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First, sports. The most popular sport is ice hockey -- that's the one people will line up for with tickets and things. A lot of people go to the homecoming football game, but that's pretty much it. Sports aren't all that huge on campus, but I think that's fine... you can go to whatever games you want to and you'll find a small, loyal crowd of followers. Even though Cornell might not be the most sport-oriented school as far as spirit goes, there's a tremendous amount of school pride, and everyone loves proclaiming their love for the Big Red Bear, for wearing all red, and for being Cornellians. The dorms are all sort of different... Donlon is a social dorm, Dickson is a big, social dorm full of singles, Court-Kay-Bauer and Mews are the newest and prettiest and are slightly, slightly less social but still very friendly, and I don't know too much about the other ones. I met all my besties in my hall; we do everything together, whether that's going to see a Bhangra show, watching a movie, going out, eating dinner together, everything! On the weekends, people pretty much party. Study a bit in the day, party at night. I've done it a couple times, but I usually take the more relaxed route -- watch a movie with friends, play Bananagrams, sit around and talk and watch youtube videos and listen to music. There's always a lot of stuff to do in the community centers and at Willard Strait Hall (where they always have free popcorn, by the way) and there are groups that get together to do sober things and have fun and be happy. There's no pressure either way, people just do what they want to do, and there are plenty of people to do whatever that is with you.

There are hundreds of clubs, and if it doesn't exist, you can create it. There shouldn't be a concern of "what's popular" since almost everyone has a different thing they're interested in. I am part of the Big Red Marching Band, and its been one of the most positive experiences here. Most of my friends are from the band, and the regularly organize parties for members. The drinking on campus isn't that bad. I have never found a large social pressure to drink. I think drinking at Cornell is somehow heavily exaggerated by the high number of fraternity houses present, but greek life is by no means the dominant social scene.

There are hundreds of clubs, and if it doesn't exist, you can create it. There shouldn't be a concern of "what's popular" since almost everyone has a different thing they're interested in. I am part of the Big Red Marching Band, and its been one of the most positive experiences here. Most of my friends are from the band, and the regularly organize parties for members. The drinking on campus isn't that bad. I have never found a large social pressure to drink. I think drinking at Cornell is somehow heavily exaggerated by the high number of fraternity houses present, but greek life is by no means the dominant social scene.

There are clubs for everything. I'll rep Concert Commission and Program Board, which bring performing artists (like B.o.B, Lupe Fiasco, K'naan, Passion Pit, and Girl Talk) and speakers/comedians (like John Stewart, Aziz Ansari, and Keith Olbermann) respectively. Greek life is very popular; I'd say around a third of people are in frats or sororities. However, you don't need to be in one to have fun, or to go out. A lot of people go out and party on Thursday, Friday, and the weekends, but many don't. I don't know, you can really do whatever you want.

There are clubs for everything. I'll rep Concert Commission and Program Board, which bring performing artists (like B.o.B, Lupe Fiasco, K'naan, Passion Pit, and Girl Talk) and speakers/comedians (like John Stewart, Aziz Ansari, and Keith Olbermann) respectively. Greek life is very popular; I'd say around a third of people are in frats or sororities. However, you don't need to be in one to have fun, or to go out. A lot of people go out and party on Thursday, Friday, and the weekends, but many don't. I don't know, you can really do whatever you want.

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The student life is really active. There are tons of student organizations and events going on. There is a great new website at Cornell called omgFreeFood (www.omgfreefood.com) which shows a lot these events happening on campus (especially those events offering free food).

Tons of activities, programs, and clubs on campus. Really fun traditions (e.g. Slope Day, Dragon Day,Battle of the Late Night Foods, Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras Dinners, etc.). Residence halls usually have a number of unique events. People seem to party and drink every single weekend (but I don't!). If not, its common to hang out in each other's dorm rooms or at the mall.

CallbaXX a cappella sings under an archway on North Campus to a crowd of people returning from their first prelims.

Fraternities and sororities. The theather arts is another world all together and it is very competitive in of itself.