“Seriously, I felt less peer pressure to drink as an undergraduate at a state university with a legitimately terrible reputation as a party school — our campus was closed multiple times due to alcohol-fueled riots — than I have as a professional in corporate settings.”

“Which brings us to the question of how best to deal with being the anomalous adult who, by choice, steers clear of the ever-expanding world of “alcoholification.” I say “by choice” because I don’t have any good reason or excuse that stops people in their tracks.”