RPI students, please tell me about the dorms

zespri
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:50:32 +0000

My son lives in Bray which is one of the freshman dorms I think. I get the impression from him that RPI is not a big party place at all. My wife was visiting him last Friday and he told her that he has only seen 1 drunk person in his dorm, and that was early on in the year. The kids get in big trouble apparently if they get caught drinking/drunk. My wife pointed out to my son last Friday at the Relay for Life that she attended, that she was in the presence of thousands of students from RPI on a Friday night (granted it was a cancer relay for life fundraiser), but she did not see even 1 beer can or any students who were drinking/partying, etc. My son’s reply was, “Mom, this is RPI, there’s no partying going on here”. I’m sure that that is not the case, but compared with one of our friend’s kids who went to orientation at Vanderbilt, and there were kids by the dozens vomiting from drinking too much (at orientation mind you, with their parents nearby), I’d say that RPI is pretty “dry” compared with other schools. The other thing is that it is very rigorous academically, which cuts into the partying time I’d suspect.