<p>What is the social life like?</p>
<p>Without frats, is the beer/Animal house culture that makes college fun (in my opinion) lacking?</p>
<p>Williams generally is reputed to have a lot of drunken partying - can’t speak from experience though, as I was waitlisted (■■■).</p>
<p>Don’t you worry, there is no lack drunken dance parties on the weekends. Word harder during the week, play harder on the weekends is the unofficial student mantra.</p>
<p>To non-partygoers: don’t you worry either. I can’t really explain how much of a dichotomy your weekends can be without explaining my own habits… last weekend I went to house-parties and Goodrich for dancing/drinking/general debauchery. This weekend I went to two performances and hung out at Snack Bar and Paresky just talking with friends, sober the whole time. You can choose to do so many things.</p>
<p>kkari, thanks for writing this. That sounds so normal! 
I’ve been a little concerned because my D is a non-drinker and non-partier (would much prefer your second weekend) and a couple of posters have claimed that all there is in Williams is a) drunken idiotic debauchery and b) old lady knitting, off in a corner. Glad to see more evidence that this is just not true. By the way, during the admitted students function, my D said people were really upfront to her about the frat style drinking; it didn’t bother her; in fact, their openness and honesty was one of the things that really appealed to her.</p>