Coop gorges on his college adventures!

one of the things that people do up here for fun is completely unorthodox and insane, its called gorge jumping. basically an individual will happily throw themselves off of a Cliff into the Valley below, hopefully the person is diving into water, but even still your safety is not guaranteed. there are several beautiful gorges in the area, and this makes for several places for idiots to jump from. one gorge i visited was filled with such idiots. there are places in the gorge that get the most jump traffic, the heights are; 15, 25,40, 60 and 80 feet, and there are people who jump at all of those heights. i jumped in at 15 feet into water so cold it could make the empire state building shrink, i swam around, and made it back to land. the entry platform was slightly more crowded than the jumping locations, and when i got out of the water i noticed 2 naked men sunbathing around 200 or so college kids, no one seemed to notice but me, but i guess it was one of those things that everyone knew about but no one wanted to discuss like a bad haircut, or an unsightly zit. i walked with my friends to the slightly higher jump of 25 feet, after i inspected it and decided that i wanted to pass, i sat and watched my friends fall one by one in to frigid water, one friend however, landed strangely on the platform where people jump from and broke her feet, yes feet. she went in to the water some time after that, because after you are on the jumping platform, its a one way ticket. she made it to dry land and proceeded to hop and crawl back up to civilization, it was a sad site to see, so i fetched her a stick to use as a cane, and she now moved with the efficiency of an eighty year old mountain climber. after about five minutes of moving or ten feet, some kids who happened to be in premed programs came and inspected her injuries, and told her not to walk. i laughed quietly to myself because i wondered how many thousands of dollars they spend towards tuition, in order to be taught to say to a girl with obviously broken feet “don’t walk on it”. they volunteered to give her a piggy back ride up the hills and to the doctors office. it’s a shame because the girl was a great cheerleader.
other than gorge jumping i have attended some crazy college parties. i have discovered that they are not parties but great ways to extort Bored freshmen into paying 5 bucks for a stamp on their hand that grants them admission into a room with music that is too loud, people that are too sweaty , and beer that is too warm, it’s not exactly my style. the business however is interesting, they have bars set up that suck away peoples cash in exchange for a drink, and do you know what they call this kind of an event? ….. a fund raiser. i think i will live off campus next year and have some fund raisers of my own. there are other kinds of party’s that don’t charge admission and are people hanging out, and there is room for your elbows. this is my style and is quite the time. other than these drinking hall environments there are other kinds of gatherings that form. this one is less formal, and often forms accidentally. it will happen when 2 people are playing music in the grassy knoll areas around school, some people will walk by and join sometimes bringing there own instruments, or sometimes bringing hookah tobacco pipes. Ithaca has a wonderful music program so often the music that is played is super fine. this is also my style.
lastly i think i had swine flu, it could be my hypochondria, or it could be me just trying to follow the trendy disease of the season, but i was out of class for a day so that i could recover. my health is good now and i think i am going to make it. i think i like it here, and maybe sometime soon will be calling it home.