<p>There are 500+ clubs. There are always lots of activities going on, sports, shows, etc. While lots of students go out to the malls on weekends or out to eat, you could be completely self contained on the campus (“grounds”) if you wanted to.</p>
<p>Since so many are in state, there were always a few friends gone each weekend (me included! I’d take trips places once I had a car). But the whole campus does NOT empty out on non-football weekends. There are always lots of people around.</p>
<p>Speaking of Dartmouth, they made that funny video on Youtube where they prank the tour guides with the drinking song… UVA parodied that and everyone on the lawn stripped and ran around… Funny stuff. UVA has a lot of drinking/greek organizations, but there are a lot of other threads you can search for that were made recently talking about how sober students spend their time. There are less than 5000 undergrads at Dartmouth while UVA has 13k+ undergrads and then including the grad students the population is maybe 20k. So it’s not really comparable.</p>