College students are often classified as "party animals", but these students are mostly under the legal drinking age when they start college. Students drink under the legal age; therefore, they must accept adult consequences in an attempt to take adult actions. Lowering the drinking age would demonstrate how easily our government is persuaded to choose sides on controversial issues. If the drinking age were lowered, student grades would begin to drop and student dropout rates would increase dramatically. Students of this generation have many distractions that take them away from fully focusing on school; therefore, if the age were lowered, students would only worry about the next party instead of the next class. Additionally, excessive amounts of alcohol have been shown to kill vital brain cells, and brain cells do not replicate like other cells in the body. The brain is not fully developed until age twenty-one, so an eighteen-year-old should not be killing off brain cells needed for daily communication and decision making. For students to excel, they need minimal stress and minimal distractions. Alcohol will only increase stress and distractions, so students should refrain from any type of alcohol-related activity. Keeping the drinking age at twenty-one will result in greater success and responsibility