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Like most colleges, greek life is definitely predominant. So many people rush and/or are in a sorority/fraternity, even I plan on rushing and I might be the last person I thought that would be apart of the greek life scene. Other than that, the gym seems to be everyone's favorite activity, even if they don't like it. I feel like I'm constantly seeing people going to and from the gym, or at least talking about it. No one wanted the Freshman 15.

There are far too many student organizations for me to point out the most popular one. At Drexel it really isn't a hierarchy of activities (like jocks on top, then band nerds, etc). It's more a question of your interests. For example, I am a news-writer and advice columnist for the newspaper (The Triangle), a member of the Forensic Science Club, co-founder of the Forensics and Debate Team (to be official next year), and co-founder of the French Club (to be official next year, as well). Like I said before, whatever you are interested in, it's here, and if it's not, you can make it happen because there's bound to be someone else who is. The only thing Drexel lacks that can be a major setback for some people is a football team. Instead our "football team" is an awesome (highly selective) comical improv group.

Graduate Program is unified

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I am currently involved with Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority, Steinbright Career Development Center Student Advisory Board, and the Drexel ALS Awareness Association. I would say on campus, a good amount of students are involved with either greek life or sports teams. I do have friends outside of greek life, but majority of my friends are in a sorority or fraternity. I think it makes your college experience a lot better. Not just for socializing, but for academics, athletics, networking, and community service as well. Out of all the groups I am in, I am most active in my sorority. I am community service chair for it, so I set up all of those events. For athletic events, I would say basketball is the most attended sport. Also, it depends how well the team is doing. I have attended a few guest speakers, but they aren't attended that frequently by the student body. I do not know much about the theatre scene, but I did attend one show for an english class last year. On a Tuesday at 2am, I would probably be doing school work, watching a movie, or sleeping. People generally do not party on weekdays here, except Thursdays, but some people go to the local bars on the weekday nights. Last weekend I attended a Fraternity party on Saturday, and went to see a movie on Friday, The movie theatre is about a 15 minute walk, so it is pretty close. Off campus I can attend events our Philadelphia, or go to nearby museums. Also, I go shopping nearby.

CAB (Campus Activities Board) is probably the most well known because they put on Spring Jam and other events on campus. I am a part of Late Night Series which is a student run open mic that meets every Thursday night and that is where I met all of my good friends here. Frats and Sororities are not play a huge role on our campus and at least for me I kind of forget that they are there but for others they always are there for parties. There is also a lot of stuff to do off campus like go to concerts, theatre, bowling and bars for those over 21.

Drexel does have a very involved and active Greek Life. I am not a part of it but just about all of my friends are, so if that is something you are interested in doing when you head to college you will have that opportunity here. There is CAB (Campus Activities Board) which helps to coordinate concerts/events for Drexel. We have a great office of diversity and multicultural studies. There are also a lot of other student organizations, to be honest I never really had the time to join any because I was too busy with working and school, but I know there are a ton! Also, if there is something that you want to see at Drexel that they don't have you can always try to get it brought on campus. I do a lot of work with Invisible Children, and I have held a ton of events and fundraisers on campus, without there even being a designated club. I lived in Towers my freshman year and met a lot of my friends that way. Everyone pretty much left their door open, and we became good friends with the guys on the floor below us. However, most people move "off campus" (into apartments and away from Drexel's WAY too expensive housing) after freshman year, so you will make most of your friends after that from clubs or classes. Because we are right in West Philadelphia and SO close to the city, there are endless opportunities for things to do. I would say Wed-Sat there is always a bar or party to go to, if that is your thing. If you aren't into that scene, there are tons of restaurants and concert venues throughout the city. Most students work so hard during the week on their studies, so the weekend is the time to relax. Every year the weekend before and of St. Patrick's Day there is Erin Express. It is a bar crawl for the holiday that starts at about 8 or 9am (yes, in the morning), and you are supposed to move throughout the bars in University City and then head to Old City. Most people don't make it out of UCity, but it is always a really fun time to cover yourself in green from head to toe and have a good drunken time with friends.

The recently finished Drexel Recreation Center offers students the opportunity to engage in weight-lifting, running, rock-climbing, swimming, basketball, squash, racquetball, aerobics classes, cycling, and probably a lot more activities. So, physical activities are certainly popular at Drexel currently. Drexel University has some pretty successful athletic teams, including Men’s and Women’s basketball, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, and wrestling. Additionally, there are many club teams to watch or participate in. Finally, intramural sports are very popular at Drexel and they do an overall fantastic job at organizing the leagues. Walking on campus, you will always find people who are involved in various student organizations offering free food or prizes to students as they pass by. It may be possible to live off of the amount of free food offered to students during the various activities!

I swim for Drexel's varsity team, so athletics are where my friend-base is, although there are a million things to do off-campus. CAB (Campus Activities Board) puts on tons of events throughout the year, discounted flyers games, eagles games, phillies games, orchestra tickets, etc. which is a huge plus.

Commuting is the single most dangerous thing for your social life at Drexel. There are all sorts of people here and you will probably hate a lot of them, but if you look you can probably find some you like. The problem is that commuting gives you a lot less opportunity to find those people. Our CS program is basically all male. Out of ~100 people, my year had 4 girls, 2 of which left. That seems like par for the course, though. Luckily there are girls who aren't afraid of nerds. If I'm up at 2am on a Tuesday, I'm laying on the floor of my room cramming for a Physics test that the professors did not prepare us for at all, wondering if I'll pass it (even though I'm an A student otherwise). I'll have a math test Wednesday, but I'll know what I have to study and won't worry. I'll have to get up at 5:30 to make it there on time, but SEPTA will make me late anyway. (On the way home the train will break down entirely). Earlier that night I will have been working at Techserv, a student org that puts Linux on donated computers and sends them to non-profits. The group has a lot of nice, but socially repressed nerds, but also some people with social lives.