<p>It maybe because i'm an international student who has watched way too much american tv shows, but from my impressions, american undergrads have a lot of fun at colleges with parties, sorority/frat parties, greek life etc.</p>
<p>I was wondering if graduate students in the states have the same amount of fun in the undergrads? Or does it get a lost more serious in grad school and less time for socials etc.</p>
<p>most americans don’t hang out with foriengers
and the amount of ‘fun’ will depend on where you go</p>
<p>@pumiliod Just in general, do grads have as much fun as undergrads?</p>
<p>I don’t think getting drunk until you puke is “fun” at all. Nor are MIP tickets, DUI charges or becoming so intoxicated that you fall off a balcony to your death, as happened to a student who lived two blocks from my apartment.</p>
<p>This is a generalization, but you will not find many graduate students at frat parties.</p>
<p>We do have fun, but it’s a different type of fun. In grad school, we are focused intensely on becoming professionals, so we’re less prone to doing the things polarscribe mentioned. I’m with a group of friends that goes out for beer on Wednesdays, but we just talk, joke around, and let loose in general. Two of the guys in our group are married, so their wives keep them in line.</p>
<p>While it’s generally true what pumiliod said about Americans not hanging out with foreigners, what he said could be misconstrued. The vast majority of Americans are more than accepting of foreigners, but many times, cultural differences put up barriers. This leads to many international students hanging out with other international students of similar countries to where they’re from. It’s nothing personal.</p>
<p>^What hesdjjim said - we have plenty fun, but frat parties are not our idea of fun. Most of us are in our mid-to-late 20s and early-to-mid 30s, and we’ve done the college thing before. Many of us are married and a few have children. In my grad program, we get together to play poker together, or have a board game night, or go out for drinks at the bar and chat, or get together at someone’s apartment for a beer and some conversation. It’s grownup fun and I’m usually at home and in bed by 2 am.</p>
<p>Incidentally I have gone out to party a few times in grad school, but it was generally at the 21+ clubs where we could go dance and drink for a few hours with some friends. Grad students definitely do not hang out at undergrad parties, as a general rule.</p>
<p>Those TV shows are trying to show the most flagrant of the party set to make an entertaining show, although there are certainly some crazy partying at undergraduate schools, some more that others. Some students more than others.</p>
<p>^But what Juliette said, grad students are more adult and the socializing will reflect that. I visited my daughter and we did go and see some live music. Mostly when she showed me around she made a distinction as to “oh, this street is where undergrads hang out, not grads”.</p>
<p>And I do think you have less time generally to socialize. You may have a pretty full load.</p>
<p>All I can tell you, is that the TV shows you see tend to over exaggerate everything. That being said, at the UG level in NA, there is a lot of partying. I never see grad students at any of our frat parties, in fact, most of those that attend my frats parties are either fellow greeks, and 1st and 2nd year students. I do hope that Grad school will be at least slightly similar to UG in terms of the partying aspect (mostly because I am so used to it, drinking age in Canada is 19 so you start going to clubs and bars at the end of your first year, lol in March, I was getting drunk 3 times a week, which now looking back, was probably not the best idea in terms of staying healthy), especially because (hopefully) I will start graduate school at 22.</p>
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