Northeastern
University, Friday April 25th. The private research university,
located at the crossroads of the vivacious Back Bay and Mission Hill
neighborhoods in Boston, is full of bittersweet celebrations for the end of
finals week and many a “so long ‘til September” to classmates and friends.
It
is not uncommon for American students to celebrate to their fullest potential a
few more times before returning to their dreadful, sadistic, offensively
underpaying summer jobs chock-full of irate McDonald’s customers and obese
mothers-of-seven attempting to locate the grocery section at Wal-Mart.
It
seemed like any other final Friday of the semester before the campus cleared
out for summer session, but junior Samantha McCarthy was one exception: she
consumed alcohol at a party, without voluntarily notifying any non-present
friends via social media or texting.
A
2011 study conducted at The University of Washington in Seattle concluded that
98.4 percent of white female American college students “find it ‘highly
important to imperative’” to let friends know that they are consuming alcohol.
Said the Communications major, “I don’t know what happened. Normally, I text
all my friends, send Snap Chat videos, and tweet about it. I just literally
like to tell everyone I can. And I usually call a couple friends to tell them
that I’m drinking. But this time, I just didn’t feel like it, you know? Like, I
literally didn’t even.”
McCarthy
underwent psychiatric evaluation at the university’s Health and Counseling
Services the following Monday. The psychiatrist could not be reached for
comment.
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