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Extracurricular activites provide students with opportunities to explore areas of interest that they may not be exposed to during their First Year of Studies. For example, I was interested in entering the Mendoza College of Business, but had never taken a business class in high school. The Student International Business Council introduced me to finance and marketing concepts that I would not have seen until my sophomore year. Extracurricular activites have helped me to gauge where my interests lay, and whereto my career path is being forged.

the social life could be better but i can pretty much find somewhere to party each day of the week

It's fairly conservative b/c of the structure. Parietals put a big obstacle up for social life on campus, and as a result a lot of the partying goes on off campus. Although drinking is fairly omnipresent, the drug scene is almost invisible if you want it to be that way. Sports are a big deal for activities as both intra and inter-dorm athletics are very popular.

Very athletic based. Marathons and runs are happening often, and interhall sports are kind of a big deal. My roomate and I just recently started locking our doors because of some robberies. People don't really date around here - from what I see, it's either boyfriend/girlfriend, friends, or drunk hook ups. My closest friends are girls in my dorm. I go out about two nights a week, and I feel like that's pretty average for the whole campus. Fridays and Saterdays. Some people do go out during the week, but none of my close friends. Last night I was in the dorm at 1 AM, and I realized that that was the first time I'd been in my dorm on a Sat. night at that hour. We go to dorm parties, or to my friend's condo off campus. Sometimes we go to parties off campus. Basically just house parties. We don't go to bars/clubs because noone is old enough.

I have run varsity cross country and track here. It has been great to get the experience of being on a team at Notre Dame. It was hard to adjust to the harder training and different chemistry of the team compared to high school, but I'm glad that I am doing it. It helps me feel like I have somewhere I belong and something to be proud of and work toward. I also like all of the religious groups on campus that are available like Bible studies and fellowship groups. I have also taken advantage of the readily available servce opportunities.

Haha, dating? Are you serious here? A date is a sub movie and then maybe pizza afterwards. A relationship boils down to just someone that you like to just sit on the couch with cuddling and watching bad movies. But maybe that's not all bad, but its definitely not representative of the real world. News flash as well: you don't have to drink every weekend. And on the other side of that spectrum, you don't have to completely write off every person who drinks. The majority of us are responsible, drink occasionally and we know we don't need it to have fun. We have fun without it. But we also have fun with it. Stop being scared of alcohol. And to those retarded enough to be overrun with it--stop it. You look stupid and we laugh at you. Not in the good way, one of these day you'll look back and laugh too kind of ways. We laugh at your insistence that you need alcohol, its pathetic really.

My favorite part of Notre Dame life is dorm life. I absolutely LOVE Badin Hall and could not imagine living anywhere else. I don't know how Notre Dame does it, but you rarely hear stories of freshman getting placed in a dorm that they hate or with people they just can't stand. Somehow we all get placed where we should be and among people we should be around. Badin has the most incredible group of girls in it. Everyone is so friendly and open and helpful. We love Notre Dame and we love Badin. We're so supportive of one another, constantly working to include people in everything we do. I don't even have the words to describe what Badin means to me because there are so many parts to it. Badin's just a great group of girls and I love them as if they were my sorority sisters.

interhall and intrahall activities are amazing. lots of fun. going off campus is easy, and generally very safe. Dorms are safe, and friendly; my door is always unlocked.

Tradition is a huge part of the Notre Dame social life. Similar dorm activities appear again and again every year and unites the dorm together. Also, this campus has a tradition of allowing alcohol on this campus and many students follow this tradition. Gender relations on this campus is horrible, especially freshman year, and I believe it is mainly because of the single sex dorms. The single sex dorms and parietals make the dating scene and even having friends of the opposite sex very difficult. Notre Dame does offer a wide variety of clubs and activities though that allow you to get involved right from the beginning.

Safe, friendly campus where people leave their doors open 24/7. There are no frats or sororities which is awesome too. Parietals (no girls in guys dorms at ___ and vice-versa) at 12am and 2am suck though.

students leave doors open except when the creepy guy from lyons is stealing things in dorms. athletic events are extremely popular, if they're football or basketball or hockey. guest speakers, idk, i've never been except when my profs are the speakers. they're always during class. dating scene? no. hookup scene. except that now i'm dating a very nice boy and we've been friends for ages and the reason we dont go OUT out is the lack of availability of cars. people party every thurs, fri, and sat nights. usually people pick two of those nights to drink, one if the next week is going to be really hard work and all three if you dont care any more. frats/sororities dont exist; your dorm is like that because they're single-sex and relatively small. mine only has 130 people in it.

If you don't like football, you'll learn to love it. Or be shunned. Athletic events are extremely popular. Dorm life is important, you tend to get to know almost everyone in your section and in the dorm. Studying is big too, everyone works very hard Monday-Thursday, and then lets loose for the weekend. School isn't easy, you have to put in a lot of time. There are too many traditions to list. This school is built on tradition. Typical parties consist of drinking beer, playing beer pong and other drinking games, talking, or, if your at a freshman dorm party, being shoved into a dark tiny room with 50 people, drinking cheap beer and grinding on each other. But the boys dont get lucky at the end of the night, thats against the rules.

There are incredible opportunities here. It's easy to be part of whatever you want. I have trouble picking between activities, even. and there are always some great speakers, from brilliant thinkers to famous comedians. There are always late night events at our nightclub, Legends, for those who don't want to go out to the parties. The dating scene is totally weird. If you go to the dining hall with a boy 2 or 3 times, people might start to spread rumors. Also, if you date someone for more than three weeks, you'll probably be with him for three years. Casual dating is difficult to come by. People are either totally single, or practically engaged. I, however, am dating.

I think one of the most popular things on campus is Legends night club which provides everything from dancing to concerts and open mic night to poetry reading to comedians and shows. I think that it is one of the most dynamic places on campus and always has something interesitng going on during the weekend. I really enjoy going there. I am heavily involved with ISI which is an inter-denominational youth group that meets on campus. I just love it because there is a balance of roughly half Catholics and half 'others' in the group which encourages so much open discussion. If anything there are probably slightly more 'others', but I really really enjoy the group. The people there are just so encouraging and truly make a family network around you. The dating scene is pretty weak at Notre Dame, but that is kinda the case in many colleges. There is hooking up and then there is often 'in a relationship' with very little in between without a true college town around them. My closest friends I met through the dorm and through random events and through other people. There are so many traditions at Notre Dame I couldn't even get started....most of all though, there is football. I feel like most people are doing something on the weekends. Whether it is a party one of the nights or both of the nights, I feel like more people than the average student would expect just have chill weekends with dormmates and friends more often than not. There are always tons of things to do without drinking, Legends often supplying some of those things.

im involved in community alliance serving hispanics. i think it's a great club because it organizes different service opportunities around the south bend community to help bridge the gap between the latino community and the local population in terms of education and healthcare. our programs range from shadowing doulas/interpreters in the hospital, teaching diabetes classes to after-school tutoring for kids. we have organized other events, like benefit dinners that have been a success.

The football and other athletic events are huge social draws. Literally everyone goes to the football games. The glee club is a popular male singing group that most people love to hear. Dating at Notre Dame consists of two extremes- hooking up or getting married, so really there is not much dating. Closest friends are usually the people who live in your dorm or people you met in frosh-o. If I am awake at 2 am on Tuesday, I am doing homework. We have way to many traditions to enumerate. People here like to work hard, and play hard, so there is a fair amount of partying, but we are by no means a party school. We don't have frats/sororities, our dorms serve a similar purpose. Saturday night without drinking might include seeing a movie on campus or a play, going to a fashion show, comedy show, or event like Latin Expressions, or possibly a concert. There is a club on campus where there is usually either a concert or dancing. Off campus is really only about eating and going to off-campus parties.

its okay

Football games are a must, but basketball games are awesome as well. A lot of people are involved in service clubs, cultural clubs, and student government. Dating: most people at ND seem to be dating to find their life partners - the person they will marry in the Basilica, have kids with, put those kids in ND cheerleading outfits, and then send here one day. Meeting close friends: most of your close friends are the people in your dorm. Dorm unity is really emphasized here. If you're awake at 2 am on a Tuesday, what are you doing? HOMEWORK. How often to people party? Usually limited to the weekends, but there's always people that can go at it every night of the week. Frats/Sororities: None. (Good) Dorms serve as the tight-knit communities instead. You live in the same dorm (usually, unless you transfer) for as long as you live on campus, which for most students is all the way through junior year.

-Athletics (esp. football) are huge -work hard/play hard mentality (sometimes dangerously so) -always something to do...you could fill up your whole day and still barely scratch the surface of available activities -what you make of it

The first thing you need to know is that everyone, and I mean everyone, goes to the football games. Notre Dame doesn't have Greek life, and the dorms sort of take the place of that. There's a lot of dorm spirit, and students usually live in the same dorm for the years they are on campus. A lot of people party Friday and Saturday nights, but there are some people who aren't into that, and a very few people who spend their weekends studying...