carltonlit&socsteptwo

I spent 30 minutes observing in the Scranton Commons on campus while eating lunch today. I noticed alot in my brief time observing about what things college students like to converse over at a meal. The first thing I noticed is that most students each lunch with a group of friends. Today I only saw one kid eating by himself in the section of the commons where I observed. The majority of the time I see groups of friends eating together. Is it wrong to eat alone? Do people frown about those who eat alone and see them as antisocial or unpopular? Those are the questions that came to my mind. And to add to it, the one kid who did sit by himself had a pair of headphones on and was listening to music while eating. Or was he? Were the headphones just a decoy so that it didnt seem awkward that he was alone? I am curious on how people view this. The students came into the room and put their stuff down to "reserve" the table where they wanted to sit. Then they headed to get food. The conversations I overheard during my lunch included topics on politics, partying, alcohol overdosing, minimum wage, babysitting for rich people, how poor college kids are, and the television show "pretty little liars". The complaining nature of the conversations led me to believe that college kids seem to be very negative towards things in this world. The conversations all seemed to focus on the negatives of things. It was sort of like listening to someone complaining for 30 minutes. "I can't believe Susan drank half of that bottle of tequila last night", one girl stated. Another girl chips in, "Oh I know, isn't that like dangerous to like drink that much." That was a segment of a conversation that I overheard. That is a very common dinner topic here at Boozeburg. In fact, that's all I hear about everywhere I go on campus. Hmm...is that all college students care about?