<p>I know you cannot join an eating club until second semester of sophomore year, but are freshman and sophomores allowed into their parties?</p>
<p>Yes, they are.</p>
<p>To expand; usually on Thursday and Saturday nights (the two big “going out” nights at Princeton), the sign-in clubs are open to everyone with a prox (student ID cards). Occasionally a bicker club will be prox-only for the night but more often you need a prox and an eating club pass (it’s a colored slip of paper with the eating club’s logo on it; the members are told what color passes to give out that night to guests).</p>
<p>It’s plenty of fun to go explore the clubs that are open to everyone until you meet upperclassmen who can give you passes to check out their clubs. Once you get involved with an extracurricular like a sport, club, team, paper, dance group, a capella, etc, the upperclassmen you’ve met will give you passes if you’d like them. It sounds weird but it doesn’t feel funny asking for passes, it’s just part of the culture!</p>
<p>Each club usually has one “Member’s Only” night on a non-Thursday-or-Saturday night, but otherwise when they’re open anyone can go, with a prox or prox and pass. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Guess I should have mentioned; the sign-in-clubs will occasionally be “on passes”, too! All the clubs have certain theme nights that are especially popular so they sometimes need to do it!</p>