Staff writer: Kaelynne Miller
Once you receive a Minor in Possession, it becomes your identity. People see you as that and not for what you really are.
An MIP stays on your record for five years, but that’s not what teens are thinking about when they’re out partying and ingesting vodka and beer. I believe that if you choose to drink, you need to be more responsible or wait until you are 21 like everyone else.
Is it worth it to have colleges know what you did? Is it worth future employers second guessing hiring you? Is it worth having this blemish on your driving record? Many people don’t think about this when they start drinking under age.
People don’t realize that once you take a sip under 21, you are in danger of an MIP. Most think of it as a slap on the wrist and just don’t do it again, but that’s not the case.
If you get an MIP the summer before your senior year, like Hunter Currier ‘14 and Doug Stull ‘14, you start a process that won’t soon be over. It begins with fines, possible jail time, and after all that, you think it’s over, but it follows you to college.
Once you start the college process, most students will fill out financial aid, but with an MIP lingering you can get denied, so how do you even get money for college?
On almost every college form you fill out, you are asked if you have been charged with a felony or misdemeanor, and by checking yes, you lower your chances of that college wanting to pick you over other students.
Since an MIP stays on your record for five years, even after college finding a job can be just as hard, as most need to know about felonies. Currier expressed strong emotion and an explicitive or two about the effect it will have on job and college plans.
Stull and Currier both had to miss out on half of their season of football. The boys were very upset when that news came around, since this is their last season of being able to play.
Stull summed up how he felt about his MIP with two words: “Like s***”.