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I leave my door unlocked because I feel safe on the university. The most popular groups are the athletic teams and the most popular events are the sporting events. Pretty much everyone on campus is involved in some physical activity ranging from varsity sports to club sports and intermurals. Other active groups are the student government, campus ministry, and student activities board. The dating scene at Notre Dame tends to be polarized. Either kids are casually hooking up or they are dating on the track to get married by graduation. I really like the social scene on campus because there are no fraternities or sororities and social life is more dictated by dorm identity.

I personally like to party, and South Bend is not always the most swinging town. I also have friends who never drink and they seem to have fun too.

most popular groups are those organized by dorms, or have to do with sports. i play field hockey adn love it. in my dorm, doors are always open, and people walk in all the time. athletic events are really popular, especially football and basketball. im not sure about guest speakers, theater and music is fairly well attended. dating scene isnt the best. it seems to be basically married or just hook ups. not much casual dating. my closest friends are those that live near me and some others from classes. if im up at 2 am on tues im probably studying. LOTS of traditions of social events. each dorm has stuff, as well as campus wide events. fall is all football. people party maybe thursday, usually fridya adn saturday. frats/sororities dont exist, but dorms act like them in some ways. last weekend my mom came up for mother daughter weekend at my dorm, so we went out to dinner and a movie. i did go hang out in a boys dorm after she went back to her hotel saturday night. if you dont want to drink you can go to parties and not drink, or go to flipside events, or hang out or go to concerts or watch movies. off campus go shopping, to the movies, out to dinner, older kids go to bars and clubs

some students leave their doors open. it happens more often in boys' dorms

The most popular groups on campus are those involving sports and volunteering. Circle K is huge, as are the (very competitive) club sport teams including men's rowing, women's field hockey, men's rugby, boxing, ultimate frisbee, and downhill skiing. Guest speakers and concerts at the on-campus nightclub and bar (Legends) are very popular. If you are considering ND and you don't enjoy football, basketball, or hockey, perhaps this isn't the right school for you - football home games consume entire weekends in one gulp and basketball and hockey games are very popular throughout the winter. Notre Dame is all about traditions and sports are a big part of those traditions. If you happen to be awake at 2 am on a Tuesday, you are probably finishing some homework you put off until the last minute or just chilling with some friends in your dorm room - parties are usually limited to Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights since in-hall dorm Mass is Sunday evening.

Notre Dame is quite an active campus, and most people participate in a lot of activities (whether on the intramural, club, or varsity level). Almost every event on campus is to raise money for a respectable charity, and people are quite ready to donate to the various causes. Most people participate in some kind of service work.

In the fall, football games are the most universally important event on campus for the student body, promoting school spirit and involvement in the school. The dorm life at Notre Dame is heavily stressed, and many students remain very loyal to their dorms and the friends they make there throughout Notre Dame and after. The dorms also have very strong, unique traditions (as well at Notre Dame having many traditions). Athletics play a role in many students lives. Students party often on the weekends, but mostly study during the weekdays. There are no fraternities or sororities at Notre Dame. There are also many options for students who do not wish to drink, many of which are sponsored by Flipside, a student organization.

Door in the dorms are left open it extremly safe. Parties are happening pretty much whenever you want to go to one. If i'm awake a 2 am on a tue i'm studying, but most others are probably playing xbox or partying. No frats. Most of the weekend activities on the weekends are heavily centered on drinking.

Plenty of parties available, everyone in the dorms is at least somewhat friendly if not exactly outgoing. Athletic events extremely popular. Definitely a little weird with the opposite sex. Since guys and girls are segregated into different dorms, I feel like it's a lot harder for guys to meet girls and vice versa than at other schools but it's not a debilitating situation just kind of annoying. My closest friends are from my dorm. My girlfriend I met at a party because she was there with one of my friend's girlfriend.

I don't do much outside of school work and my job, but I do fill out surveys in my free time.

ND has tons of sweet sports clubs and other clubs. There seems to be like something for everyone. Most kids leave the doors to their rooms open because most people are pretty outgoing/friendly. ND also has many options for kids who don't want to get crunk on the weekends. The dating scene at ND is very hard to get out of, but if you want a relationship, people seem to be open to it. As for traditions, there are so many, you can't go a day without some odd tradition occuring.

The dorms are a HUGE part of why I love Notre Dame so much- they're their own internal communities and I love living in my dorm!

For many student, whether you grew up with it or not, Notre Dame = Football. In Fall, football is what you do on the weekends. Win or lose, there will be a party to celebrate or drown your sorrows Saturday night. Different dorms have very different atmospheres. Some are very open, some are quieter, one dorm's got a party going every night, another is the best place to be if your a jock... they range and all have their ups and down. Dating on the ND campus is interesting to say the least. Having a fairly closed campus and the feeling of a small town, most of the people you know will be from campus or one of the surrounding campuses. If you are looking for a party on campus you can always find one. The campus party scene is pretty lively, and ND students are pretty creative with party themes.

Drinking is an almost essential part to ND's culture...I don't really know what people do except party on the weekends (at nights, that is). I know that there are other options like concerts (occasionally good ones) and Flipside has outings, but it seems like the mainstream thing to do is go out and drink, unless you choose to have a chill movie night or game night with friends. But in terms of wanting to go out and be in a non-drinking environment to meet new people, Legends or AcousticCafe is probably the best bet.

Students in the male dorms always seem to leave their doors open while the females do not. Athletic events are really popular, especially Notre Dame football. Guest speakers and theater events as well are fairly popular; there´s always something going on. The dating scene...well Notre Dame has self proclaimed gender relation issues. Apparently Notre Dating as it´s called is weird. Apparently the notion is that students of the opposite sex are either hooking up or simply acquaintances ant that they can´t be friends or in a relationship. I don´t think this is necessarily accurate, because I have friends of the opposite sex. In that respect too, there does not appear to be much homosexual dating, considering Notre Dame itself is a Catholic University and although the Catholic church accepts homosexuals, it does not approve of homosexuals being sexually involved. This is one thing that really bothers me about Notre Dame actually, and it´s been recent controversy about including sexuality in the non-discrimination clause. There are no fraternities and sororities. People party Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, although some students party during the week as well, and not everyone parties on Thursdays, and not everyone even parties. On a Saturday night that doesn´t involve drinking there are Flipside events; Flipside is a group offering alternative entertainment to drinking. You can go bowling or rollerskating or to a movie. On campus the Student Union offers movie screenings on Saturdays. There´s usually some sort of concert of theater event on campus as well. Or you can just hang out with friends, watch a movie in someone´s room, or go to Legends, a restaurant club type of place where they have concerts or comedians or dance parties.

something going on all the time, football rules

Notre Dame has a work hard/play hard policy. The dating scene isn't veery big. t's either a hook up or you're in a relationship.

Interhall sports is probably the most popular extracurricular but there are so many groups, I wouldn't know what else is really popular. Most students are heavily involved in activities including service, academia and faith. Athletic events are popular-- especially football (even during a season where it's the worst team in the history of the school). Anyone awake at 2 am is either studying or goofing off with friends...no parties on school nights (except Thursdays and holidays). Most students party at least once every weekend. No greek life- it's all in dorm life. This past weekend I went on a retreat and was so exhausted I didn't go out the next night. But most weekends I am either out partying or just hanging out with friends.

doors in dorms are always open - dorm life is an essential part of the notre dame experience. football games are the center of weekends in the fall, and the campus tends to also care a great deal about other sporting teams as well. there are a myriad of traditions every year, many of them events organized and sponsored by the dorms, which function almost like fraternities or sororities in terms of the community and intimacy aspect. there is no greek life at notre dame, but there is an extensive partying scene both on and off campus. it does, however, seem to be declining as the admissions standards bring even more qualified (and less socially adapted) individuals to campus.

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