Campus Confidential
Traci Tyler
Issue date: 3/12/10 Section: Opinion
Spring break is finally here, and I can already smell the coconut oil and the mai tais. Or could, if I wasn't spending my break painting the nursery at my brother's house. However, for some of you the next week will hold all the fun and adventure that you can expect to find in your early 20s, with all the booze and loose morals seen on TV and in the movies.
Imagine the scene: beaches full of bikinis, nightclubs packed with sweaty, gyrating bodies - it will be as if you had somehow stepped right onto the set of "Jersey Shore," and the results will probably be just as classy. Let's face it - the temptations you face on a regular basis are likely going to be doubled, if not tripled, and your inhibitions are going to be out the window. A lot of stuff can happen.
Aside from the usual considerations, including pregnancy, disease and the possible end of long-term relationships as a result of a drunken misadventure, you have to remember that we live in a digital age. Everyone has a phone and a camera, and most people have the capability to capture video on these devices.
It's no longer a matter of happening to run into Joe Francis and the Girls Gone Wild crew - now anyone and everyone can capture you performing the most indecent acts in public, whether inebriated or just caught up in the moment. And thanks to YouTube or their more "adult" counterparts, your face and/or body, and more importantly, your indiscretions, can be uploaded to the Internet and viewed by anyone who happens upon them. Unfortunately, these things don't always work out like the sex tape incident in "National Lampoon's European Vacation."
Most of us are here at college to earn a degree that will help us advance ourselves in the professional world, whether in business, science, medicine, law or education. Most of us will work in the public sector, where our faces will be recognized and our actions will mark us, especially those of our past. I don't know about you, but I have a feeling that not many schools are going to hire a kindergarten teacher who was seen all over the Internet giving a blowjob to a stranger.
I urge you to have fun next week - in fact, have some for me as well, since I won't be doing anything overly exciting. Just remember that not only is Big Brother watching you, but the lenses of cameras of people you've never met are as well. Use some discretion; that is, unless you want your biggest recognition during college to be that the frat boys recognize you as "Sparkle Tits."
Imagine the scene: beaches full of bikinis, nightclubs packed with sweaty, gyrating bodies - it will be as if you had somehow stepped right onto the set of "Jersey Shore," and the results will probably be just as classy. Let's face it - the temptations you face on a regular basis are likely going to be doubled, if not tripled, and your inhibitions are going to be out the window. A lot of stuff can happen.
Aside from the usual considerations, including pregnancy, disease and the possible end of long-term relationships as a result of a drunken misadventure, you have to remember that we live in a digital age. Everyone has a phone and a camera, and most people have the capability to capture video on these devices.
It's no longer a matter of happening to run into Joe Francis and the Girls Gone Wild crew - now anyone and everyone can capture you performing the most indecent acts in public, whether inebriated or just caught up in the moment. And thanks to YouTube or their more "adult" counterparts, your face and/or body, and more importantly, your indiscretions, can be uploaded to the Internet and viewed by anyone who happens upon them. Unfortunately, these things don't always work out like the sex tape incident in "National Lampoon's European Vacation."
Most of us are here at college to earn a degree that will help us advance ourselves in the professional world, whether in business, science, medicine, law or education. Most of us will work in the public sector, where our faces will be recognized and our actions will mark us, especially those of our past. I don't know about you, but I have a feeling that not many schools are going to hire a kindergarten teacher who was seen all over the Internet giving a blowjob to a stranger.
I urge you to have fun next week - in fact, have some for me as well, since I won't be doing anything overly exciting. Just remember that not only is Big Brother watching you, but the lenses of cameras of people you've never met are as well. Use some discretion; that is, unless you want your biggest recognition during college to be that the frat boys recognize you as "Sparkle Tits."
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