Drinking culture does not top my list of things to love about college. But I appreciate the naked face of drinking at
Waseda. I went to quite the drinking party last night. We drank outside in the cold, sitting on tarps draped along the sidewalk outside of Okuma Meeting Hall at Nishi-Waseda. There's something about public intoxication set against polyethylene tarps that's simply homeless-chique. But for paying only 500 yen, I haven't really earned the right to complain. And it was still cool to meet new people.
I asked a Japanese friend later if the whole 'drinking on cement like hobos thing' was normal. He told me, it's not a Japanese thing. It's a Waseda thing. Hmmm. I might buy that. In America, college drinking culture is something tolerated but not endorsed by universities. I respect Waseda's honesty, they don't stop at simple toleration, they institutionalize their support for it.
For example. I've eaten at the Garden House Cafeteria at school a handful of times. But how the hell did I miss the fact that the cafeteria sells Corona beer the last five times I went there? Also, the Kirin brand benches outside the cafeteria seemed to have escaped my trained observation.
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