I guess I'm the first scumbag to answer who has gotten a dui, so here goes:
I wasn't smart enough to stop at one, and I doubt you will be either. The reasons are very similar. You are arguing for your superior intelligence in the area of psychology- I also went to college for that and feel I am light years ahead of most. I am, but that's got nothing to do with the fact that when I drink, I can't control the quantity. It's simply NOT an intelligence issue, and the intelligent are actually at a disadvantage because of it. We think we're "smart enough" not to do it again, but if you were driving and still standing while blowing a .223. you have a HUGE tolerance, and that's extremely dangerous. You are very likely further along the alcoholic progression than you would like to believe. I had four duis, and my highest was 1.5. Your level, despite your excuses about time, is extraordinary, I hope you take it serious.
Sorry, I don't believe you at all that you "rarely drink". I hope you really have stopped since the incident.
AA and the meetings you have to attend really aren't that bad. I was creeped out at first, but I ended up learning so much good shit there that I stayed for almost eight years- I was only ordered by the courts for one. I'm comfortable not drinking now, and if the urge ever revisited me, I'd return in a heartbeat. You know very well that this was not the first time you'd driven drunk, and what right do you have to risk the lives of people you don't know on the road? I feel okay asking that, because I had to ask it of myself, and I decided I had no right. You don't either, and if you "had enough sense to stop" you wouldn't be here right now. Once again, it's not an intelligence question, it's one of chemical predisposition.
I know, you're not really an alcoholic. Those people live under bridges, they don't go to college and get good jobs helping others, do they? Not like you- no. They don't have families, pay taxes, try to be good citizens- not like you do. Bullshit! They got to AA JUST LIKE YOU, most of them. You'll be standing in a line of people after meetings who have to get a paper signed for the courts to prove they were there- just like you.
ALL of us have to endure the expense, embarassment, breathalizers on cars, loss of employment- ALL the same shit as you. You're not special, you don't deserve an easy out. You risked the lives of others, and you will continue to do so without a serious paradigm shift. I hope you get it, at your age, could could have a very long, wonderful life. Another decade of denial won't benefit you much in the long run, take it from someone who knows.