Word: tequilas
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Mind you, she won't ask you things you actually know from being at college, such as what happened in last week's episode of The Simpsons or how many gulps of tequila it is humanly possible to swallow while two people are dangling you from your legs and the rest of the crowd at the party is counting out your sips in drunken unison. She will grill you on topics you know nothing about such as which classes to take or where to open a bank account...
...anal pre-meds who band together to study for their organic chemistry finals. There are also final clubs for microbiology, physics and government, though the government ones tend to involve a lot more noise and people dangling you from your legs while you are trying to sip tequila from a glass on the floor...
Remorseless drinking has long been as much a ritual of university life as football, final exams and frat parties. Almost every college graduate can spin at least a few tales about a boisterous night of carousing that culminated in slugging shots of tequila at sunrise or tossing drained kegs into the president's pool. Even Thomas Jefferson had to contend with a group of drunken rowdies who caused a near riot at the school that he founded, the University of Virginia. Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile...
...colleagues are convinced that Jeffrey Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles, never sleeps. Ressner ranges tirelessly from the executive suites of Burbank and the sound stages of Culver City to the tables down at Mortons and Spago. He has knocked back rounds of tequila with Oliver Stone, strolled the wild streets of Amsterdam with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and watched as many as five movies in a day. "He's the Jerry Rice of the Hollywood beat," says Jordan Bonfante, chief of our Los Angeles bureau. "Like the San Francisco 49er wide receiver, he'll catch anything...
...Harvard Provision Co., the clerk--a recent Harvard graduate who refused to reveal his name--says: "As for liquor, we sell a lot of Jim Beam, Cuervo Extra Gold Tequila, Smirnoff's, Gordon's, Bacardi... cheap, high-proof...