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If you like to have a good time, this is the place for you. There is a crowd everynight of the week at the watering holes here at IUP! But if that's not your style, you can always hop in the car and take a short trip to Yellow Creek State Park and do a little canoeing or camping. If you're looking for something to do on a Saturday night and want to keep it dry, you can cruise on down to the drive-in movie theater. For six bucks per person you can see two great movies right from your car.

i cant say that i have been to any athletic events i was usually to hungover for the football games on saturdays but i do think alot of ppl go to them. sororities and fraternities seem to be really big there. i wasnt in a frat because i thouught most of them were a bunch of douch bags plus i didnt have the type of money to join one of those stupid things. the sorority girls though were a different story..it seemed like every good loooking girl was in one so i interacted with them as much as possible.

IUP has a HUGE variety of extracurricular activities. There are clubs and organizations within your major, your department, and within your personal interests. Greek Life is big at IUP, but not everyone is involved in it. There are frats and sororities based on social, academic, community service, and professional goals. As for social life, you will meet so many people in your residence halls and classes that it is very easy to find something to do in your down time. Weekends are crazy fun but there are always alcohol free events for the students that don't drink. On weekdays, you may find yourself up at 1 in the morning in your hallway talking to the people around you. There is ALWAYS something to do.

There are a TON of ways to socialize at IUP. Clubs, sports (collegiate and pick-up), events, fundraisers, concerts, plays, galleries, movies, etc. just to name a few on-campus activities. Off-campus there are lots of restaurants, coffeshops and bars with open-mic nights, theaters, a mall, ice skating and roller skating rinks, and parks. Its hard not finding something to do. Especially when you live in a dorm and say, the second floor challenges the third floor to (insert super fun activity here). The only way you won't make new friends that will probably be like your extended family, is to lock yourself in your room and never come out. Its surprising even how many friends you make in your major let alone your other classes.

I'm involved in both cross country and track and field at IUP. I'm going into my fourth year of it and I've grown to love it. At first it can be kind of overwhelming trying to just work out a schedule to fit everything in, but once you do it just becomes regular. I still have a lot of time to hang out with friends and study and all that too. I've met some of my best friends by doing these two sports too. If your not really into sports either, there's about a hundred other activities you can get into. I've met so many people in classes, at sports events, or parties.

Of course, we have a pretty strong Greek Life at IUP. There's a number of fraternities and sororities to choose from. For those who are more academically oriented, there's also a large amount of academic, co-ed fraternities. I'm in two of them, myself. Every department has a fraternity, and there are also a number of academic honors, community service, etc groups. If you don't want to go out and party, there's a bus system that runs to the two malls (one of which has a movie theatre), and the plaza with a super Wal Mart in it. There's also a lot of restaurants to eat at.

The students in the dorms, at least during the first part of the year, leave their doors open to meet new people and welcome freshmen. I made all of my friends by attending beginning of the year movie nights held in one of their dorms and through studying in the Great Hall in the early hours of the morning. On the weekends there are the trips to Wal-Mart, the theatre, and the mall to keep all the students occupied.

Fraternities, sororities and sports teams are probably the most popular groups on campus. I am involved with the women's basketball team. We are actively involved in the community and get a lot of support in return. We excel in the classroom and the court, taking PSAC Champs the last two years. We have seen a growing crowd over the past two years and hope it continues to grow.

I've never lived on campus, so I missed out on a lot of the social life as far as living in dorms goes, but I've still made some great friends in classes. From what I have heard from other students, it's easy to make friends in the dorms. If you like being outside, there are a ton of things to do around Indiana, like hiking, biking, running, Frisbee, golf, etc. and we do have some great restaurants and community theatre groups, but if you are accustomed to the big city culture and nightlife, you might feel out of place here. One nice thing about IUP is being close enough to Pittsburgh to go there and enjoy what you might not find here, and there are a lot of other towns close by with the good malls and movie theaters students often complain Indiana is lacking. If you do like going out, Indiana has some great bars downtown, like Boomerangs, The Coney, H.B. Culpepper's, Wolfendale's and The Brown.

There are a lot of community service groups I know a large number of students are involved in. Sports are another large group. I play ultimate frisbee and I love it. Thats where I met most of my friends. We are always together just having fun. There are a lot of frats and sororities, but I do not hang out with them. Homecoming is a big event during the school year, there are others but i think thats the most popular. Like I said, the school is located in a small town so there is a limit on the things students can do with out drinking. There are restaurants, coffee shops, a hookah bar, and shopping stores.