Question about social scene/fitting in

imcbuddy
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:22:48 +0000

Hi everyone,
I’m a freshman at Lafayette College and I’m thinking about transferring to Notre Dame for my sophomore year. I don’t drink, and at my school there’s a huge culture of it since we have frats and there’s not much else ever going on. I don’t try to avoid people that do drink, and I know it happens everywhere, including ND. What I want to know is how important it seems to be to most people there. At Lafayette, it seems like so many people just live for the next time they can get wasted, and I feel like I’ve been isolated by everyone else because I don’t have that mentality. I know if I transfer to ND I’ll be exposed to the drinking, I’m not looking to hide in my room all the time and not have fun; on the contrary, I want to make lasting friendships and have a lot of good times. I just want to know how focused people seem to be on it in general…can I transfer there and still fit in, both with people who do drink and people who don’t?

Thanks!