For those of you who’ve spent a spring semester at ISU, picture Saturday night of VEISHEA.\u00a0 For those of you who haven’t spent a spring semester at ISU, picture drunken revelry.\u00a0 There are droves and droves of people flocking to the streets, always with alcohol in their hands, heading toward the bars.\u00a0 They’re loud, obnoxious, and for the most part stupid.\u00a0 There’s a concert going on in the background and everyone’s happy becase there aren’t any classes tomorrow.<\/p>\n
This is the scene at UL every night.\u00a0 The droves of people are the students because the drinking age is 18 and the federal government has largely given up on keeping alcohol out of minors’ hands, even as they celebrate the completion of middle school (see today’s Irish Times<\/em>).\u00a0 The bars in UL’s case are on campus, heavily promoted, and always open – even on Sunday.\u00a0 Not even the library is open on Sunday.\u00a0 The concerts take place near the students’ union; there is someone playing something almost every night, and it’s always loud.\u00a0 Tonight the student body president introduced The Delorentos<\/span> by screaming about fees and handing condoms out to the crowd (perhaps Mrs. Palin could learn a thing or two).\u00a0 Lastly, classes are of no importance whatsoever to a large portion of the UL students because the vast majority, if not all, of their grade is determined by one end-of-semester test.\u00a0 No academic progress needs to be made until week 9 (since students are quite good at memorizing and regurgitating junk) and classes aren’t widely attended until after Week 1.<\/p>\n There is a distinct divide between those parading around in the streets, and those in their rooms wishing there was something else to do.\u00a0 Katherine and I are most certainly in the latter group and plan on getting as far away from Limerick as we can on the weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those of you who’ve spent a spring semester at ISU, picture Saturday night of VEISHEA.\u00a0 For those of you who haven’t spent a spring semester at ISU, picture drunken revelry.\u00a0 There are droves and droves of people flocking to the streets, always with alcohol in their hands, heading toward the bars.\u00a0 They’re loud, obnoxious, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,28,13,30],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marks_updates","tag-classes","tag-drunkards","tag-limerick","tag-ul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}