Nathalie's Blog

I interviewed 5 people and asked them the following questions:  1. What are your thoughts on binge drinking? 2. Do you believe that any certain groups are more likely to exhibit binge-drinking behavior? Wanted to see if they would include themselves in that group.  3. Have you ever binged drinked? That can mean different things to different people, but in your mind do you think you have? 4.Have you seen other binge drink before? In what scenarios? Be specific please. 5.Why do you think people binge drink? 6.A good way to tell if you can handle another drink without passing out or being too reckless is by checking your BAC levels. If checking your BAC levels were more convenient and easy at bars/clubs, would you check it?  Sarah, age 28, graduate student, and goes out drinking every once and a while. Sarah told me that she absolutely believed that binge drinking isn ’t a healthy activity to partake in and that she doesn ’t understand why undergrads now ca

The following is the opportunity that I will be working on this semester: College students in the US have difficulty assessing their alcohol level and are increasingly appearing in hospitals after binge drinking because they lack the tools and knowledge to drink responsibly.  Binge drinking is becoming a major problem in the United States especially within colleges. With frat parties, festivals, tailgating, clubs, bars, and other social events that are known to have alcohol, students are at risk of going to hospitals for binge drinking. Whether they binge drink because of peer pressure, wanting to relive stress, or wanting to 'get loose', people are putting themselves and possibly others in danger. The lack of knowledge and tools aid in the alarming rates of hospital visits related to severe intoxication.   The solution that I came up for this problem is to create an ‘arcade game’ where people will insert money into an arcade machine and then will be required to pl

1.   College students in the US have difficulty assessing their alcohol level and are increasingly appearing in hospitals after binge drinking because they lack the tools and knowledge to drink responsibly.  2.   The who : college students in the US        The what : they have difficulty assessing their alcohol level and are increasingly appearing in hospitals after binge drinking         The why : lack the tools and knowledge to drink responsibly 3.   Testing the boundaries: •    Who : Binge drinking does not only affect college students. Studies have shown that people ages 18-34 are the ones who participate in this type of drinking the most. I think that college students have more of a need for a solution because they are still relatively young at this time of their lives and do not have the experienced knowledge that other older people might have.  •    What : Not every college student has difficulty assessing their alcohol level and are responsible drinkers. There