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Another great question Anticipation16. I'm going to be completely honest with you. My first impression of the students here was surprising because I found that everyone, literally, everone that I met was genuinely nice. The minute that I walked into my dorm and met my roomate for the first time, it was already like I knew she was going to be my best friend. Then everyone in my hall came to introduce themselves. Initially I expected to make the majority of my friends through my classes and although that was somewhat the case, most of my friendships come from my relationships with the people within my dorm. Since there are no fraternities or sororities, each dorm acts like its own fraternity or sorority. There is an immediate sense of family, especially since we have a nun and a father. Notre Dame is definitely not a place that has cutthroat competition. In fact, it's quite the opposite. People don't want you to do terrible. They encourage you and help you up. I've always been somewhat competitive in high school and since I've come here, my competitiveness has gone away. My motivation has not, but I really feel like the students here are sincere and honestly wish you to do well here. You'll find that there are study groups everywhere and Notre Dame tries to immediately influence first year students to join study groups that they create at the Learning Resource Center. Coming from a private christian school, I also think that the catholic influence has much to do with the general student friendliness and overall student pride. No one that I have met here ever says that they dislike being here. Everyone that I have talked to says that they have loved every minute of it. I know I probably am making ND sound like paradise, but the student friendliness is what separates ND from other universities. Trust me, once you come here, you won't regret it.
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