(#4) Penn State Party School

After listening to the podcast about Penn State, I couldn't help but laugh. I found it humorous that people were walking around with stop signs, peeing wherever they felt necessary, and taking cover in the local residents homes after a late night of drinking. Obviously these things sound immature and childish to most people, but to those who have experienced college and found themselves a couple beers deep know exactly where these crazy kids heads are at. All and all I thought this podcast displayed a very true, but unfortunate side of Penn State students. Sure we like to cut loose on the weekends and partake in shenanigans will almost for certain be regretted at a later date, however through all of this negativity, our true colors sometimes fail to shine through all the crap. First and for most, we are Penn State STUDENTS. We slave over a mess of books and papers, monday through friday, week after week just trying to maintain that GPA that runs our lives. It's very easy to overlook the effort we put into our school work when someone only sees what happens on the weekends. Looking back on the podcast, for the most part, I wasn't angry, but I did feel misunderstood. I hate to be associated with a negative connotation just because one year my college voted itself the number one party school. This to me is the epitome of judging a book by its cover. One of the first things we learn is not to base one's character off of how their outside appears. Get to know them and you might be surprised. Yet situations such as this continue to occur. What I found to be pretty amazing about the pod cast was the narrators voice. In the beginning, the narrator had a very condescending voice, as though they were going into this with the idea that Penn State was a bad place and they were just trying to bash the school. However, towards the end, you begin to notice that they are sympathizing with the college students and can't help but feel a commonality. Hopefully we never make the mistake of voting ourselves into that position again. It will be ten times worse the next time due to the more recent events having occurred here.