Hello,
I am going to be a freshman in the fall and will be a biology major.
I am very big on academics and love to study. I do love social activities, but don’t want constant yelling and constant parties. I prefer a chiller atmosphere but still lots of fun interaction. I prefer a big room and am a big foodie. I am a girl btw.
Clark Kerr’s only downside seems to be the distance from campus and the athlete/greek emphasis. The distance seems fine because of a bus system. I am not really interested in greek life or sports, and the stereotypical sport/frat culture turns me off a lot. It checks all the boxes besides that with good food, bigger rooms, and lots of activities like volleyball courts and hiking.
What are your opinions on Clark Kerr and if it could be fun for non-athletes/greek life people.
I feel like I should make a flow chart.
I love Clark Kerr.
I also work at Clark Kerr. The chefs are the same, the food is the same. The Unit people that come in one time think it’s better, but it’s the same. BUT it’s a smaller community than the units, so at least one of the servers will know what you look like and you’ll probably sit with the same people every night and know the people who eat at the same time as you, and the dining hall looks like Hogwarts.
The far from campus thing: I get all my podcast listening in. Don’t really know what other people do, but there’s probably a lot of music listening. It’s a nice walk. Makes me feel like I’m getting some exercise in my life. You get used to it. Generally. I’ve known a few people who didn’t. So,
If you think that a 10 minute (it’s not 10 minutes. It feels like 10 minutes), sort of hilly walk, would be fine, you’re good.
If you don’t, don’t choose CKC.
But you said you like hiking, so you’ll be fine.
Yelling and parties: it’s basically a gated community (gated communities are bad for society though. Forget what class taught me that. Maybe theater). The frat people generally leave to frats for parties. It’s pretty quiet. If it’s loud outside of 10pm on weeknight and 1am I think on weekends, the RAs will get them. One time, there was a party at midnight for the nicest dude on the floor. We all surprised, him, sang happy birthday, had cake, good times. That was the loudest thing I remember.
The rooms are bigger. Unit rooms are like 2/3 the size.
There is a high proportion of frat and sports people, especially in the suites.
Girl sports are rowers and softball players. They generally stick together since they spend so much time in practice together.
The two types of girl roommate issues are roommate has a boyfriend who’s over too much and roommate is a mess when they get back at 2am too often. Both rare occurrences.
I don’t know what proportion of Clark Kerr girls are in sororities. It’s probably 30% higher than in other dorms (random number). Some sorority girls get out of their housing contracts after fall semester to move into their sorority. My roommates were not in a sorority. The girls next door who were in sororities were very nice and also taught me that you should wear your worst shoes to frat parties.
If you want to avoid sorority culture, other than answering the roommate questionnaire ways you think they wouldn’t, is choosing dorms over suites. Sororities cost like 2,000$ a semester, so they’re usually also willing to spend more for a suite.
There’s volleyball courts, tennis courts, a pool (lived there for 2 years. Never went looking for it), hiking trails.