I confess that now that I’m in college, I kind of want to try:
- Get a tattoo
- Try weed
- Have a bit of fun with the opposite gender.
Fortunately, my fear of pain and regret are a pretty great barrier from doing something stupid 
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The annoying ones are the ones that keep repeating themselves
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As a public service, I will assess these activities for all people facing the same question
- Get a tattoo
High risk of living with regret on this one. Medium risk of getting a result that is not to your liking. Reasonable person assessment: don’t do it.
- Try weed
Will likely open up social relationships where you can talk utter nonsense but it will feel like you are being insighful. Good chance a portion of those people will be fuckheads. Small chance of it causing real issues (motivation, depression, poor judgement, addiction, potential more serious ones). Small chance of issues with the law (most likely this will be a caution)
Reasonable Person Assessment: Try it and assess your response. Monitor your ongoing reliance on it.
- Have a bit of fun with the opposite gender.
High chance of disappointed (
), depending on your judgement, chance of enjoyable experience. High chance of drama,. potential for heart break, low chance of serious versions of these.
Depending on your efforts to protect yourself, high to minimal chances of an sti - if exposed some chance you’ll get one that will hang around your entire life (including one that cry and poops itself )
Not sure what kids are like these days, I assume this behaviour has been shamed out now but depending on your level of fun, some chance of carrying around stigma.
Reasonable Person Assessment: Stick with the golden rule, be honest in dealings with people and use your judgement on how good others will be at doing the same and you’ll be okay. Always doubt your judgement when alcohol or drugs are involved and always be safe.
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Noted.
- Stay away from needles
- be wary of the police (or take a trip to California)
- use protection
- don’t combine the second wish with the third one
Sound about right? 
“Pro tip” for this: do not try a 50 mg edible your first time
Ff: the school made a policy that new work can’t count against you till school ends. Because of this- I can’t really be fucked to do a paper
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You’re lucky… There’s been at least 3 times where I completed an assignment, only to find out my professor simplified it or removed it AFTER I’d already spent a good amount of effort on it
If you ever consider a job with a security clearance requirement, I would very much advise against drug usage.
I advise against it in general, but in terms of regrets, that is what I would bring up.
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Yes.
Very few women (girls/women, I dunno. I’m going with girls at this point) make it out of their newfound independence stage without a tattoo of a butterfly or flower somewhere relatively discrete.
Just not the face. Why do kids go straight to sleeves and face tats now?
Ftr. I have no tattoos.
Don’t get preynit. There’s really only one way to get preynit.
I’ve never gotten preynit either.
Not that I’m a point of reference or anything, but don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. 
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I was thinking about getting “made in China” at the base of my neck… but, I’m told it hurts like hell and it would mean having to skip a couple of squat days 
good point… and this
I can barely handle 30mg caffiene, probably don’t want to risk anything
Maybe on the bottom of your foot.
My brother said to me in front of her that his wife had one that said “Made in Taiwan” on the bottom of hers, and she laughed pretty hard about it as she beat the crap out of him.
I just took his word for it. No way I was gonna check after that. 
hmmm… walking 20-30k steps a day has practically turned my heel into a large callous… so… 
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It didn’t hurt Bill Clinton. Just don’t inhale.
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My uncle’s friend actually does have a “Made in Thailand” tattoo. Pretty funny.
@anna_5588 - my personal advice if you HAD to pick one of those 3 to do would be to smoke weed.
Get it from someone your friends get it from or whatever and just go to someone’s house or dorm or whoever you’re comfortable with. Most people don’t completely lose control of themselves off of pot but just be around safe people in a safe place…to be safe. I got high for the first time at a music festival in a big city surrounded by strangers. Not a great move. Kinda fun though.
Keep it to a misdemeanor amount, not a felony amount, don’t drive, and don’t carry around a grinder, pipe, etc. as that’s all paraphernalia.
Just to be safe! I’m not recommending you do it, but if you had to pick one, I’d go with that. Very little chance of any permanent damage happening. That being said, most people who smoke weed smoke too much. Being a stoner might not lead to serious addiction but it’s not cool.
You seem smart enough to know all this though.
Tattoos are permanent and just seem pretty trendy amongst our age group right now…I’d hold off till you know what you really want. I’ve got some ideas but I’m still trying to social distance.
Sex is overrated. Especially when there’s no feelings beyond lust involved. (In my opinion.)
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Did you do this?
I ate my first edible a couple weeks ago. 50mg. 3 hours went by and I wasn’t feeling anything, so I ate another one and still, for the entire night, didn’t feel anything. I’d expected to eat a second one and get absolutely stoned when it finally impacted me but nope, nothing.
I was FAST company in the Marines, prior to infantry. Secret clearance, used marijuana possibly thousands of times prior to enlisting and admitted it during boot camp when I was being screened to be an 8th and i Marine (presidential guard). You’re not going to get a Yankee White Clearance - the clearance required for presidential guard - with drug usage, since the background check costs a ton of money, but marijuana use is absolutely not disqualifying you from a ton of jobs with security clearances.
I do generally figure that people are better off never trying drugs, especially given my history with them, but there are a lot of misconceptions out there, a large one being that the people in government with security clearances haven’t smoked weed. More people have tried weed than haven’t tried it.
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A lot of them have used drugs.
They just didn’t get caught. (arrested)
Don’t get a tattoo.
Do try the others.
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You CAN definitely get a clearance with prior usage and being honest about it, but you can also be denied it, which is what makes it suck. And as you noted: it can limit levels. And depending on the kind of person you are, it may be uncomfortable to have to admit to usage to a future employer. This became relevant with me seeing employers decline a prospect specifically for drug use.
I just never found drugs worth it.
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With all the jokes about “Made in China” flying around, you sure you wanna get one though?
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Sending classified e-mails on gmail didn’t hurt his wife either, but many aren’t as lucky, haha.
I’m genuinely surprised at people advocating drugs and saying don’t get a tattoo. I got a tat at 19 and would honestly have more if I didn’t meet my wife young and marry into a family that thinks poorly of them. From a philosophical standpoint, I don’t see a tattoo as being any more permanent as using drugs, in that, specifically, upon using drugs, you permanently change yourself from someone that has never used drugs to someone that has. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle there. The only difference with the tattoo is that other people can see your bad decision: assuming it’s somewhere visible.
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