the singing groups, political groups, volunteering groups, and sports groups. It always seems, from afar, as though most colleges have got a group for everyone. I, however, disagree. Had I only had the motivation and school spirit in me to start my own groups while in college, there would have been a whole new clump of groups to add to the group roster. Those sentiments precisely are what bring me to my first group:

The I WOULD START A GROUP OF MY OWN IF I WEREN’T SO LAZY group

I feel as though this group should exist. How many of us out there have had our own ideas for groups but we haven’t started them because we were just too damn lazy? Think about the possibilities. We could all gather each week and discuss why we didn’t gather during the prior week. We could all voyage to the local bar for drinks after group meetings because we were too lazy to bring our own alcohol. I could have used some like-minded friends during school and I think that launching this group would have helped me.

The I’M NOT REALLY GOING TO QUIT DRINKING group

I didn’t want to have friends who were apocalyptic drinkers with no conscience, I didn’t want to have friends who were straight edge, and I also didn’t want to have friends who were moderate drinkers. While I was in college, I wanted friends who drank too much, but had a conscience about it. I wanted self-destructive friends who knew that their drinking was bad, advocated quitting, but never planned on quitting themselves. This should be a group in college. Read More »