21st Birthdays

I love 21st birthdays. Now going into my senior year and a few months past my own night of shame, you'd think, like a lot of college students, that I'd be sick of those facebook invites of "So-and-so's finally 21! Pregame at (insert apt. here) then out to (insert DC bar that everyone goes to every 2 weeks anyways)!" No way.

If there's one thing college students know how to do, it's celebrate holidays. Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, St. Patrick's Day, Christmas season...they all make for great parties. And 21st birthdays are pretty much more holidays thrown in on random weekends throughout your college years. Two of my best friends turned 21 this past week, and I may have enjoyed the evenings more than them.

My one friend Katherine loves 21st birthdays so much that she has celebrated her 21st birthday for her past 3 birthdays! 

Like every other wonderful occasion in the world, there's the downside to 21st birthdays - your friends who are still under 21. Everyone has those friends whose parents had the brilliant idea to put them in kindergarten as young as possible and then they don't turn 21 until the fall of senior year. Like my friend Brendan, who is often called the "baby" (this is not just because of his age but also his complete lack of facial/body hair). However, the upside is that these usually make for the best birthdays of all because everyone can finally go out without worrying about some big bouncer on a power trip!