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I must say that the activities that Miami offered were fantastic. On a single night you could see a production of the musical "Rocky Horror Picture Show," dash to Hall Auditorium and be serenaded by the Men's Glee Club, and then head back to the Student Center (Shriver) and catch a free movie with games, food, fun, etc... at midnight! There was always something going on so it was hard to be bored on campus.

There's plenty to do at Miami. There is something for everyone. There's religious groups, greek life, sports, multitudes of student lead organizations. Although greek life is pretty stressed, its not the only thing. There are plenty of "non-affiliated" students. You can find anything to suit your interests at Miami. There's always something going on on and off campus whether its a big hockey or football game (hockey is much more fun), or parties, or going out to eat uptown, or student lead events (for example, Relay for Life).

A big game at Miami is broomball. Drinking is a problem for freshmen if you don't join a fraternity. There are not really any parties that you can go to after rush is over unless you have upperclass friends with apartments. They are very ridiculous about invading your privacy in order to catch you drinking in the dorms. Another huge downside is that they are starting to make sophomores live on campus, which you definitely will not like by the time you get to sophomore year.

anything Greek is popular. Ambassadors for Children is a really cool group, non-profit, supposed to give meaningful travel experiences to help out children all over the world. Hockey games are amazing. I would go to Miami JUST for the hockey games. Greatest thing around, seriously, they are SO exciting and the student section gets so into it. Green Beer Day!!!!!!... Don't need to say much more than that :) MU is famous for it, and it's all it's hyped up to be. On a Saturday night that doesn't involve drinking, there is generally something going on around campus, whether it's at Shriver or wherever, they always have cool things going on. The uptown at Miami is pretty cool too, besides bars there's movies and there's pretty nice malls within like 45-min.

The social life is what you want to make it at Miami. There are hundred of student organizations on campus so almost everybody can find something that they enjoy to do. I have had so much fun participating in my fraternity the last 3 years. I dont know what I would have been withouth it. I have also loved playing on the Club Broomball team. We have traveled the country to play in national tournaments and we even won the 2008 Intercollegiate National Championship this past spring.

Whatever you want to do, you can do it. There are so many different things to do that whatever you are interested in doing is an option.

The majority of students are in clubs or organizations of some kind which makes sense since there are so many. There are groups of all kinds. Greek life is huge, a lot of Greek organizations were started here and are a major source if entertainment. Partying is a favorite pastime, but it is not as crazy as some schools. Getting busted for underage alcohol gets more harsh every year, but getting alcohol is easy. Drinking in the dorms is easy. A lot of RAs are laid back and don't want to get you in trouble, but if you are being destructive then watch out for them. Sports are not as big as other D-I schools except hockey. Hockey last year was ranked #1 in the country for most of the season and those games are always packed and really fun. The school gets behind the hockey team. Most kids are very social and when you live in the dorms it is easy to meet people. You will need to study on the weekends sometimes, but there are others when you can go out during the week. Green Beer Day (GBD) is the Thursday before Soring Break every year. We can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day because our SB is scheduled over it. GBD is when you wakreup early (or stay up the night before) and drink all day. The bars open up at 5:30 am serving everything green. People go to class after drinking then drink more then more class, etc. (if they go to class that day)

My dorm experience was a great one...i met so many people and everyone on my floor had an open door friendly attitude. Social life is a very important thing to a miami student. High street is always crowded on the weekends and the bar scene is big here. Since its such a small town, people find their own ways of having fun which usually consists of house parties, beer pong, cornhole, then uptown to the bars. Frats and sorotities are prevelant here. If your not in one, its not a huge deal because you will have at lease one good friend that is in one, so your not completely left out on all the parties. If your plans on a saturday night dont include drinking, there is a cute movie theater uptown and a little bowling ally about 5 minutes away.

Miami has a HUGE Greek life. Although I'm not part of a sorority, it's so present on the campus that it's hard not to know a little bit about it. The Greek life is probably the biggest organization on campus with about 1/3 of the student body involved in sorority or fraternity life. However, if Greek like isn't really your thing, there are so many other organizations to join. I am a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters ( I highly recommend it) as well as a volunteer at the Community Counseling and Crisis Center (ranked top 3 in the nation last year). It's very easy to meet people and make friends here at Miami. My roommates are the people that lived in my dorm freshman year and my closest friends are a mixture of people from my dorm, studying abroad (GO ABROAD!!!!), and people from the various jobs that I have had since being at Miami. There are so many opportunities on campus for interacting and socializing. There's a little bit of everything for everyone.

Athletic events are not that popular at the Hamilton branch. I feel like students are not made aware of the activities going on around them. I think its a lot harder to make friends in college because so many students come for their classes and then leave. Students don't really stick around so its hard to get to know people. The people that I started to talk to were the people in my classes.