16.

BTW MO, I really like your striped shirt, Looks great on you.

marsha beckerman at 12:23PM on Sep 6th 2007

17. I was sooooooo lucky with my first daughter, she worked, got her own loans, received good scholarships and pretty much studied, learned and hardly ever partied. after 5 years of college, graduating with her degree in Religions, she now lives in LALA Land and is a screenwriter. HUH?
My other daughter benefitted from the success of our corporation, attended prep schools and is going to party every damn night, I know it. She is a bit PSYCHO! She'll probably make a great politician, yeah?

rhodalee at 1:12PM on Sep 6th 2007

18. Mmmm, starting classes... syllabi get me totally hot, especially when the professor reads the grading criteria very slowly.

themkickingpoe at 1:51PM on Sep 6th 2007

19. work hard and play hard, college is supposed to be fun and one of the best experiences of anyone's life, you'll never have the opportunity again so savor it, but be responsible too. I know I am. bunch of kill joys.

ocvella at 2:29PM on Sep 6th 2007

20. Aw Mo,
I think that the popular videos your title alludes to indicates that not all college students are as tame as they appear on your broadcast.
However, you do raise a salient point: Why not get high on a class you will forget about in ten years as opposed to a party you will forget about the next day?
Blayze makes a good point about the cost and any responsible parent will certainly have a hands on approach.
Sorry I couldn't be funny here, but I am afraid of being dissected by a so called Doctor of Entermyology.
Kimball '08

John Giza at 2:55PM on Sep 6th 2007

21. All college students aren't drinkers and party animals. Hopefully SOME students have enough sense and self-esteem to make the right choices and not cave in to peer pressure! Why generalize...I mean, people are all different, college students included.

pamylla at 3:07PM on Sep 6th 2007

22. c'mon, yall, mo's pulling your collective leg. doncha know that most of his interviewees are rehearsed and scripted. Lighten up and enjoy the humor.

boredwell at 3:15PM on Sep 6th 2007

23. Aw Marsha Marsha Marsha,
I love Mo too, but that striped shirt wasn't all that.
Actually, the kid from Colorado in the dark stripes!
That was the cat's @$$.
Let's be fair and balanced here.
(although, i'll give you: if Mo sent it to me I would wear it every day.)
Kimball '08

John Giza at 3:17PM on Sep 6th 2007

24. Please fix your RSS feed!

Thanks

Om at 3:47PM on Sep 6th 2007

25. Huh reminds me of my school, it is not high end like NYU but I have partier friends who say that all are parties end at 11 on a weekday! The weekends it is deserted everybody goes home. my friend goes to a private college and she says the parties are wild over there. Huh figures.

Eliza at 3:47PM on Sep 6th 2007

26. Those are my kind of people. When I had an internship in the NJ State Librarian's office over the summer, one of the middle aged women asked me what "you crazy twenty somethings" do for fun. I could tell that I had disappointed her when I said that I play miniature golf, knit, go to museums, and care for bonsai plants in my spare time. My often margarita-less existence seems to be depressing for everyone but me.

Anna at 4:32PM on Sep 6th 2007

27.
Off topic :

I just watched a video of Ron Paul at the debate last night. He was on fire. Check out the video. It is something else . It was great to see him stand up to all those other candidates . They were not happy and you could hear them laugh in the background. I hope the last laugh in on them. Too bad the candidates who stand up for what they believe are so far and few between. I was so happy that he stood his ground in the face of blatant criticism from the rest of the jerks, who are under the thumb of the bush crime family. stand up and be counted!!!!

marsha beckerman at 4:49PM on Sep 6th 2007

28. I would just like to say, that I skimmed through the comments and saw a lot of things that I did not agree with. I noticed one person commenting about the fact that these young adults are underage. Most people who enroll in a state university, or other type of college, are fresh out of their fourth year of high school, leaving them at about 18 years old. Technically this is an adult, so I don't understand why some of the commenters are saying that these young adults are under age... they are clearly ADULTS. Also, in the same comment, they refer to these adults as 'kids', which they are not, they are old enough to be completely capable of making their own decisions. Not all of the people who enroll in a college are going to make the same decisions, and it will show what decisions you made when you get your first end of semester report. I believe the reports usually scare the rich adult slackers back into line.

Ryan at 4:48PM on Sep 6th 2007

29. To Ryan: When these people say under-age, they mean under the drinking age, or twenty-one, because the majority of students partying and getting drunk are under twenty-one (the seniors are all working their asses off trying to compensate for slacking off and partying earilier in college). Also, the argument could be made that eighteen year-olds are NOT capable of making their own decisions when it comes to drinking, etc, because research has shown that the human brain doesn't completely develope until well into the twenties, and also developes from back to front, with the decision making area of the brain in the front, so that complete, rational decision making isn't necessarily attained until the mid-twenties. Mind you, I'm eighteen so this doesn't exactly thrill me, but facts are facts.

Now, as for the joke on students "looking forward to classes" above all else, I'd say that's definitely very true, and not necessarily scripted at all. Some students, as wild as this may sound, really look forward to the freedom of picking classes they'll actually enjoy. In fact, recent research has shown that while the number of binge/extreme drinkers in college is increasing, so is the number of students who remain completely sober. The pressure to drink hasn't necessarily increased over the general population, but the pressure among students who already drink, to continue on to get extremely, dangerously drunk, has.

Eve at 7:32PM on Sep 6th 2007

30. So...I am in college- a senior- and have never gone to a party. Why would I want to hang out with all the losers playing beer pong when I can buy a great bottle of wine and savor the taste with close friends?

whitneylauren at 7:10PM on Sep 6th 2007