Ask a current freshman about CMU

<p>During DS’s (not frat) stay 2002-06, I believe 2 frats lost their charter for excessive public consumption. I think that put the fear-of-authority into the frat culture.</p>

<p>I think there was also one that lost their charter due to campus police finding out they had been hydroponically growing pot in the basement of their house. This was before I attended (prior to 2003), so it might have just resulted in some heavy restrictions.</p>

<p>Student Life and the Interfraternity Council are cracking down fairly hard recently. While there is little doubt that drinking will continue, there will hopefully be a much greater emphasis on risk management and responsible partying. </p>

<p>Some fraternities (and sororities) are on thin ice, but if any were to lose their charters in the near future, my bet would be that they lose it for lack of membership (gotta have enough to reasonably fill the house you live in) rather than rule-breaking.</p>

<p>Do you know anyone in the NROTC program? Is it popular on campus?</p>

<p>DS roommate of 2 years NROTC. Engineering. Don’t know if it was popular but there was limited slots and if I remember, the program pays everything plus stipend-don’t quote me.</p>

<p>As far as I know what LongPrime said is accurate. One of my good friends in undergrad was a dual major with Materials Science and Psychology while doing NROTC. It paid his way through school, he got to do some pretty neat submarine tours (including eating whale aboard a Norwegian coast guard ship), and went to nuke sub school after graduating.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t say it’s a really popular program, as the NROTC takes students from both CMU and Pitt for this branch, but I know there’s a decent number of people involved in it.</p>

<p>How is the science (or more specifically, the biology, chemistry, and neuroscience) at CMU? Do they have really hard work? Is it as hard work as those who are technology majors?</p>

<p>if you are doing the pure science classes, you will likely have a good amount of work between class and labs, but realistically it shouldn’t be as hard as some of the majors in CIT or SCS</p>

<p>I thought my chem classes weren’t too difficult (took Chem II and Inorganic Chem). Physics classes (Physics for Engineers I, Physics III, Physics Lab, Thermodynamics, Quantum, and Solid State) were at least on average with my engineering classes. It might have been since I skipped some of the lower-level classes where you learned important skills for later classes, though.</p>

<p>on average with engineering?!? omg. and i have a fear for engineering coarse loads. sigh.</p>

<p>is it true that CMU as more required classes than other unis for bio majors?</p>

<p>I didn’t know anyone in bio, so their course load might have very well been lighter than what I was experiencing in physics.</p>

<p>How are the athletes like on campus? Do they blend in with the crowd or do they form their own cliques? Are the athletes the types of kids who would be at CMU if it wasn’t for the athletics? And do any students actually attend or care about games?</p>

<p>Half the athletes blend well, and the other half run off to join frats/sororities and are never seen or heard from again. Ditto with academics – some of the athletes very clearly belong here at CMU, and some are… well, your stereotypical jock type, and they struggle a bit more with academics. Sports game attendance is poor in my experience for most events except for soccer and maybe football. They’ve been trying to step up attendance by offering free gifts to the audience lately but I don’t know how much it’s working. We’re a D3 school, so our teams aren’t exactly what you might find at, say, Penn State or USC.</p>

<p>So people actually DO go to soccer games? Sweet that’s what I’m gonna play if I choose do go there.</p>

<p>lol, while the crowds at soccer games and football games are larger than those at any of the other sports, it’s nothing spectacular. The stadium is pretty nice, but seating is about as limited as at my high school. In fact, when local high schools have games on our field they usually draw a larger crowd than we ever do.</p>

<p>I agree with completelykate about the breakdown of athletes. The varsity athletes in my fraternity are mostly all great guys, and i’m good friends with quite a few others, male and female. However, just like you can find plenty of non-athlete’s who struggle heavily with their work, it’s pretty easy to find athletes who aren’t the brightest of the bunch.</p>

<p>overall would you say people are friendly and that it is easy to make friends??</p>