The Namesake Post A # 3

Gogol now attends Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, a moderately far distance away from home. I am not sure if what is described next is the typical college life at Yale, but I do know that the lifestyles at Indian colleges are vastly different than those of American colleges. He has two roommates, (which is not the different part), Jonathan and Brandon. After the three of them get their items unpacked, Brandon asks Nikhil (because that is what he tells him his name is) if he wants to smoke a bowl. Gogol grows a goatee, starts smoking cigarettes at the parties around campus, and starts having sex. I guess that growing a goatee doesn't really have much to do with difference between lifestyles, that is just personal preference. What does have to do with it is the amount of sex, drugs, and hard partying. In India, the smarter students are, the more driven they are, as well. It seems that in America, if students are super smart, they take advantage (in a bad way) of their intelligence, and just degrade themselves, because they can get away with it. It seems that Gogol has fallen a little bit into that category.