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-Most popular groups are frats and sororities. Huge greek life here at URI, many groups to join. Tons of clubs and organizations to join, from chess club to a political club. Sports teams are great to watch on campus! Intramural sports are also a big deal here, with a lot of people participating. They are a lot of fun I do them each semester. -I'm involved with the Entrepreneurship Club, im president. It's a fun time, we hear about kids that have already started a business, and we have guest speakers come in and tell us about their experience. I am involved with intramural sports, I love playing indoor soccer. -Some students will be shy and always close their door, and some students will always leave their door open. But the dorms have a good environment, and there are always opportunities to make new friends just by exploring the dorms. -Theater has a great program here, they always put on shows, and have good turnouts. Athletic events are constantly growing, they get bigger turnouts each semester and are fun to go to! -Dating scene is what I would consider normal. Relationships happen often and are obviously acceptable, but most students choose the single life. If you are looking to find someone there are PLENTY of people to choose from, and if you are dating/want to find other couples to hang out with it is easy to do so. -I met my closest friends by networking with my best friend. I had a best friend from the first college I attended, Suffolk University, and we both transferred to URI. He was from Rhode Island, so I met all his high school friends and friends that go here. They are now my closest friends at the school. I also have a couple close friends that I had many classes with over the semesters. Class is a great way to meet people. -If I'm awake at 2am on a tuesday, Im probably up late eating/watching tv with my girlfriend. We love to stay up late a few times a week together. When I lived in the dorms though, I stayed up late with my floor mates every single night until even 4am a lot of times. It was a blast. -People party all the time here. If there is a certain day you like to party, you will definitely be able to find people that are partying on that day. Every day of the week there are people somewhere, doing something, having a great time. Just gotta find them. -Frats/sororities are huge here. Many groups to choose from, and they have a great time. Big school for greek life. -Last weekend I met my friends out at the bar on Friday (Im 21) and on Saturday I met up with my friends at their house to hang out and watch the basketball games, and then we walked to a house party down the street. Off campus life. -On a saturday, you can go to a movie, go bowling, or check out one of the many great places to eat around here. There are gyms, and a rock climbing gym too. There are plenty of ways to get out without drinking around here. Its Rhode Island, everything is under 20 min away. -Off campus is great for house parties. Living off campus, you live in neighborhoods where all the houses around you have students living in them, its sick! When you are 21 there are great bars to go to. But off campus consists of hanging out with friends in houses, parties, bars, and great restaurants that you have to go to. Providence is close too, and you can do anything you can think of there.

The most popular groups are definitely the frats and sororities, and the SEC(Student Entertainment Committee) which sets up all of the concerts and shows for the year. Parties are often and not hard to find but the campus is a dry campus. Athletic events are good but its a lower end division 1 school so we are not typically very good. I personally don't do much things in the URI community since I have a job while going to school but there are definitely a lot of ways to get involved all you have to do is see the bulletins in buildings and there are always people in the Dining Halls looking for volunteers. If you go off campus it is usually to go to parties but there is a decent town outside of the campus and Newport is 15 minutes away.

One very popular group is called Humans Vs. Zombies which takes place anywhere on campus that is outdoors. I have some friends who have had a blast in this group. The members wear orange bandannas on their heads or arms to indicate which team they are on, and proceed to tag, or shoot each other with nerf guns. A group I was involved in was the Students for a Sensible Drug Policy which spent meetings planning URI's annual hempfest. I also belonged to the University Chorus, which performs once a semester. I have never heard bad things about groups and clubs on campus. In addition, URI possesses a field called the quad where many students study, talk, walk, play sports, hold events, and relax. Thursdays most people enjoy a drink or ten, but weekends can be a hit or miss in the party scene. As far as dating goes, if you are with a significant other, be prepared for it to get serious quickly, as you will most likely be close to them often. If you are single, it is very easy to find someone to fool around with or romance for an hour or for long terms. Events at the Ryan Center are also notably popular, and a guaranteed good time, with past guests such as Avicci, Snoop Dogg, GooGoo Dolls, Lupe Fiasco, and many others.

I think everyone has already said enough about how prolific the Greek system is. The best way to learn about other groups is probably First Night, which is an event held by the school which hosts every student organization and a number of local businesses to let you know what's on campus and in the area. There's an incomplete (and always outdated, admittedly) list of student organizations at http://www.uri.edu/studentorg/ with contact information if you want to get some more information before committing to anything. While I do have experience with many (read: too many) student organizations, I would not want to give some attention here when there are many about which I know absolutely nothing. (I also accidentally ran the Gaming Club last year, so if you have a question about that or any organizations that seem related, or if you're a crazy person and already have ideas about starting your own organization, odds are very good I can answer.) Something else that's important to know is that Kingston, RI is not home to much that is both in walking distance and off campus. If you have never learned to use a bus system, now might be a good time to try, as keeping a car on campus is fairly expensive. Everything else is easy to figure out once you've gotten yourself some friends. Even before I had a set "group" I never found myself waning to do something and having nothing. Weekends are occasionally rough as sometimes everyone in Rhode Island will decide to go home for the weekend, and if you live on campus the food gets much worse on the weekends. But eventually you'll learn to work with what's around you. If you want to know what's around you, ask. Ask friends; ask alumni; ask me!

The most popular student activity is off-campus partying. The bars are a hot spot. On campus there are a lot of groups that primarily meet and have offices in the Union. The most popular ones are the newspaper, The Good 5 Cent Cigar, P.I.N.K women, eXposure, and many other groups. The university makes it easy for anyone to start a group or organization, so if you have an idea don't be afraid to ask. There is a heavy sorority and fraternity presence at U.R.I. If you walk through and around campus you will see at least two greek house buildings. To speak to the students activities and partying, which we all know plays a role, if you don't mind driving to parties or arranging transportation U.R.I. will be right up your ally. If you looked you will be able to find a party almost every day. This plays into the dating scene, which, if you put yourself in the right place at the right time you will certainly find someone. Otherwise, go to parties or be outgoing in class and on campus.

Greek. Greek is everything here. Where you meet friends, meet future employers, network, everything. URI=GREEK

The most popular teams on campus are basketball and track. Many people like showing up to their event and know most of the players. A popular club is the psychology club because there are so many people with this major and so there is a high amount of students that attend. I am involved in many various groups such as the Golden Key Honors Society, the Psychology Club, Psi Chi Honors, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. The one I am probably involved in most would be the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. This year I am president for the University of Rhode Island Chapter. We are involved with many service events and have meetings twice a month. I dedicate at least 8 hours a week to the organization and have set up many events personally with the officer board. Students do not leave their doors open in the dorms. The only time anyone really did that was the first couple weeks of school to get to know people. Other than that most people knock or text to meet up. The only popular athletic events are track races and basketball games. They are fun to go to with a bunch of friends and show Rhody pride. There are many career guest speakers along with singers and pop celebrities for concerts that URI sets up. The dating scene is pretty cool here. There are many cute dates that people can go on such as nice restaurants, the beach, and also out to bars. There are different atmospheres for varying types of dates. My closest friends are actually the random roommates assigned to me freshman year and a bunch of other people on my hallway. I also met some of my closest friends in my classes. Freshman year there were not too many parties to go and meet people so I made very good relationships through the school. At this point in my life, being my senior year, a lot of Tuesdays I spend at the bar Ocean Mist in Matunuck. They have Two Ticket Tuesday Reggae nights. It is the place to be on Tuesday nights. If I am not there it means I have a busy week and I am normally up in my room doing homework and finishing up papers. Each year Rhode Island has it's St. Patrick's day festivities in Newport. Other years I was too young to go and last year I was abroad but I know about 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my friends went there last year. It is a big event and I hope to go this year. People party about 3-4 times a week. They have different nights in Rhode Island. Thursday is "The Zoo" (Bonvue), Friday is the coastgaurd house, Saturday is Charlio's and Tuesday is Omist (Ocean Mist). Some daring people even go out to Clam Jammers on Wednesday. If you are not 21 though there is not too much to do. When I was a Freshman it was a completely dry campus, it is turning into a damp on now but it still wasn't too thrilling as a younger student. Fraternities and Sororities are not too important on the University of Rhode Island campus. If anything I feel they do more harm than good. Recently there was a huge fight that broke out concerning a fraternity and there were many injuries and arrests, even pepper spray had to be used. I do not feel they have stable connections after college and many people join for the wrong reasons. I do believe there are some though that do community service and contribute for the links and connections of a future, just a lot of them do not have such a bright outcome. Last weekend I went home to New York to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with my family and friends from home. On a normal weekend though I do homework during the day on Friday, go out to a bar at night; go to my internship Saturday morning and then out and night and Sunday is normally all homework and re-cooperating. On a Saturday night you can go out bowling, to a restaurant, or go see a movie. Prices are relatively cheap for all of the above activities. Off campus I like to take walks on the beach near my house, go fishing, bike ride, and hang out with friends and play video games.

Greek life is very active at URI, although if your not Greek, you won't be left out. I am not Greek, and I never feel like I don't have anything to do. I've met my best friends from the dorms and from classes. Just hanging out in the dorms your friend knows a guy who knows a girl who knows this other guy, and everyone is hanging out together and its easy to become friends with everyone. It definitely depends on the group of people you are living with and whether you make friends with them, if you do then the dorm doors are usually open and its just like hanging out with your buds all the time. It's pretty awesome. There are a lot of parties, most of which are off campus. But if you choose not to party, you can always chill with friends and there's no pressure to party. The athletic events here are pretty big and almost everyone gets involved. It's a whole lot of fun. When its warmer out you can go to the beach close by or just chill outside on the quad and it's so beautiful. Also providence is right there so there's always plenty to do.

Greek life is big but theres definitely things to do besides it. There are a bunch of clubs and you can make your own