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Popular organizations are the cultural clubs, such as LASO (Latin American Student Org), as well as Student Government. The fraternities and sororities still seem to reign in several students, although there is little housing for greek life. Students don't really leave their doors open, because they lock automatically anyways. Not many people date, because the co-op program keeps students moving/changing lives every 6 months. The social life revolves around going to the bars and drinking heavily. I don't really do anything off campus unless I go out to eat somewhere.

I’m heavily involved in Northeastern’s Campus Girl Scouts. I’ve served as three of the four different executive board positions. We are all registered adult Girl Scouts. As a student group we like to go camping and are looking to become more involved on campus in the upcoming years. We also run three troops of as many as 30 younger girls, ranging in ages from 5 to 17. When we were freshmen we never closed our doors. The people that I lived near are my very best friends from college to this day. As we’ve gotten older our circle has expanded to include new and old roommates, classmates, and friends from different student groups. It’s an overlapping mix of a bunch of different groups.

So much stuff to do but nothing seems to be centrally orgainzed.

I think the most popular group is the outdoors club, but I'm not sure. There are lots of different groups. I'm involved with the Student Ambassadors to the Alumni. We do a lot of work with events where alumni come back. They recently installed a whole office for that, though, which took away a lot of what we do, so the group is sort of lacking energy now. Athletic events aren't that important. I didn't even know we had a football team until the end of freshman year, actually. Sometimes they have some pretty good guest speakers, although they sell out fairly fast. We have some events every year, like homecoming and stuff, but none of those are a big deal. The dating scene is okay since we're in Boston - you meet a lot of people at bars. I met all my closest friends freshman year. People party fairly often but there are also a lot of hard workers here. Not so many house parties once you get older, since everyone goes to bars. Mostly on weekends or late at night I am at a bar or a concert or a friend's apartment. Fraternities/sororities are almost nonexistent, at least to me. I've only ever been to one frat party.

My dorm is probably the least friendliest freshman dorm on campus so basically all doors are closed ( I personally like it that way, no one bothers me). Hockey games are the only games that people really go to. I really like to watch the hockey games. There are always productions going on so the theater people will have their fill. There are always guest speakers, sometimes you just have to look for them. Lots of bands come around too. I really haven't delved into the dating scene yet but girls, there are tons of hot guys here, you just have to stop searching and you'll start to notice them all. My closest friend here is my roommate which is rare but most people are friends with someone in their major. There are lots of traditions here including sex week, international culture week, etc etc. What I did last weekend was find a new restaurant I haven't been to. Quite honestly, there's not much to do on weekends if you dont party. I don't drink or party so I either go out to eat or hang out with friends in their dorm. Some people like to go to the movies and in the winter, some people go ice skating. There are definitely party people out there but it's easy to stay away if you dont want to do that. It's also pretty easy to find somewhere to drink too. There are sororities and fraternities and a few of them are pretty prevalent and hold a lot of activities. I personally dislike sororities so... I haven't been to any events.

My freshman year, every door on my floor was always open. There were only 17 of us on my floor but we were all best friends. 4 years later, I'm still good friends with all of them. As an RA in the same building last year, i was disappointed that no one really left their door open. I think it differs with each class and residence hall. Speakers on campus are actually pretty popular. I wish I went to more. No one cares about athletic events. Hockey is probably the most popular, but I don't think I could name 5 people I know who have been to a hockey game. My closest friends I met in my residence hall freshman year and in the dance company. I think most people meet their friends in their dorms. If people are invloved in social groups or clubs, there are often close friendships formed there. If I'm awake at 2am on a Tuesday, I'm probably hanging out across the hall in my friends' room, playing mario kart or rockband and talking about nothing. It is one of my favorite things to do. Partying is pretty prevelent. There are frats and sororities on campus, but they aren't a huge deal. I think that in my 4 years at Northeastern I've been to one NEU frat party. The great thing about being in Boston is that there are a million other schools and therefore a million other parties. I've been to parties at BU, BC, MIT, Suffolk, Simmons, etc. Freshman year, when we didn't know many upperclassmen, we would just party in our dorm as much as 5 nights a week. It was always a group of about 15 or 20, and we were all very close. I always felt safe doing this, and it saved the trouble of going out and getting home late at night. There were actually a lot of nights when we didn't drink. We played games a lot. Apples to Apples, Cranium, and Balderdash can all turn into pretty crazy nights, even without alcohol involved. I miss those nights--we don't have them as much now that we are old enough to go to bars. Last weekend I went scuba diving at the Great Barrier reef. I am in Sydney doing a study abroad through Northeastern's program. It is a pretty great program, and in talking to other study abroad students here, I realize how much Northeastern takes care of. Unfortunately, some of the process was frusterating and we all felt like the study abroad office didn't care, but in the end, here I am. I switched majors my sophmore year and didn't have any credits transfer in from high school, and I was still able to do study abroad. If you want to do it, you can, and I would recommend everyone to take advantage of this program and travel. It is such a great opportunity and can really open your eyes.

i dont know what the most popular organizations are, but lots of people join frats and sororities, despite the Greek Life here being absolutely horrendous. im on the Ultimate frisbee team and we do anything that any other club would do. we play our sport, and take it pretty seriously, and we party when we dont have tournaments. people go to the hockey games, but thats really it. all our other sports suck. i met my closest friends on the frisbee team. thats really the best way to meet people. join a club. every year we have Sex week where thousands of free condoms are handed out and t-shirts are given and what not. people party every weekend. and im sure if you tried hard enough you could find a party every day of the week.

Biggest groups are Resident Student Association and Student Government Association. There are a ton of other groups to get involved with though. I'm in the United Nations Association which participates in collegiate Model United Nations and Model Arab League conferences and hosts conferences for middle and high school students. It's been a great experience and allowed me to meet tons of people from all over the world. Working with the high school kids is one of my favorite yearly events.

Most of the popular things on campus are club sports teams, general clubs, and of course frats and sororities are carving out a place as well. I myself am on the men's rugby team. Its a lot of fun to hang out with the guys and to play one of the best sports on the earth. We play a lot of big name teams like army, harvard, and BC so we get some recognition, but nothing spectacular. But sporting events with the exception of hockey and basketball games dont get much attention from students. our football/ soccer field isnt even on campus so they kind of take a backseat to parties or anything else you want to do. The campus itself is great, the food is decent and all freshman dorms are located in one area. Most kids keep their doors open so its easy to meet new people or hang out with anyone. Personally i meet most of my closest friends at orientation, then we all ended up living on a business themed floor so it worked out well that way, my other friends are predominantly from classes and rugby. Weekends and nightlife are also very prevalent on most days of the week. I mean on tuesday your not going to find a party, but from wednesday to saturday youre set for parties. The beanpot sparks a lot and so do most holidays so its like a typical college.

The most popular organizations on campus are probably the ones associated with culture. NU isn't a very Greek-oriented campus, though fraternities and sororities are very prominent. I was involved with NUTV every year I was at Northeastern, and the organization made amazing progress throughout those years. It started my freshman year as a project among a few people, and by the time I graduated, student-produced television shows were airing just about monthly from the campus intranet. Athletic events are not very popular at all. A far as football is concerned, the distant stadium was always blamed for that, despite the provided shuttles. Guest speakers were popular IF they were a comedian. Jim Bruer, Margaret Cho, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, and Pablo Francisco all had great student turnouts. Other speakers, not so much. Because the Northeastern theater program isn't very impressive, few people attended their shows. They were even in a separate theater that sat maybe 70 instead of the auditorium that sat over 1000. The dating scene was good, I guess. A lot of students venture of campus to visit students at neighboring colleges like Berklee, BU, Emerson, or Simmons. I met my closest friends in the dorms and at my work-study job, and if I was awake at 2am on a Tuesday (which I usually was), I would be hanging out in someone's dorm room or apartment watching a movie or shooting the shit. I never really participated in campus events that happened every year like the Beanpot or the homecoming parade, but I did participate in Boston events like the Pride Parade, First Night, St. Patrick's Day Parade, and the 4th of July on the Esplanade. Boston is full of stuff to do; you really can't get bored. There are tons of museums, restaurants, music venues, movie theaters, shops, and pool halls/bowling alleys. There's also the Common, Copley Square, the river...FREE places that are just nice to be in.