New students come to Northwestern from a wide variety of backgrounds with a wide variety of expectations of what their college experiences will look like, and this often includes the presence of alcohol. Popular movies and TV shows often depict college students drinking surrounded by lots of friends, so incoming students think that alcohol is the only means of developing strong friendships, and this could not be farther from the truth.
I recall sitting at lunch table one of the first days of Wildcat Welcome with a group of students I had just met, when one girl hesitantly brought up the topic of alcohol. She did not drink based on her moral values, and she was worried that she would be alone in her situation. As she spoke, I felt the whole
I recall sitting at lunch table one of the first days of Wildcat Welcome with a group of students I had just met, when one girl hesitantly brought up the topic of alcohol. She did not drink based on her moral values, and she was worried that she would be alone in her situation. As she spoke, I felt the whole