Sun Feb 18, 2001 8:17 pm
After my first taste of 'freedom', going to university and living on my own, I went nuts. starting maybe six months into my freshman year, I used it a LOT! Pot, acid, 'shrooms, X, coke (when I could get my hands on some), you name it, I did it (except heroin - never got near that stuff). I even did a lot of 'shopping runs' to Mexico (I was at University of Texas at Austin).
The result was my overall GPA in college went from a 3.57 down to about 1.5 in the space of a year. I was under the imminent threat of being kicked out of school, had lost all my good friends, having traded them in for fellow dopers, had sold my guitars and stereo, and was still broke all the time, is spite of working part time as a bus driver, getting nice union wages.
After I hooked up with a new girlfriend, she made me quit cold turkey, got myself a new bunch of friends, and got my grades back together, and ended up graduating a few years later near the top of my class. My girlfriend and I split ways rather badly after I graduated, but I will always owe her a lot for having dragged me out of that mess.
Charles