college

"Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic Dionysian-type reveling? It's not. College students are adolescents, and they're terrified, and they're dealing with their terror in a distinctly US way. Those naked boys hanging upside-down out of their frat house windows on Friday nights are simply trying to buy a few hours escape from the grim adult stuff that any decent school has forced them to think about all week"

- David Foster Wallace in Consider the Lobster