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Georgetown University is a very big basketball university! Students are not as interested in football, but always attend the basketball games. Most students on campus are very active in athletics of some form or another. If they are not members of a formal team, they work out regularly and stay healthy and fit. Students are also involved in at least 1 club or group on campus. With other 200 to choose from, there's bound to be something to interest you.

There's a lot to do and parties, etc. are pretty open to anyone. DC can be fun too, but not sure how much it has changed in the four years I've been gone.

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I met my closest friends through on-campus activism. Beginning with Georgetown Solidarity Committee, the worker justice group, I got a chance to meet amazingly brilliant and dedicated people involved with MEChA de Georgetown (the Latina/o group), GU Pride (the LGBTQ group), and many others. There are no frats, but there is plenty of that typical college party -- drinking cheap beer, standing around awkwardly, uncomfortable drunken antics. For the next step above that, look out for dance parties -- the most notoriously good dance parties are thrown by the radio station (WGTB), student groups like MEChA or Solidarity, etc. There truly is much more to do than drink around DC, but frankly a lot of students never make it beyond the campus front gates or the upscale bars and shops of M Street.

I couldn't do crew because I was an international student. my biggest regret...

Social life is pretty good at Georgetown, and you can almost always find something to do on the weekends. Few people go out during the week, unless you're a senior. Most people stay on campus on the weekend, but there are also lots of events and shows going on in DC. Georgetown basketball is extremely popular, and lots of people get really into it and dress up for the games. As far as friends go, I've met most of my friends through living in dorms together or through studying abroad. There are no fraternities or sororities to speak of, other than the business fraternity or community service fraternity, for example. The dating scene is non-existent.

Although partying is big part of oncampus life, there are a lot of things to do that don't involve drinking. There are lots of campus sponsored activities like movie watches and carnivals that do not involve alcohol. Off campus, there are always plays, movies, and concerts that you can go to.

As cliche as this might sound I think there's one motto that accurately describes Gtown: Work hard, play hard. During finals the campus is pretty much dead and there's hardly any available seats in the library but on any random weekend not consumed by major tests you can find some pretty packed and fun parties in various spots throughout campus and the surrounding neighborhood. Basketball is HUGE - it's so incredibly fun to go to the games. It's become a ritual...and even the laziest of lazy students will get up at 9am to get to the Verizon Center by 10am on a Saturday morning - 2 hours before game time to ensure good seats for tipoff. I met my closest friends through introductions...I met one or two of them through freshman orientation and pre-matriculation networking events...the rest just accumulated through them. Dating works the same way - you just meet friends of friends either at parties or get to know people that you recognize from class and things develop from there. Eventually you learn that the network gets pretty small, but still big enough to be happy to see certain individuals when it's been a while.

great parties, friendly people

Georgetown recently began this program called What's After Dark that provides the opportunity for Georgetown students to engage in fun night time activities that do not focus on drinking. Definitely a plus!