A Few Questions about Indiana!

linz1990
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:23:08 +0000

1.) mostly they are the typical state school dorms. All the ones I’ve ever been in have the cinderblock walls you were talking about, but there are several dorms that have AC. Also, I believe Eigenmann has some triple rooms, and the dorms I’m going to live in have individual bathrooms with a toilet and shower. There aren’t honors dorms, but there are honors floors in each “neighborhood.” (When you request your dorm, you request what neighborhood you want be in instead of specific residence halls). There are also Freshman Interest Groups you can request that live in the same residence hall. You can read more about them here: [Freshman Interest Groups - What is a FIG?](http://figs.indiana.edu/student). Many of the residence halls have some kind of cafeteria, or convenience store. I’ve only eaten in the dorms twice, but the food is what you’d expect from a college cafeteria. There are several restaurants downtown; kirkwood has a lot of chain restaurants and 4th street has several ethnic restaurants.

2.) The Student Recreational Sports Center, or SRSC, is actually a pretty nice, new building. The pool is great (and there’s another one at the hyper building). The SRSC has a track, basketball hoops, a weights room, and places where you can take various workout classes. Here’s a link to the SRSC website [Home | IU Campus Recreational Sports](http://www.iurecsports.org/)

3.) At orientation all students had the opportunity to sign up for football/basketball tickets and receive them for all the home games (tickets were VERY easy to get). There’s a student section for football games, and students can sit wherever. I’m not sure exactly how the basketball games work, but there isn’t a specific student section.

4.) IU has several club sports, which are competitive but not as serious as varsity sports. It also has several intramural sports, which are just for fun. IU has intramural basketball, but I’m not sure about club basketball. Listings for club/intramural sports are on the SRSC website.

5.) I think that I’m not the right person to answer this question, but I’d say you can probably double major in journalism and sports management. I have a friend who started out as a psychology/english major and is now double majoring in journalism and political science.