In my opinion, i thought the This American Life podcast was pretty funny and accurate. Everything they said was completely true even though it made us look like a bunch of douchebags. They covered a lot of what drunk kids did and the negative effects of alcohol and that was the more serious part. But they also emphasized with the kids with their views of tailgating and putting themselves in our shoes. The most memorable thing from the article for me was the drunk kid in the house. That just seemed pretty wild and one of my friends does it to a lesser degree. However, the article did leave certain things out. Not all of the students at Penn State act like how they described. Some don't go out and study.
I can't judge the tailgating here because i did not get tickets this season but I can say a few things about partying. People do really burst in to song or We Are chants on the bus. Most of the songs are the ones from the football games. Downtown people really do pee where ever they can. And most of the beer is natural light, the vodka is vlad, and the rum is admiral. They are all cheap, crappy tasting alcohol and would be out of business without college kids. About the drunk kid in the house, one of my friends likes to fall asleep on other peoples beds in my dorm. Personally i don't go out too much but i understand why others do. This is probably the one time in a lot of students lives that they can have fun like this so they take advantage of it.
This American Life was accurate in what they said but they only showed the school in one light and the podcast was only slightly balanced. And a few things have changed since they did that podcast, such as a dry campus, and they should come back and do a more balanced update (which they did but I'm not sure if its anymore balanced).
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