Social Scene at Wake?

pinkcupcake14
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:49:03 +0000

Are there dorm parties?

Not in freshmen dorms. You will learn to love and appreciate this, I promise.

Do people go to bars?

Yes. Lots of fraternities/sororities have parties at bars, and people 21+ go to bars on Thursday nights. You can be under 21 to go into the bars, but you won’t be able to drink at the bar (obviously). But the bars are always really fun because there’s lots of music and dancing and whatnot.

Are they mostly frat parties?

Yes, most parties are frat parties, but Wake isn’t exclusively frat parties. As aforementioned, sports houses have parties, too. If your friends have off campus houses they’ll probably party there, too.

Do people get written up for alcohol offenses (or is it only if you like go to the hospital)?

I answered that before, but I actually don’t think (/don’t know really but don’t think) that you get written up if you go to the hospital. I know you don’t if your friends bring you to Student Health. I think Wake discourages writing up people who drank too much because then people would be afraid to get help for them, and they don’t want that at all.

Are frats on campus?

All frats have lounges on campus except DKEs and Sig Ep, although DKEs has a house that is practically on campus. All frats also have off campus houses, though.

Do you ever have to take a cab or car anywhere?

To basketball games. They normally run shuttles to the big basketball games, but you need a ride for others. This is seriously never an issue because so many people go to these games. Otherwise, you only really need a car if you’re doing community service in Winston or something. Very few of my friends have cars, and the ones who do hardly even use them.

What do kids do socially if they don’t drink? (jw not saying im one)

Wake holds a LOT of things on campus. We have a LOOOOT of speakers come in (we’re having Spike Lee tonight! We also had Thomas Friedman come in – I went to that one and it was awesome. Maya Angelou teaches here and she’s spoken before … a lotttt of people come here and the speeches are really interesting). Student Union hosts concerts on the quad or in Wait Chapel. We had an orchestra come in once (I went to that; it was a great concert) and we had Eric Hutchinson and Jon McLaughlin come and they both had good turn outs. We’re having Ben Harper come soon and everyone is excited about that. We haveeee aWake All Night and Wake 'N Shake which benefit the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research fund. I went to Wake 'N Shake. Both are really fun and they’re for good causes. Lots of Greek people and non-Greeks alike go to them.

If you’re involved in a club, you’ll probably be busy with that, too. On my hall, the boys formed intramural teams for each sport and they had practices and even made it to one of the intramural “finals”. Screamin’ Demons hosted an event in one of our academic buildings with TONNNS of food and they played our Wake vs. Texas game in there.

Even if you drink, it’s still fun to participate soberly in these events. They’re all fun and they make for a good break from partying if you do that a lot.