While this is no life altering
event or change of mind, the situation I am about to explain is a situation
that everyone can probably relate to.
When I first came to college, I was very against drinking alcohol. I was always taught in high school that
alcohol made you stupid and that you just shouldn’t even consume it. My mom has about one to two glasses of wine a
night and my dad doesn’t drink at all—coming into college I had my priorities
set straight about the parties I would attend and my no-drinking policy. Obviously as so many other college students
come to realize, attitudes change.
Though I was very against drinking, I attended swim team parties with my
friends where my teammates drank and were having a good time. I didn’t have a high ego-involvement in this attitude
because I saw that my friends were having fun and it wasn’t killing them (they
were acting pretty stupid though).
Through assimilation my position on alcohol changed. My friend told me, “You don’t have to go
crazy drinking. Just try it and drink in
moderation. It’s fun, you just have to
be smart about it.” This message was
close to my latitude of acceptance and seemed very reasonable to me (Griffin,
Ledbetter & Sparks, 2015).
I think everyone can probably
relate to this story—my brother is a senior in high school and felt the exact
same way I did. He did a visit at
Cortland (the school he wants to attend) and stayed over- night with the swim
team as a recruit. I think his attitude
about drinking has changed as well, which is very strange to think about. I think it’s interesting how attitudes can
change from one opposite of the spectrum to the other; my brother was totally
adamant that he didn’t want to drink when he goes to college, but he now sees
the contrast of the attitudes and has completely changed his attitude.
References
Griffin, E. A., Ledbetter, A.,
& Sparks, G. (2015). A first look at
communication theory (9th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
picture from: https://www.ucribs.com/blog-post/15-tips-for-the-college-freshman/
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