Thursday is also the big drinking night here at Morehead State in Kentucky.
Most of the students then go to their homes in Eastern Kentucky on Friday.
Some things don't change though. When I commented to a student at the library
about the partying beginning at about 10:00pm when I was in college, she said
it was about the same now.  In my senior year at St. Lawrence, I was in a
fraternity and drank at Phi Kappa Sigma events on Tuesday and Thursday while
getting "hammered" at the all-campus fraternity parties on Friday and
Saturday.  There was one stretch during my senior year where heavy drinking led
to two weeks of insomnia.  But I don't remember cutting back in response.  The
folklore on campus was that 20% of St. Lawrence graduates were alcoholics.  My
first roommate and a hallmate who grew up about 5 miles from me drank their way
out into flunking out by the end of their sophomore years.  Since then, I've
always had the impression that learning to be productive while being intensely
involved in leisure was one of the hoops that you had to jump through to
graduate from college.