<p>hey this is a question for a current JHU student</p>
<p>whats the social life like at JHU. Some people tell me that its all work no play at JHU. Are most of the people introverted or what? Whats your total college experience like?</p>
<p>It's a regular college like any other there are parties here and there is plenty of things to do. I haven't heard any complaints. Most of the things people say are unfounded.</p>
<p>No, there's certainly a bad rep about JHU social life, and it's founded in facts.</p>
<p>There's the "Hopkins 500", which are the students that are social, but many of the students don't "party" in the normal college sense.</p>
<p>There are plenty of opportunties for fun though, at Loyola and Towson, and down at Fels Point.</p>
<p>go to <a href="http://apply.jhu.edu/hi%5B/url%5D">http://apply.jhu.edu/hi</a> for message boards and blogs on student life! i got semi-addicted to reading blogs....it made you EVEN MORE excited to go to jhu/college!</p>
<p>OK, first take prpltrmpt's advice and check out Hopkins Interactive. There is a ton of great information about Hopkins social life.</p>
<p>Also, check these old CC threads...</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=10515%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=10515</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=71895%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=71895</a></p>
<p>And my opinion, life at JHU is what you make of it. If you want to be introverted and study all the time you can. If you want to party all the time and neglect your studies you can for a few semesters. There are a ton of activities, great people, and an awesome city.</p>
<p>Come visit and see for yourself.</p>
<p>Do u really think that if u ask this question on the JHU thread you'll get the right answer? Who is so brave to admit that he is having no social life.
(I am not saying that JHU does not have one..but its obvious that even if they didnt they wouldnt admit it)</p>
<p>vampiro, good point, but who other than JHU students would know better?</p>
<p>well clearly students who have never attended Hopkins, read those stupid guidebooks, and believe every rumor they hear about colleges are the best sources to comment about student life at Hopkins.</p>
<p>obviously their is a tint of sarcasm in what i say.</p>
<p>I am a student at Hopkins, and I think it is important to note that every person has a drastically different conception of "social life." You have to understand that this is a very difficult institution. There is no grade inflation, and a large percentage of students wish to go onto grad school. If you plan on coming here, you should be prepared to spend a significant amount of time in the library each day. As a first semester freshman, I had a hard time coping with this, because I was used to things coming easily to me in highschool. Here, you are surrounded by students that were all at the top of their class. Basically, you have to work very hard to be mediocre. This is expected, and if you go through with your study at Hopkins successfully, you will see benefits later. This is what keeps us driven at Hopkins. However, there is always time to have fun. Work hard sunday-friday afternoon, have fun on the weekends. I find being at Hopkins especially wonderful, because I am surrounded by very intelligent people from all over the world. This group of quality people make my time here worthwhile. If you want to have an overload fun, your grades will suffer. It's all about balance, and for each person it is different. I still manage to have fun here, because I work hard during the week. Working so much during the week makes the weekends much more rewarding. I can testify that I would not want to be anywhere else besides Hopkins. I may be giving up the crazy, partying atmosphere at some other schools, but I understand that this will benefit me in the future.</p>
<p>I'm also a student (freshman) at JHU and I slightly disagree with KHopkins09 in that if you're not in the hard sciences or engineering you can even party on the weekends and still do well enough to have 3.2+ (however if you are in hard science/ engineering be prepared to even sacrifice some weekends if you have a weak math/science background)</p>