Social Life & Atmosphere

bernie12
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:10:07 +0000

I know nothing about UCSD (heard it’s a bit intense, that’s all), sorry (oh, trust me, Chicago students are happy. You just may have hated because what makes them happy does not make you happy. They are very intellectual and have more quirky type of fun seen more commonly at LACs. I mean, honestly, the traditional “partying is the only thing that makes my social life awesome” gets old and mundane after a while). Yes, we have all types of house parties, frat parties, whatever. Emory is just a very typical school with far more driven students than average and w/o a D-1 sports team. Other than the latter and the diversity, you won’t find a huge difference between our social scene and that at other top 20s (as in ones not really known for the intellectual type atmosphere at say, Brown, Chicago, Princeton, or Columbia. You seem not to like that anyway, so…). Emory is a very “work hard, play hard” place (I think this is both good and bad. I don’t think academics should always only be viewed as work that needs to be cleared so that social life can be enjoyed, which is why I kind of like schools like the intellectual bunch I named. The two are not as separated as the typical top school).