<p>Yes you can. Just place your order on the website and select the pickup option.</p>
<p>Neutral site games are not sold as part of season tickets - just the games played in Notre Dame Stadium (which will be 7 this year)</p>
<p>there are two rec-centers – there is the Rock (Rockne Building) - no A/C … decent pool - two/three basketball courts</p>
<p>Rolfs - 1/8 mile indoor track … full workout room with a ton of cardio machines and free weights/ weight machines … 3 basketball courts </p>
<p>there are also other basketball courts around and there are fields near West Quad and around the Stepan Center</p>
<p>intramural are very popular - we have the best intramural program in the country - and that is a fact … it is run through a program called RecSports (<a href=“http://www.recsports.nd.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.recsports.nd.edu</a>) - check it out - there are stuff that is done within a the dorm (interhall) and then there are clubs and stuff.</p>
<p>for books, the hammes bookstore can be expensive - check out places like barnesandnoble.com, half.com and amazon.com to see if you can get better deals - but double and trip check to make sure you have the right ones.</p>
<p>Remember to use the ISBN number when buying books online to guarantee you pick up the correct one.</p>
<p>It’s probably too late for this semester, but another source for books is the publisher. My son got a Spanish textbook for $95 from the publisher; the bookstore price was $130.</p>
<p>International versions are also a good bet especially for engineering and science texts. If you don’t mind dealing with companies in Asia and Europe then you can really save a lot here.</p>
<p>Is the Indiana State Excise Police really as bad as they seem? I heard about the incident where they arrested something like 50 people (including several football players) for underage drinking when they got off a bus that was taking them home from an off campus party. I also heard that they arrested some people that blew a .00. </p>
<p>How much FA can a middle class family expect to receive? My family’s EFC is 30,000 right now, but without a large amount of scholarship and/or grant money, ND will not be affordable.</p>
<p>Does ND admit by major?</p>
<p>If I am able to communicate how much I want to go to ND through that essay on the Common App, will it increase my chances of being accepted?</p>
<p>What is the general vibe on campus about the upcoming football season? Just curious because I am like the biggest ND football fan that you will ever meet.</p>
<p>Do any old people sit near the student section and yell at the students to sit down and quit yelling? This is a problem in the rest of the stadium.</p>
<p>“How much FA can a middle class family expect to receive? My family’s EFC is 30,000 right now, but without a large amount of scholarship and/or grant money, ND will not be affordable.”</p>
<p>If your EFC is $30K, then you can expect your financial aid package to make up the difference between that and Notre Dame’s total costs (now exceeding $50K) But you cannot expect to get a free ride, or anything close to that. And you can expect that a portion of your financial aid award will consist of loans rather than outright scholarships/grants. With the exception of one new scholarship program, all of Notre Dame’s financial aid is need-based.</p>
<p>“Does ND admit by major?”</p>
<p>ND asks that you pencil in a major that you are leaning towards but this is in no way binding and is more or less asked for statistical reasons and to get an idea of what they are dealing with. But no, ND will not reject or accept you based on what your select on the app supplemental form.</p>
<p>“If I am able to communicate how much I want to go to ND through that essay on the Common App, will it increase my chances of being accepted?”</p>
<p>I believe ND’s supplement to the common app asks this question.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, I realized this is late and that you already go to Notre Dame, but after this semester, this question really made me laugh. I couldn’t pass it up.</p>
<p>I happened to pick a random, 20,000-level class in the middle of the day with about 20 football players (out of like 45 students). I won’t drop names but most of them were the big names that you cheer for every Saturday in the fall. There were also hockey players, baseball players, and track athletes. There were about 10 non-athletes and only a handful of girls. I was a little shocked the first day but I figured they’re just like the rest of the students.</p>
<p>Besides, I thought at Notre Dame, no way would I see the dumb jock stereotype but seriously, these guys reminded me of how jocks in high school acted, cracking jokes, showing up late, very obviously texting during class, sleeping, etc. The professor was pretty ridiculous anyway so he didn’t seem to care. A lot of times, the athletes were amusing and none of the other students were really distracted either because the class was kind of pointless (which is why they were in the class to begin with, I’m guessing). But still, I was a little disappointed that in this case, they did kind of perpetuate the “dumb jock” stereotype.</p>
<p>Unless we get those “dumb jocks”, we can’t compete for BCS bowls like we’re expected to. Admissions for football players has changed in the last 5-10 years in a bit way to accommodate players we would never let in before (see: Big Louis Nix who had a 2.8 in high school but is a 5 star, stud D Lineman).</p>
<p>^^Please note that I know some non athletes who “behave” worse than that in classes…there are also some athletes are really intelligent as well…you just may not have seen them.</p>
<p>I think you’ve both misunderstood the point of my post. </p>
<p>I wasn’t calling all athletes dumb. In fact many of them were just like the rest of the class in terms of contributing to the discussion. However, others were not, which like I said was disappointing. And being a contender in the BCS (which we haven’t been, really) doesn’t excuse the behavior. I don’t even think I questioned their actual intelligence. I just said that some didn’t behave well which didn’t help their cause in terms of that stereotype.</p>
<p>And yes, I know there are non-athletes who can be just as bad, if not worse. Most of the people who goof off in class aren’t athletes. This was certainly not my first class with a lot of athletes considering that there are many in my major. I’m really surprised that anyone would think that I’m not aware that there are athletes who are a heck of a lot smarter than I am and that there are non-athletes who act up in class, too. </p>
<p>I was just giving an anecdote of my experience with people who didn’t handled themselves as well as I thought they should. Someone had said that they hadn’t experienced that type of thing and implied that it doesn’t ever happen so I was just saying, yes, even at Notre Dame, it happens. </p>
<p>I had debated on whether or not to post it at all and now I regret it because I did not mean for it come out the way that it was taken. It was mostly in good fun and to point out that you’ll see both ends of the spectrum.</p>