Friday night on College Avenue, people poured out of the Take Six Bottle Shop, 100 W. College Ave., in pairs with matching brown bags, holding their 40s to their chests. Loud expletives could be heard from all around to describe the rapidly dropping temperature.

The strains of Spider Kelly met the thumping bass travelling up the stairs from Players Nite Club. And Brad Yarzebinski (sophomore-industrial engineering) walked down the street in the bitter cold.

"I like the cold weather. The colder, the better," Yarzebinski said, without a coat and seemingly impervious to the below-freezing temperatures in his Five Iron Frenzy T-shirt.

Despite what the university-sanctioned posters tell you, there's plenty of evidence that most Penn State students see the weekends as yet another excuse to get a little liquored up. However, some students like Yarzebinski don't necessarily agree.

"I don't really drink," he said. "I mean, I'm not 21 yet, so I haven't really gotten into that."

Age isn't always a deterrent, but Yarzebinski, 20, says he just isn't a drinker. His biggest complaint is that his age sometimes keeps him away from the State College music scene.

"It does put kind of a damper on things, not being 21, but I guess I won't be able to tell what I'm missing until I actually turn 21," he said. "Hanging out with my friends is cool, I just generally do stuff with them. I guess if we all turn 21 around the same time, we'll all go together."

Heading eastward toward campus, Yarzebinski had just put in an appearance at a familiar State College landmark.

"I just came from The Diner," Yarzebinski said. "I was there with some friends, just chilling out. Now, I guess I'm probably gonna go see what's going on at the White Building with Late Night or go back and play my guitar in my dorm."

Yarzebinski weighed his options. He could go back to his room in Pollock Halls and rock out until he passed out, or head up to campus and scale the Velcro wall.

The Velcro wall, part of the LateNight Penn State activities at the HUB-Robeson Center, is an inflatable game with Velcro on it. Participants put on a Velcro suit and then jump up to stick to the wall.

Yarzebinski said that no matter what walls he was stuck to Friday night, he'd be coming back home to fool around with his new acquisition and hopefully wake up a few neighbors in the process.

"Actually, I just picked it up about a week ago," Yarzebinski said of his electric guitar. "I've wanted to learn for maybe ten years, and I've never had the chance. My friends have been pushing me because a couple of them play, and they told me they'd teach me, so I went ahead and bought one."

With the weekend after the first week of classes upon him, Yarzebinski doesn't seemed overwhelmed by his coursework just yet.

"It hasn't been too bad yet," he said. "The homework hasn't been stacking up or anything, but I'm sure it'll get there."

Now in his fourth semester, Yarzebinski says he has had plenty of time to enjoy State College's social scene.

"It's not bad. I haven't really visited any other campuses. I don't know what they're like, but I figure this is nice for what it is," Yarzebinski said. "I hear that there are 40,000 people here, but it doesn't really seem like it."

Yarzebinski said he enjoys the ability to stand out in a crowd as large as Penn State's, even amongst the people in his major.

"I'd say I'm probably more on the fringe, more out there as far as engineers go," Yarzebinski said. "I know a couple of pretty cool people, but I'm not the type who sits there and studies all the time."

And what did Yarzebinski have planned for the rest of the weekend?

"Probably not much," he said, with a laugh, then walked off into the freezing Friday night.