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Hmm, so it varies a lot.
On average, people are less social than they are at other school. You don't go out clubbing four times a week and get drunk the other three nights; if that's what you wanted though, you shouldn't even be thinking about Caltech. There is something that is known as the "Tech Bubble" wherein most students rarely make it off campus; it's the idea that people don't care about the world more than 50 feet (I would say it's closer to 1000 feet, because it really should include Zankou and Panda Express) away from the borders of Caltech.
However, on campus people are really friendly. People here are genuinely nice people. I suspect that part of this comes from the fact that most of us were ... not so popular... in high school, and so it's easier to empathize with other people, and you don't want to exclude others. Furthermore, there is very much a sense of community at tech which is something that is one of the students favorite things - both a sort of Techer community (we've all suffered through the same very rigorous core) and very strong house cultures.
I certainly have worked over weekends - I would say that I've probably worked over at least 80 or 90% of the weekends since I've come here. I tend to work during the day on Saturday or Sunday, and it's not uncommon for me to work either Friday or Saturday night, but not both. I often go out to a club over in Hollywood on either Thursday or Saturday night, and manage to find time to do yoga (which is about a 2.5 hour commitment) about five days a week, and not be a super-troll for the rest of my time here. How much time you have to socialize depends a lot on your time management skills and your priorities. Some people don't have a lot of dedicated social time, but when they are doing homework it's really half social time half homework time.
Uhm, if that answered your question, awesome; if not, fire away a follow-up and I'll try to answer it.
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