Art school is a playground with limited supervision. We smoked cigarettes in the studios, drank there, smoked weed in the classrooms after hours. I don't think anyone else had more fun in school. I majored in sculpture when I went back to finish my degree so we also played with fire, melted metal and used various industrial equipment. When I was a graphic design major things were a lot more sober. I had to deal with a lot of people with no talent or ambition who were in college because they were expected to be in college. My favorite story about one of these people was a girl who used the prompt love/hate to make a (bad) life sized plaster model of herself drinking milk with a bunch of empty milk jugs around it. She loved milk but she was lactose intolerant so that's what she came up with for the assignment. The movie Art School Confidential is good too. It seems ridiculous but art school is just that.
