Alex Enayat

Contributing Writer, Print Journalism

This Connecticut sophomore starts drinking on Thursdays and doesn’t stop until Sunday nights.

She said she spends around 40 dollars a week on alcohol. It takes around six beers or eight shots of alcohol for her to get drunk.

She said blackouts occur almost every weekend, causing her to wake up shaky, with severe headaches. Her boyfriend buys her alcohol or she uses the fake ID her sister gave her.

Alcohol has gotten her into trouble.

“I received a three-hundred-seventy-two dollar ticket from walking around with an open container,” she said. 

Photo Illustration by Jake Coughlin / administrative executive editor

She said alcohol has also caused trouble with loved ones. “My drinking interferes with relationships because alcohol causes my emotions to rise, causing unnecessary fights.”

The student attributed her drinking to both verbal and physical fights.

She said alcohol makes her angrier than usual, causing her to push and shove people.

Other times, it makes her and her boyfriend get into verbal altercations that lead to yelling.   

A major problem for her is drinking and driving.

“A lot of the time I have places I need to be or feel uncomfortable at parties, and I am the most capable to drive.”

She said she does not believe her drinking will cause her to hurt herself behind the wheel.

Mostly in the summertime, she said she likes to do “booze cruises” or has “a couple of casuals [beers]” while driving around town, usually with two to five friends in the car.

Although she enjoys the summertime “booze cruises,” she said that alcohol does have effects on her school and social life.

“Sometimes I get too drunk and wake up the next morning not knowing who or what I did. It sucks to have to deal with the consequences of my embarrassing actions the next day,” she said.