#sitsit

Alkoholia ei enää...

I signed up to go to the National Meeting of English Students in Vaasa next month as part of the contingent from my uni. A lot of student academic subject organizations do an annual convention thing like this, which is mostly a huge sleepover party weekend and which invariably includes a sitsit and pub crawl / sauna night. And a couple of lectures just to make it nominally "academic". The different unis usually take turns hosting each year. I'm not even really an English major but I argue that I study English linguistics, so I have a membership for the English students organization here. Anyway, I couldn't make it to the equivalent event for Translation students (I kinda wanted to network) because of other things, so this is my last chance to go to one of these student convention things so I can write about it for Things That Are Different in Finland. A bunch of my Facebook friends were teasing me for planning to skip the sitsit. I mean, if there were a way to observe one without participating, I totally would. But since by being there you are kind of obliged to participate, I'd rather spend the time doing something else that I'd enjoy, like geocaching around town. I'm getting better at ignoring that kind of "but parties are the bestest/you're missing out!" teasing, but I don't think it'll ever completely stop bothering me. (When I was an engineering freshman some older students (girls (!)) were vocal of the attitude that if I didn't enjoy party drinking (I didn't and still don't) then I would "learn" to as an engineering student. Eff that crap.)