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hockey is by far our biggest sport and the games are intense. we also have a kickass inter mural waterpolo team. You cant throw a rock out here without hitting an acapella group. We also have a good theater department and an amazing list of guest speakers which include John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Bill Nye, Janet Reno, Salman Rushdie, Mary Robbinson (ex-president of Ireland), Sandra Day Oconnor, Maya Angelou, and john Cleese.

The social life can be lacking at times, especially since bars close at 1 am in the morning. Frat parties, however, are often raging until the late hours of the morning and can be really fun. Greek life is incredibly important at Cornell. Essentially, you cannot have a life if you're not in a sorority/fraternity, most people find this out the hard way, after trying to crash numerous greek only events.

social life is centered around greek life for the most part. everything involves drinking.

I think that a lot of the social life on campus is dominated by Greek life. I think there are positive and negative aspects to this. I think one thing it does is help people become socially involved and make friends, but it also excludes people who are not involved in Greek life. I really do wish there were less frats on campus because I don't think they add many positive things to Cornell.

Acapella is pretty big on campus. Some freshmen dorms are more social than others. For example, I hear in Donlon, students leave their doors open all the time. I don't think athletic events are very popular especially for sports like tennis, swimming, soccer, etc. If I'm awake at 2 am on a Tuesday, I'm probably studying in my room or at hte library. People party every Friday.

The a cappella groups are extremely popular and the hockey team, of course, is adored by all. Frat parties are huge from Thursday night to Saturday night, but there is also other things going on like plays and concerts and speakers, which get a considerable turnout, too. In my dorm, students leave their doors open and I think it is a great way to meet people, especially since the schoo is so big and you may feel overhwelmed at the beginning. I met all of my friends first semester through my dorm and I've meet my other friends through my sorority, which I love.

the greek system is incredibly involved in. its a very tight-knit community cornell hockey, basketball, and lacrosse attract very high attendance and athletes are a very big presence students tend to leave their dorms open when they are in the building people party thursday-saturday night last weekend FIJI had their big FIJI Island party (day and night) and it was incredble, completely packed, excellent music greek life is veryyyyy important on cornell's campus with over 40 frats and 12 sororities

sororities and fraternities are prevalent and you hear a lot about them a lot of people like to get drunk at frat parties and hook up met closest friends through dorm and sorority and classes if i was awake at 2am on a tuesday i would probably be doing work always parties going on friday and saturday nights, some people party a lot more than that, a lot of people ddont party at all

I love my sorority, but sometimes I wish that there was less of a Greek life presence on campus, because especially freshman and sophomore years, it pretty much dominates the social scene. Sports teams are definitely very popular and events are fun, but I'm sure they're not as fun as at a big ten school.

lots of drinking, but also a million other things from sports and music to DDR and anime