My name is Alyx.

I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, or have sex. I want to believe that I don't need to do any of these to have a good time.

But college has made it hard. I feel like there aren't many people here that consider me a real friend because I don't do these things with them. I'll go out with the smokers and drinkers, but sit there in my sobriety, feeling alone and out of place. In the times I choose not to go with them, I spend my free time alone in my dorm room, cleaning up the empty alcohol cans and bottles from the floor - none of them are ever mine. Most times, I'm never invited to do anything with anyone because everyone knows that I'm so boring.

Every day, every night, there's always cigarettes and alcohol. Every day, I feel more and more alone.

I love Ringling. I love college. And I refuse to give in to peer pressure.
I just wish people tried to get to know me better as a person, not a stick in the mud.