<p>@Gallory</p>
<p>There are more college sponsored events for freshmen, but that’s because freshmen counselors are typically a fairly big part of your life when you’re a freshmen (in a good way. Or you can avoid them altogether if you want).</p>
<p>You’ll have at least one study break every week where they have free food and usually some sort of activity. There is always IMs, so if you do those you’ll be pretty involved with your college. You’ll also have Master’s Teas which are not limited to students just your college, but there’s usually a disproportionate number of students from whatever college is hosting it. Plus, it was likely set up by either a student in your college or your master, and it will be hosted by your master, so your college will have its imprint on it. </p>
<p>There are also plenty of special events. This week in my college for example, there are holiday dinners and tree decorating at the master’s house. We have an arts week with performances and exhibitions by students in the college. There’s the occasional classical brunch with live classical music at the master’s house on Sundays. There are college trips to things like apple picking, Mets games, a performance in NY, etc. There are a couple holidays specific to each college. Every Friday afternoon there’s free food in the master’s office, so people will stop by and hang out for a little while. In addition to the bigger campus wide parties hosted in colleges, there’s a dance/party specifically for members of your college and their guests. When you’re a senior there are a bunch of things for the senior class in general and for the seniors in your college. My college has a wine seminar with one of the fellows of the college that meets on Saturdays. There’s the Mellon Forum where seniors meet for dinner and give presentations about their research. My college has a nice theater, and in order to reserve it you have to have at least one member of my college in your group, so that meant that there was usually a good chance that I had some connection to the people putting on the performance. Sometimes students will put together special events for the college. One time, for example, we had a beer brewing party at the master’s house. And of course, the college council meets every week and that’s open to everyone, so that’s another way to be involved. </p>
<p>For most students, most of their friends are from their college. As the years go by you’ll be pretty well connected to other people in your college and will have a good idea of the unstructured social events going on. </p>