<p>I'd like to be on a fairly quiet floor, but I also want to have fun some of the time. Will choosing a sub-free floor give me that flexibility or will label me as a geek/dork?</p>
<p>Sorry, that didn’t sound right.</p>
<p>IMO, the people who get the subfree stereotype label are the ones who are not open to trying new experiences/ are alienating. Sounds like that’s not you, so you shouldn’t even be worried about it. (For the record, I am not advocating drinking if that makes you uncomfortable - you can avoid being a total hermit but still not break your personal values, if that’s something you care about).</p>
<p>Also, there are lots of people who are put in sub free that don’t want to be there (ie parents make them check that box, etc).</p>
<p>Just whatever you do, don’t be the sub-free person who comes up to another floor at 11pm on a Friday and asks if anyone wants to study/do a problem set right then and there to a group that is drinking.</p>
<p>That being said, I lived on a “party floor” and had no real problems with noise.</p>
<p>In my experience, nobody really cares all that much what kind of floor you live on. I personally did not live on a sub-free floor but I had many friends who did and still do. One of the nice things of sub-free is that the members tend to more tight and develop closer friendships. I lived on a floor that was not sub-free and mostly singles so that may have contributed to how we rarely associated at all.</p>
<p>But still, it’s really your friend group that matters with what kind of washu experience you have, not necessarily your floor. And hey, sub-free floors have a lot of fun too even if it’s non-alcoholic!</p>
<p>For the general record, sub-free floor friend groups also have a lot of alcohol related fun as well. As I mentioned, a lot of people are forced into sub-free that never wanted to be there in the first place. And there are a lot of people who choose sub-free because they want to party, but don’t want to deal with a party going on where they sleep. </p>
<p>But yeah, if the op is worried about a sub-free stereotype, the kind of person who would worry about that more than likely doesn’t fit the stereotype anyway.</p>