Re The Hook Up Culture

The essay "The Hook Up Culture" discusses college relationships, or lack there of.  The author discusses an absence of college students actually dating and how alcohol influences peoples ability to date.  Although there were many well made points, it was a very generalized idea.  While it may seem that everyone is just randomly fooling around with strangers when intoxicated, college opens the dating door for many people.  Most people in high school don't go out on dates.  Instead high school is filled with relationships.  You're boyfriend and girlfriend because you hang out in school rather than going out to movies and dinner and getting to know one another.  It is more common in college to just ask someone out on a single date rather than to go steady.  The alcohol isn't the only reason people hook up randomly.  College gives people a new idea of freedom.  People think they can and should do whatever feels good and there won't be any consequence.  Having a room to go to without parents gives people a lot more personal freedom, especially when their roommate has the same mindset.  While a lot of people in college to get drunk and randomly hook-up with people and parties, the art of dating is not completely lost.