What's to learn with partying skills? Pace yourself drinking instead of doing it all at once, holding your alcohol better. And learning to seek out friends you belong with rather than those whom you dream of being with for all kinds of reasons. This is by no means to say that you stick with a certain niche group and don't try to widen your horizens; quite the contrary. That's one of the great benefits of this university, diversity of international and ethnic backgrounds, though it is becoming less diverse in terms of economic background.