I'm not really sure how much drinking is "the usual college thing". It certainly seems like it is to me, but I wonder if that's just my perception, because I don't drink that much and neither do most of my friends, or because the people who do drink a lot are louder about it.
Anyway, my perception of the college drinking culture is that it's not all that appealing, anyway. I enjoy alcohol, but for medical reasons I never drink enough to feel much effect from it at all, so all the drinking that I do is purely social in nature, which is nice -- I drink when the friends I'm with are also drinking (very rare -- I suspect my friends are somewhat like yours), and thus I enjoy it because it's a social activity (and because I like the taste of the things I drink). I would feel very weird about drinking alone, or drinking from a desire to get drunk. So, basically, I don't think your attitude towards alcohol is all that strange.
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Anyway, my perception of the college drinking culture is that it's not all that appealing, anyway. I enjoy alcohol, but for medical reasons I never drink enough to feel much effect from it at all, so all the drinking that I do is purely social in nature, which is nice -- I drink when the friends I'm with are also drinking (very rare -- I suspect my friends are somewhat like yours), and thus I enjoy it because it's a social activity (and because I like the taste of the things I drink). I would feel very weird about drinking alone, or drinking from a desire to get drunk. So, basically, I don't think your attitude towards alcohol is all that strange.