Northwestern's Social Scene

arbiter213
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:04:15 +0000

I will answer your questions, but before I do, I will direct you to the lovely “search function”- there are TONS of threads on this point.

No, NU’s social life is not non-existant, especially if oyu’re not inimical to joining a fraternity (or at least going to them, 40% greek). Bring a fake ID, because the bar scene is big too. You will have plenty of free time or not, depending on how hard the classes you choose to take are (Engineer?), how involved you are in clubs, and honestly how smart you are- I don’t spend all that much time studying, but I know many people who spend twice as much time to pull down the same grades.

Obviously that means you don’t need to study 24/7, but there’s definitely classes and periods of hte term (the frequent midterms) where you will need to put socializing in hte backseat to studying.

A’s are fairly easy to get if you put in the work and are pretty smart. If you barely got in to NU stats wise, prepare to struggle. If you rocked your way in, it should be an easy 4 years.