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There are lots of activities on campus, if you know where to look and are willing to venture outside your comfort zone. Go ahead and sign up for women's club hockey, no one's gonna laugh when you fall on your ass. Get out and try stuff. There's a lot of community service stuff, a lot of environmental awareness groups and projects, and a lot of minority student groups. Theater is kinda big, sports are kinda big. Um, HOCKEY. Parties are pretty standard. The weekend scene is pretty standard. People are very open and fun.

every one is out and about on weekends and nice days. there is always something going on

Like most schools, freshman dorms are a huge catalyst for forming friend groups; most of my closest friends lived on my wonderful freshman all-girls hall. Most informal social hangouts start with small dorm room parties and culminate with large parties occur off-campus at nearby seniors' houses, In my opinion, the off-campus parties are fun if you know quite a few people there and not fun at all if you don't. Events organized by the school can be good or bad. The school puts on some good plays for its size, and the three a cappella groups on campus are very popular and well-loved. The school isn't big enough to pull in any good bands except for once a year. CC does really well with bringing in speakers and organizing forums, though. Highlights in my three years have been Stephen D. Levitt, Jim Wallis, Salman Rushdie, and Billy Collins. I think there have been several Pulitzer winners who have visited in the last year. CC is a fairly safe and tight-knit campus. It's small, all the student body except most seniors lives on-campus, and those who do live off-campus live in the surrounding streets and neighbourhoods. The only real external safety concerns are bike theft and the occasional sketchy fellow on campus, due to the proximity of downtown.

So few students that you recognize everyone. A new face on campus is blaring. But with this comes a personal, cozy social atmosphere. The students are a lot more like family then merely fellow classmen.

CC has incredible opportunities for all walks of life. I don't know how, but CC seems to attract some of the most dynamic speakers who have done incredible things all over the world. The CC social life consists of house parties, creepy townie bars and school hosted outdoor events that are probably the greatest things ever. You've never had more fun in your life then at Llamapalooza - our outdoor music festival which is just an excuse to get drunk and high on the quad with your bff's while wearing hippy garb and dancing like and idiot.

If you are looking for a school that does not place alot of emphasis on greek life, this is your school. Yes we have fraternities and sororities, and people do participate in them, however, they in no way dictate social life in anyway. Although the Fraternities do hold some legit parties.

I certainly didn't realize how much of a party school CC is until I became a student here. At any given moment after class, there is a party going on somewhere nearby. As far a activities go, CC is full of them. There's always some event/lecture going on open to both the school and the public. It's so easy to get involved with groups. As far as dating goes, I think I know about one couple on campus. This school is THE hook-up school, and STDs are becoming more and more of a problem here.

There are various of activites;even if you do not enjoy sport; hanging out with friends and just doing some sort of fitness goes a long way. I do not party as much as some students and if I'm up at 2:00 am, I'm probably hanging out with friends in someone's apartment on a Friday night, or watching TV.

The dating scene is awful, because there aren't enough men to women and many people don't ask each other on dates. Instead, they just wait to hook up at a party. The party scene is good though, because anyone can go to any party. There are some great on-campus social events with free beer like the Drag Ball where everyone dresses up as the opposite sex and Blues and Shoes, a festival with live music and a horseshoe tournament.

Most popular groups/orgs/clubs/teams: frisbee, hockey, WAC, LiveSounds Open door policy usually at the beginning of the year but then ppl leave them closed mostly. Hockey events are pretty popular, but not huge. Guest speakers can be pretty popular depending on who they are--we had Ron Jeremy last year which was huge. I met my closest friends in class, in my dorm, in the climbing gym, and through other friends. If you're awake at 2 am on a Tuesday you are probably hanging out with friends in your dorm--you MIGHT be studying, but its unlikely. Frats and sororites are not important at all-they exist but don't play into the usually sterotypes. Last weekend, I went out to an electronic-dance-rave party a few streets over from campus and went to a climbing competition. Saturday night non-drinking activities are pretty common--its pretty easy to still have fun and not drink here.