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Usually I work late into the night, but there parties all over the place. The bars suck because they close at 1am, but there are tons of after parties. If you don't drink or smoke, you can still have fun at the many university-sponsored events. There are also many great outdoor activities - in the winter you can sled down the steep slopes surrounding campus; in the summer there are tons of gorges in which you can jump; there are biking trails, running trails, wineries, farmers markets, etc... If you ever get the opportunity to stay in Ithaca during the summer, you will love it.

There are a lot of activities around campus. I leave my door open usually, unless I am sleeping. My closest friends are within my suite n the suite down the hall. I met all of them during orientation week. People party pretty much every weekend.

There are always sober things to do around campus, and it is not difficult to find friends to have fun with if your definition of fun is not "get wasted!"

Greek life is huge here- there are a ton of sororities and fraternities that dominate the social life. Every weekend, the majority of students attend frat parties; drinking is pretty prevalent on campus. Athletic events are also extremely popular, especially hockey- everyone has tremendous pride and school spirit at these events!

The social life is great and the party scene is whatever you want it to be. There is something for everyone to do on the weekends no matter what your interests are. The collegetown bar scene is great, and frat parties are great for freshmen and sophomores. The social scene once you become Greek is the best.

I love the theater, we get some great performances.

Athletic events are not too popular except for hockey and lacrosse, and sometimes basketball. Some of the concerts and comedians that are brought in are AMAZING and tickets sell out really fast. Frats and sororities have their presence but because I'm not involved in them and very few of my friends are, I have not felt their impact much. Slope Day is a major event on the last day of classes each spring, with a huge free concert on the slope, and mostly everyone drinks like crazy. People in my major don't party too often, but I'd say overall a lot of people go out at least once a week if not 3 times. If you aren't into drinking, there are the movies, bowling on campus, the theater, and SLEEP is always good to catch up on over the weekend. In the nicer months, there is so much to do outside in Ithaca. I love the Plantations to run in, and there is a Farmer's Market and many gorges to walk/swim in.

I feel like people do things for the sake of getting into top graduate programs etc. There isn't anything to do on a Saturday that doesn't involve drinking, but that's probably true for a lot of places. Social life is flawed here in that it is structured so that the Greek system is the predominant institution and its members are somewhat granted privilege. Kids are just flat out weird here too, and if they aren't, they are rich assholes. But there are some ok kids, most of whom I met through freshman year dorms, which is the only place to meet people in their most real essence.

Greek life is very popular at Cornell. There are a lot of sports teams. I'm on the gymnastics team and have made a lot of friends that way as well as being in a sorority with some wonderful girls.

Greek life is huge on Cornell's campus with a third of the campus being involved. There are always parties, bars, College town. Athletic events can be popular depending on the sport or how well the team is doing. There is always someone doing something that you would be interested in.