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Greek Life is a dominant social activity on campus. But there are other ways to get involved if one wishes, be it club athletics or intramural sports. Football games and basketball games are massive events that the majority of campus gets involved with.

Greek Life is a dominant social activity on campus. But there are other ways to get involved if one wishes, be it club athletics or intramural sports. Football games and basketball games are massive events that the majority of campus gets involved with.

Social life is really dependent on whether you are greek or non-greek. Their is plenty to do in Knoxville without being a greek, but being the greek community gives you a community and social scene immediately. Lots of alchohol, but no hard drugs that I ever saw. Great underground music scene. Old City was great once I was legal.

Football games, basketball games, and anything else you can think of...UT has it. I even joined the badminton club one year. Plenty of greek letters seen around campus, if that's your fancy then UT has that also.

I was actually not involved with UTK activities my freshamn year because I wanted to focus on my grades first and get situated to college, and I had to work when I wasn't going to school.

Fraternities and Sororities are by far the most popular groups on campus, followed by the religious organizations. I always left my door open in my dorm, but that was more because of the heat than anything. I was involved in so many different things, but most of my time was spent with my Fraternity and with a Greek (as in Fraternities and Sororities) Christian Ministry on campus. Football is King, I never went to the Theater and the only guest speaker I ever heard speak was Governor Bredesen. Met my friends through the Fraternity and the others through photography and italian classes. Most of my girlfriends were in Sororities. We have the Vol Walk, Homecoming, the SAE Boxing Tournament, All-Sing, the Florida game and Rush Week that happen every year. People party on Thursday and Friday nights, and on the weekends. To me, fraternities were extremely important, but that's because we ran SGA, All Campus Events and anything else related to student government or Homecoming.

UTK activities and social life is an amazing thing. Several people believe that it is the only reason several kids go to college. This is false. Almost all go for their academics though their social lives are also important. If one's social life falters, their academics usually start to reflect. Several students go "Greek" which means join a fraternity or sorority. UTK offers several different ones to choose from and there is a "rush" held two times a year. Students that live in the dorms are either really open with each other or keep to themselves. A lot depends on the floor that you live on and who your Resident Assistant is. My RA this past year was really awesome about making sure that she knew everyone and tried to come up with several floor activities to help get everyone together. A special bond develops between the people on the different floors if people are interested in helping it form. I will never forget my college experiences that happened while living in the dorm. Parties are held almost every day of the week for those people who wish to attend. Students will normally wait until the weekend or the later part of the week before going out. This helps with grades and tests. There are several activities a person can do instead of drinking. They can go to the gym and workout or play sports with their friends, go for a hike, watch a movie, go out to eat, go out on the town, still go to parties but just not drink, or just hang out with friends.

There are many fraternities and sororities on campus that students join to make initial friends, however, they tend party...ALOT! There are many traditions that happen every year, and living on campus helps students stay up to date on those. There's Homecoming Events with Smokey's Howl, The Vol Walk for every football game, and much more.

Again-[(engineering students+insane curriculum)^(university hands in pockets)]*(disassociated faculty)= no life so can't comment here unless you count getting liquored up after exams and streaking main street:)

Athletic events are the most popular events on our campus. With a stadium capacity well over 100,000..who wouldn't be excited about going to a football game?! I'm not involved in a fraternity and do not care to fit into that social scene. But most of the time they do provide respectful charity work to the area. There are plenty of opportunities to make road trips to Nashville to see a concert or go shopping in Atlanta or catch your favorite small band in Asheville all in a day's trip. Of course, the natural surroundings are also plentiful with the Great Smoky Mountains as a great backdrop to go camping, canoeing, or even just going to the mountains for a retreat in a cabin or chalet.