I had communion wine from a young age, had a few beers at 18, and met my friends who got me into drinking at 20. They convinced me to skip my film class and go drink with them; I had about 7 or 8 drinks over the course of 2 hours and just started to feel it.
The first time I got drunk was at a campus activities conference when I was still 20. The one guy who was 21 and the guy with the fake ID bought us booze and we went back to the hotel where we had rooms on the 7th floor and our adviser (who was a very liberal Mormon who knew what we'd be up to) was in his room on the 13th. Long story short, I had 9 shots of vodka, 9 shots of Jack, 3 Smirnoff Ices, then went down to the lobby to sober up and met some nice people who gave me 3 cups of homemade wine. While student government advisers from other schools were busting up parties and telling people they could be kicked out of school, ours called us around noon (missing the morning educational sessions) and told us to be in the lobby by 2:00 so we could go out for lunch.
I've been quite the drinker ever since.
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