<p>You really end up with the social life you want here (with the possible exception of dating). I’ve never met a person who complained that they wanted to get off campus more and then never did anything about it. Also, I hate going into LA (because of the traffic and parking – I’m always the one who has to drive), so most of the events I tend to go to are around Pasadena.</p>
<p>I’m a CS major, but most of my friends are Bio, so you can count booth of this towards the two groups. Our house has some kind of social activity every weekend. It might be as low key as midterm movie night or as large as our annual beach and ski trips. My friends and I would go to about 3/4 of our house social events and about half of the interhouse parties (there are 8 total). In addition, when we were living on campus, we usually went out to dinner once a week. Whenever it was someone’s birthday we’d throw a mini-party (dinner out, then cake and presents back at the house). I love to go to movies, and tend to go at least once a weekend, sometimes twice, and I get friends to join me about half the time. Since I turned 21, we’ve started going to bars every once in a while as well – Lucky’s, Barney’s, and Moose’s are the one’s we frequent the most.</p>
<p>So, overall, weekends where I didn’t have any plans were rare, and often coincided with midterms or finals.</p>