Trinity College Top Questions

Social life is very fun at Trinity. While Fraternities and Sororities do dominate the social scene, there are plenty of other options for people who don't drink or don't enjoy Fraternities.

There are all kinds of groups on campus, ranging from the newspaper to the photo club, the bio club, the medical student group, the newspaper, the fencing club...there are a million of them. I love bio club. You go in to a room and find 15 people who love biology joking about things that have nothing to do with it. I have a great time. No one talks about bio. Athletic events bring students, but many more people go to guest speakers, seminars, theater, and so on. If I'm up at 2am on a Tuesday, which I am, I'm doing homework or procrastinating it. The biggest events every year are Homecoming and Spring Weekend. People party Thursday-Saturday. I don't go out Thursday because I have an early class on Friday, but it happens all the times. Frats don't control the social life, but they are kind of the epicenter of it. You can have a great party in your room, but if you want to go out and dance or get laid or whatever, you go to the frats. I tend to go off campus only for a movie, for shopping, or to go home. There's plenty to do on campus. There is stuff to do on Saturday night that doesn't involve drinking, but I don't know what it is. I'm drunk! I have friends who don't drink, and they seem to do fine.

Trinity social life is mainly the Greek organizations on campus. On the weekends, the nightly activity is normally going to the fraternities and partying there. People do go to athletic events on campus especially when the weather is nice in the springtime. I hate to say it but if you're not drinking on the weekends, there's not much else you can do since the surrounding city of Hartford doesn't offer many safe weekend sober venues.

frats are way important. even though only a small percentage actually pledge, most of the social life here goes on on Vernon St which essentially a line of frats.

singing groups sprots teams. field hockey rock climbinb toutering sometines not popular unless its a big game, guest speakers depends, theater depends idk in my dorm, on my team studying, cramming spring weekend, family weekend, homecomming 2-4 times a week important some weekends drank- went to a foam party idk touter refugees

Students in dorms don't leave their dorms open. I am involved in Kappa Kappa Gamma, which is a sorority here on campus. Athletic events are very popular, especially the Trinity Football games and squash matches. If I'm awake at 2 am on a Tuesday, I'm either studying for an exam or out at AD.

Fraternities rule the school. I don't really necessairly have a problem with that at all actually. There are many organizations on campus that offer events all nights of the week, including weekends that provide alcohol free activities. Students just have to find them. Students are lazy. They were so used to their high school where they knew everything and everyone, and now they have to start over. Most students don't remember freshman year of high school, when they walked around and were forced to start new activities and meet new people. They need to do that in college too, and people forget that

the most popular organization on campis is the fraternaties. i am not involved in any groups here. no one leaves their door open in the dorms. athletic events are very unpopular. guest speakers ramble and the theater plays nonsense. people hook up with each other and share gonorea...romantic. i have only 3 close friends here. one was in my seminar--which i hated. one is his roomate and all three live in my dorm. at 2 i am trying to sleep but my roomate is talking on the phone and playing computer games with the lamp on. people party everyday. i go home almost every weekend because i cant stand it here. the only thing you can do on a saturday night is sit in your room or go to a movie by yourself because everyone else is drinking. i cant go off campus because i dont have a car.

The big problem at Trinity is that the main people who throw parties are the frateritnies. There's also a huge drinking culture on campus, so it can be very hard to find people who don't drink. That being said, there are there if you look for them. For example, the Fred aims to be a social space without alcohol.

A large amount of Trinity students are involved in many different organizations on campus. There are intramural sports, club teams, fraternities, sororities, religious groups, and many others. Athletic events are pretty popular especially when the weather is nice and people want to hang out outside. Students at Trinity stay up pretty late most nights of the week, but sometimes it's nice to go to bed early. You can find people going out any night of the week, but the most popular nights to go out are Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Most people hang out in their dorm rooms or at students' apartments off campus and then go to a fraternity or sorority. Students also go to the few bars around Trinity's campus in Hartford.