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Athletic events are attended based on the sport and the competition. Sometimes home Soccer and Lax games have a huge crowd of fans, but often other sports are less attended. Because there is no Greek life sports teams can take the place of this and host social events such as kegs. There are fairly limited activities on weekends at the beginning and middle of the semester and an overwhelming number near the end. Weekends for most Conn students involve getting drunk beyond functioning. Frequently, Thursday and Saturday for the average Conn students involves sitting around with friends drinking in somebodies dorm room, then going out and trying to hook up with random people. It's kind of pathetic. However, if students really try they can find stuff to do (this gets easier near the end of the semester). Off campus is pretty unexplored and usually students venture off campus to go to bars, drinking parties, visiting their distance significant other, or going home.

The most popular club would be the ski club and the most popular teams would be lacrosse team, basketball team, and sailing team. People in dorms leave their dorms open sometimes even after the string of robberies which occurred last semester. I met my closest friends through the dorm that I live in. People will party every night of the week if they could but most parties are confined to thursdays and saturdays. We do not have frats or sororities.

The social life is lacking because we are confined to campus and have no city or town to hang out in.

We have a very active social life because there are so many different clubs and activities. With 99{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of our students living on campus we have a uniquely close and active student body.

I am involved with dance club which is a really big and popular organization. Most of the student body, if they are not performing/dancing, have come to see at least one dance show in their four years at Conn. Sports teams are also pretty popular and a lot of people are involved in club sports. Hockey and lacrosse games are usually well attended. Thursday and Saturday nights are the big nights to party here and that usually involves drinking in a friends room or going to a keg and then ending up at the student center for a dance or late night piece of pizza. Frats and Sororities do not exist here which is really nice. Last weekend I went to the beach, did some homework and job searching and partied with friends.

sports teams-used to leave dorms open, things were stolen, many close doors. My closest friend is my roommate. I am awake on tuesday at 2am. I will be writing my essay.-floralia happens each year, so i hear.-people party on Thurs. and Sat.-we dont have frats or sororities.- work for a show.-i dont drink, all my fun is sober. I love to dance and play music and laugh with friends.- work and shop and eat.

there are no fraternities or sororities, but in some ways athletic teams act like greek organizations anyway thursdays and saturdays are party nights, but people are more likely to do quieter activities on fridays like go to a play or a concert

I met my closest friends through sports. Dating isn't really a big thing. It is more about the "hook-up". Some dorms have such great unity and leave their doors open and get together for dorm events such as cook-outs on the lawn, study breaks with pizza and sweets in the common room, movie and game nights, and such. The big party nights are Thursday and Saturday, but if you are of age, bar nights are Tuesday or Wednesday.

Getting involved definitely helps in terms of making friends. There are quite a few ways to get involved. Sports aren't too too competitive and if you don't make varsity there are lots of club and intramural teams. There is also student government which has quite a bit of say in things, SAC (student activities council), the judicial board, newspaper, investment club, dance club, etc. There's plenty if you are willing to try things out. Students here tend to party quite a bit, especially thursdays and saturdays (people rest on fridays), and the campus is wet. People are pretty good about working during weekdays. I've found that people that do not drink sometimes have a harder time adjusting though there are sub free dorms where everyone is super close. There is no greek life, however, and most parties are centered around kegs in common rooms or private parties. Around midnight people go to the student center (Cro), mingle, and go to a dance (there's one or two almost every weekend). The year culminates with Floralia which is a whole day of live bands, fun games, and intense drinking (campus police is relatively lenient, especially on floralia ... they'll usually tell you to poor your drink though rarely do more then give a slap on the hand). All in all the social life can get a bit monotonous at times and drinking definitely makes it more fun. What's nice though is that whenever you get tired of campus, New York, Boston, and Providence are pretty easy to get to since New London is right on the Amtrak.

The social life centers around athletic teams and events put on by the Student Activities Council. If you don't drink then don't come to Conn College because the social life especially on Thursdays and Saturdays is centered around getting wasted. Conn College doesn't have any fraternities or sororities so social events are limited. The Conn College dating scene is virtually nonexistent...it's all about drunken random hookups.