Clubbing is a nightmare after freshman year.

Some may say the quintessential Freshman year experience is finding yourself at a promoter's table at Up&Down or Gilded Lily in the wee hours of the night, drinking free alcohol with your pals, and soaking up the scenery. Soon, you become jaded, tired of wearing those painful sky-high heels and that old tight dress just to be let in to sip on a watered down tequila soda. Fear not, you'll quickly discover there are so many places to go to, hidden and known, that don't involve a mean bouncer. It gets better, hang in there.

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