I think what he's saying (if I understood correctly), is that you are misunderstanding the phrase, "It's not what you know, but who you know". I'm pretty sure meeting other party-crazy, drunk-happy, frat boys does not qualify for the underlining meaning of that particular phrase.

I took that saying very seriously in choosing my college, so I picked a college that took pride in having all it's professors CURRENT working professionals in the fields they taught. I went to The School of Visual Arts in NYC, and every one of my professors were nearly famous in their chosen fields. Basically, your professors were your contacts - our "foot in the doors", if you will. I got my first job as a digital compositor at Psyop Inc. because my professor of one of my courses was the lead flame artist at their production house; he also happened to be the Lead Rotoscope Artist for most of Peter Jackson's recent films. So I suppose I lucked out.

Not going to a "party school" or using your first two years to do nothing but get so wasted you can't remember what you did that night (nor any of the answers to the next day's biology exam), does not mean you won't be having fun or making any friends. I did not go to a known "party school", nor am I that type of person, but I made plenty of friends, and had plenty of fun socializing in non-getting-plastered-getting-laid-college type of way.