<p>Is there any more other dates besides October and Jan for SBW b/c i really need to dispel the myths about “no social life” at CMU</p>
<p>I’m looking to do one too…I guess January was the last chance though.</p>
<p>After admission, in the month of April, there are sleeping bag weekends every week and you can spend the night on a normal school night, too, though there are more informational programs about CMU on the sunday-monday sleeping bag weekends. (This is just for admitted students.)</p>
<p>Thanks for the information!</p>
<p>awesome thanx</p>
<p>Oh, and if you want to dispel the myth of no social life, Sunday is probably a bad choice of days to visit- a bunch of classes have work due Monday, so Sunday night is homework time for most people.</p>
<p>thats fine. i just wanna know that ppl are happy at cmu and not depressive and obessing about only academics</p>
<p>The social life here at CMU is really what you make of it. I know a bunch of people who just go to class or stay in their rooms, but the vast majority of people I know actually like to get out and do non-academic things. My roommate doesn’t really leave campus, but he has a lot of fun playing video games across the LAN with other people in my dorm, and occasionally in the clusters.</p>
<p>On the weekends, my friends and I like to go to the Waterfront to watch movies and shop, and we frequently go to half-price food in Oakland near Pitt at night. With museums and many other attractions, it’s easy to have a social life if you put in a little bit of effort. I’m a CS major, but most of my friends are in Tepper, CIT, HSS, and even a few from CFA (music majors). We have a great time doing non-academic things.</p>
<p>The best way to have an active social life here is to join clubs, doing stuff that you are interested in. I do Kiltie Band and it’s a lot of fun. You can join a fraternity or sorority; I know I had a horrible image of fraternities before I came to college, but after actually giving them a try I even decided to join one.</p>
<p>You can take my word for it if you want, but if you do want to experience this for yourself, a sleeping bag weekend will be good, provided you get a good host. But I agree, Sunday-Monday isn’t the greatest time to come; I’m actually taking a break from doing homework right now (which is due tomorrow). I’d say come on a friday / saturday night and you’ll see just how social CMU can really be.</p>
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<p>there are plenty of happy people at CMU - some of them are even happy studying</p>
<p>not everyone is in their room 24/7 - and lots of the people who are in their rooms 24/7 are actually really cool people too if you get to know them (not all of them though! watch out! some are monsters)</p>
<p>if you are someone who takes their academics fairly to very seriously then you’ll likely be ok - just don’t expect tons of parties every night and do expect to work hard</p>
<p>plus don’t forget that there are lots of colleges around CMU (Pitt, Duquesne, etc)</p>
<p>sq3rjick is right about the social life here, it can be a lot of fun on the weekends off campus and fun during the week on campus. Most people don’t really leave during the week though but we still have fun expecially playing wii, gamecube, starcraft, etc. Just don’t break sq3rjick’s wii remote, I learned that one the hard way, jk.</p>