watching overcompensating

Whenever a show comes out about the college experience, I feel like I have to watch it to compare it to my own life. As someone who didn't have a traditional high school nor college experience, whenever these obscenely raunchy and wild shows throw me off. 

I am entering my fourth year of college, and while yes, I have had some crazy days (and nights), it never seems the same as how it actually goes during these trying times. 

Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy the how, and I've almost watched the entire show in one day (currently on episode 6/8, and I don't know what I'm gonna do when it's over). I also didn't have the classic freshman in college experience. I went to community college for my first two years, and no one is getting wet and wild at community college. 

There's nothing wrong with this path either: some people are just going to college to get in and out, and that's fine. But I would never be able to imagine myself getting completely shitfaced off of two 40s and five pot brownies just to end up in an ambulance with cut up hands from shattered glass because I forgot I was playing Edward 40hands.

I'm not even twenty one years old, yet I'm still stuck wondering if I am missing out on something that seemingly everyone else went through. 

It doesn't bother me that I'm missing out, but I am genuinely curious what has changed in the past few years to make it seem like no one is partying as hard as they used to, maybe for better or for worse. 

This is also why I think there is such an appeal to early 2000s/2010s aesthetics that revolve around a messy but chic party girl. Indie sleaze, McBling and Tumblr aesthetics are making the rounds again, all which romanticize aspects of living life the messy way: day old eyeliner smudged under your eyes, wearing patterns layered over each other and constantly running late for every single errand in your life. 

Yeah, this doesn't fly in 2025. There's simply no time for something like this to flourish the way it is. That is, unless we fully enter an economic recession...then maybe we really can turn back to the ancient scriptures. 

It honestly scares me to think about the future of the job market and how we as a generation are going to make it in the real world. It only seems like things are getting worse for upcoming college graduates (yay!!)

All of this ranting just to get completely distracted from the original reason I wanted to write this: Overcompensating! This show is good, but not in the way I would expect. It's real, raw and it doesn't feel like the writer didn't go to college and is trying to imagine what it's about. 

I am looking forward to finishing the show, and maybe I'll even write an update about it when I'm finished. Until next time, cheers!