Good Times 101
College Students Make a Study of Having Fun
By Laura Sessions Stepp
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Excerpt: "First of all, the students made a distinction between fun with no purpose and fun with a purpose. Fun with no purpose, said one student, was "kicking a soccer ball around with a friend for the first time and not paying attention to rules." It was, according to Wambeam, "mirthful diversion." Fun could have a purpose, the students said, as long as the purpose wasn't serious. So a game of intramural soccer with little at stake could be fun, but playing varsity soccer with the school's reputation on the line might not be. " the rest