State Patty's Weekend
Once February hits, State Patty's weekend is all Penn State students are talking about. For those that don't know of what this is, this is the weekend that Penn State students celebrate St. Patricks day since this holiday usually falls during the Penn State students' spring break. This holiday is especially well known at Penn State for people to get extremely drunk starting friday night all the way through Sunday night. There are always many different guest students who come up for the weekend from various universities nearby. Last year most of these students ended up getting too drunk and there were many cases of alcohol poisoning. To avoid that this year the university imposed a one guest rule in dorms and said that fraternities weren't allowed to have any parties on the Saturday of State Patty's weekend.
When asked about why many of the alcohol poisoning cases were usually non Penn Staters most Penn State students replied by saying that other school kids can't handle Penn State partying. This is exactly the type of stereotype that this meme is portraying. With the image that shows someone so drunk that they've fallen out of their chair and text that reads "an average state college weekend with no football" this meme basically sends the message that Penn State students are can handle State Patty's weekend type of drinking every weekend. This meme portrays the basic Penn State partying image and proves that Penn State students handle their liquor better than most other college students.
I think this meme portrays how important football is to the university and without it students are a bunch of functioning alcoholics. Not saying that partying is not a bad thing, but I'm not sure this puts the school or the students in the best light.
ReplyDeleteIt is too bad that State Patty's was not all that it was cracked up to be this year. In many respects, that was probably the best thing because from what I heard that in recent years cars could not even drive on College Ave because it got so crowded from people partying outside of the bars. I would like to have the true experience of something like this at some point in my life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Matt that this meme shows how much football is to this school. Since there are no current games, students participate in day-long drinking on State Patty's. I too feel almost "cheated" out of a real State Patty's day this year but I think that by curving the drinking our school's repuation is a little better off.
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