<p>I am more of a dating person, so I was wondering how active the dating scene is? Is there a good amount of students that do it, or is it pretty much non-existent?</p>
<p>its pretty common…</p>
<p>After freshman year, it’s pretty common. During your first year, most of your social interaction will tend to happen in the dorms, which is less conducive to randomly asking somebody out for coffee.</p>
<p>Ahh, contradictory responses!</p>
<p>according to the human bonding course in human development (HD 3620), every school is now a hook up school. and i have to study journal articles about that for the prelim tomorrow.</p>
<p>haha, I love this thread… lets face it, we’re all wondering</p>
<p>it’s definitely a hook-up school…but oddly enough the person people hook up with turns out to be that person’s boyfriend/girlfriend after a few hook-ups…</p>
<p>depends. this is a huge generalization, but out of the freshmen i tend to see more of the kids who don’t go out so much (and typically the “nerdier” kids) dating. Also fewer freshmen in greek houses date than not in houses. It kind of makes sense because people who are out all the time have trouble staying faithful, and when you have mixers a lot its harder to see a significant other at night unless they are in the house you happen to be mixing with.</p>
<p>what are the hu-lympics? I might be interested…</p>
<p>Speaking of hookups, Hazan’s bonding prelim is killing me right now.</p>
<p>The atmosphere is more conductive to hookups than dating, but you will obviously find both.</p>
<p>“depends. this is a huge generalization, but out of the freshmen i tend to see more of the kids who don’t go out so much (and typically the “nerdier” kids) dating. Also fewer freshmen in greek houses date than not in houses. It kind of makes sense because people who are out all the time have trouble staying faithful, and when you have mixers a lot its harder to see a significant other at night unless they are in the house you happen to be mixing with.” <------ well put. And there is definitely more dating as you get older</p>
<p>Another generalization: fresh and soph year =hooking up.
junior and senior year= dating.</p>
<p>could be just living in collegetown, and the ability to have dates that aren’t bear nasties ha.</p>
<p>or it could be just my group of friends.</p>
<p>fact:</p>
<p>come junior/senior year kids start to freak out about graduating and being alone etc.</p>
<p>dating starts or people become more frantic to date junior senior year.</p>
<p>It’s funny how true that is</p>
<p>You cant be serious. Please understand that the dating scene at Cornell is similar to anywhere else in the country; some like traditional monogamous relationships, while others like to have fun. 
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<p>In truth, I live fairly close to Ithaca and have a few friends at Cornell. From my personal experience, I hardly find Cornell to be the cult of Dionysus that some members here are portraying it. Everything comes down to this: whatever your fancy, I guarantee you will find someone with similar intent on campus.</p>
<p>If you don’t live on the campus/in collegetown and interact with people everyday here, you couldn’t possibly judge the social scene accurately. No one is saying that you can’t find people, we’re just saying it’s pretty hard here compared to other schools (as nearly every transfer will tell you).</p>
<p>You’re right. I do not live on campus or in collegetown, so my personal experience with students at parties and other functions is irrelevant. I suppose I should also ignore the fact I have dated a handful of alumnae.</p>
<p>^ alumnae =/= kids still in college.</p>
<p>…just saying that real life tends to make a lot of people more mature and/or want to settle down.</p>
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<p>I can’t believe people are disagreeing with this sentiment. And if they are, it means that they really need to get out of whatever little social bubble they have developed for themselves on campus.</p>
<p>some people only date/hookup within their own little bubbles though cayuga…</p>
<p>i’ve heard stories of guys trying to make moves on girls they have never met only to be rejected with disdain…</p>