<p>Hi, is anyone on this board currently studying at L'Ville? I mentioned on another board that I was a junior there, but actually, I'm an incoming junior for the 2007-2008 school year. Any info on the campus life, activites, girls, sport teams ( I will play varsity hockey and varsity/jv lax ) and other stuff going on there. I am also quite scared the campus life will be too boring for me. Am I wrong? </p>
<p>Any info would be great!</p>
<p>Looking back at your other posts and your obsession with finding the right party school for college and where the girls are, I won't comment on boarding schools at all. You seem way beyond that. Just know this...as a former lacrosse player at Notre Dame, I encourage you NOT to apply there. No Greek system. Harsh winters. The whole Catholic guilt thing. You want to stay away from Notre Dame. Far away. As in perhaps you'd be more interested in attending one of our rival schools.</p>
<p>Well, it's not the best school for social life or girls, but the place is very welcoming. You will find fun without the use of alchohol or drugs. There is some pretty girls and campus is buzzing with lots of fun stuff to do. But, based on your other posts, you will not party as much as your expecting to. You will get use to it, and you will get an easy access to pretty much any top college in the country which is the most important part of your prep school experience (for me anyways). I actually think there never was any drug or alcohol on campus. Maybe you should of chosen another school. Also, it is definately not a jock school which seems to be the opposite of yourself. Sorry if I'm being very negative, but this is the obvious truth. Don't worry, you will still have a great time over there.</p>
<p>sorry, I just realized I made a couple of mistakes.</p>
<p>You want to find the girls, you gotta follow the meister!</p>
<p>please explain lol</p>
<p>good ol' dr. lovemeister. lol</p>
<p>hahahahha. do not direct him towards big red. far, far away..</p>
<p>it seems as if he is going to lawrenceville.</p>
<p>D'yer
I don't know; I attended a Catholic college (Holy Cross) and there was no lack of partying at all! The Jesuits were some of the biggest partiers at the school, actually.</p>
<p>The Hoyas were right up there with the partying too! Not sure if it's still the same, but in the days of Patrick Ewing and NCAA championships, it was wild!</p>
<p>Oh, well, keylyme and 4square, then let me be quick to point out that Notre Dame is not a Jesuit school. It's run by the priests of CHC...or Congregation of the Holy Cross! </p>
<p>And let's not ignore that the name of the school is the University of Notre Dame... or, translated, "Our Lady" -- so the whole Virgin Mary thing is very important. Mary, the Blessed Virgin, stands watch from atop the Golden Dome and all the girls know it and, well...</p>
<p>...I just know that jock8798 will be totally miserable there. </p>
<p>Priests live on every floor of the dorms, too. Did I forget to mention that? These are not partying priests, either. </p>
<p>Kegs are prohibited on campus. You bring a keg on campus...you get kicked off campus (or worse). Oh, it's a real drag. </p>
<p>I haven't even mentioned "parietals" and "in loco parentis" -- which is common at BS, but is the exact same "we're acting in place of the parents" philosophy to student life that boarding schools take with respect to their high school age students.</p>
<p>"Parietals" are the visitation rules. And Notre Dame has all single sex dorms, by the way. And visitation in dorm rooms ends at midnight (2 a.m. on Friday and Sat. nights). One minute later and you're in deep trouble. To give you an idea of how strict they are about it, I went to a girl's dorm to do laundry in the basement. They have a laundry service and there was a coin-operated laundry for male students...on the other side of campus from me. But I found myself facing an expulsion proceeding for doing laundry in a girl's dorm a couple minutes after midnight.</p>
<p>Did I mention that it gets real cold and being on the southeast side of Lake Michigan it is constantly snowing from mid-November through mid-March? So I was doing laundry in a place where I didn't have to trudge through the blizzard-like conditions. By myself. In a basement. And my last load wasn't quite dry by midnight. And I was doing some reading while the dryer chugged on...and -- BAM -- the German fraulein that patrolled this dorm through the night busted me for breaking parietals. Now, this was a 24 hour laundry for girls, so it wasn't a noise or a "lights out" rule that I was breaking. This was basically a co-ed visitation (or "parietals") offense. And I had to go before the Dean of Students and the punishment could have been expulsion. For studying. Alone. While doing laundry....at 12:05 a.m. in the basement of a girls' dorm.</p>
<p>This same woman had been walking by and even talked with me about an hour earlier. I was reading by two baskets of folded laundry. She knew there was nothing else going on. There had been no girls around all night, but I was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time doing only perfectly acceptable things. I got off easy...with even the Fraulein testifying on my behalf...so it was a devastating $100 fine (that came to two weeks' gross pay for me for a campus job I had) and 20 hours of community service before I could participate in ECs (meaning no lacrosse, so I had to tackle that obligation right away).</p>
<p>The "parietal" rules are the same today. And enforced with equal zeal. You can go to the link below and check them out.</p>
<p>That said, this is not to say that Notre Dame social life sucks. I'm just saying that I'm 100% positive that it will suck for jock8798. </p>
<p>For me, the fact that I wasn't running around having sex with lots of my classmates was a good thing. (Even if, at the time, I might not have agreed so heartily with my adult self.) It's a small, close-knit community. And I've got lifelong friends from Notre Dame, male and female. </p>
<p>You see, if you've slept with someone in college it's really hard to keep that person as a lifelong friend. Oh, sure, you might defy the odds and remain close to someone for several years. But surely by the time you get married to whoever it is you ultimately choose for your life partner, there are few (if any) of your former sex partners you should even be exchanging holiday cards with.</p>
<p>To top it off, Notre Dame women do well and go places. (Condi Rice went to Notre Dame.) I assume that this holds true for many of the girls/women one encounters at top boarding schools. So consider this: what happens when one of your college sex partners becomes your boss? Don't laugh. I have one friend in Washington, DC, who is in that very position right now. His career is at a standstill. His wife resents him working late and he doesn't get invited to social functions at his boss' home. There's no "chemistry" or "magic" there today, but there are unwanted entanglements from college encounters that make it tough for both of them today.</p>
<p>Conversely, I've got many female friends to this day from Notre Dame. My wife doesn't resent those relationships and we go out as couples for dinner, etc. I'm no prude, but I'm extremely glad that I wasn't running around campus trying to cut off potentially significant lifelong relationships with half of the student body.</p>
<p>Sexual politics is tricky stuff and it gets all the more trickier with the more partners you've got out there, especially if they're continuing to travel in the circles you travel through life. That, to me, is the best argument for keeping your hormones in check through BS and college. If you really, really like somebody, do you want to make that relationship terminal by sleeping with that person? (Even if it's another 10 years before it has to end?) And if you don't like that person so much and don't mind if it becomes a terminal relationship, then what are you doing by getting further entangled into a relationship with someone you'd prefer not to be tied up with?</p>
<p>This sounds preachy, but I'm also a realist. If there's someone out there who is all about party life, bagging hot girls, and proving his manliness to his hockey and lacrosse teammates...these points won't sink in and penetrate to those lobes buried deep within the cerebellum dedicated to rational thought. In which case, I'm just being fair in pointing out that that person is going to find Notre Dame and (hopefully) Lawrenceville to be horribly unfulfilling for his immediate and high priority needs.</p>
<p>So, for emphasis, let me point out that when it comes to girls and sex, here's Notre Dame's position from "Du Lac," the student handbook (which spells out the same sexual relationship policy, word for word, as it was back in my day...plus, as I look at the alcohol policies, I see they've made them even stricter again this year, so that trend line is going the wrong way for the aspiring party animal):</p>
<p>Please note that this rule is not confined to sex on campus. If you're caught breaking this rule -- even on spring break -- you're in big trouble. Oh, and it's been applied to star football players (about 5 years ago the starting tailback was caught with a girl leaving his room at 5 a.m. and he was kicked out for a full year) so lacrosse players don't get some special exemption. These are not "wink and nod" rules. They're enforced.</p>
<p>I survived. Most ND students survive. In fact, about 95% who enter as freshmen graduate from Notre Dame on time. It's a great experience with a lifetime "membership" in a national network of people who will instantly embrace you simply because you're a Notre Dame alum. I wouldn't want to dissuade anyone from seeking it out. I wish everyone could tap into the experience, but it's not for everybody. In particular, I don't see the OP surviving unless he is totally miserable the whole time. </p>
<p>Considering that the OP was told by someone in another thread that Notre Dame is a top party school and he said he will have to check it out, I feel compelled to be perfectly clear about relevant facts he ought to know about Notre Dame before, by some awful, awful tragic and cruelly ironic comedy of errors he ends up there for college.</p>
<p>Can I send you some Boston College brochures, OP? How about Michigan, Ohio State...even Southern Cal?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info on ND. As a parent of a rising HS senior, I'm more happy than ever that it's my child's number 1 college choice! No wonder ND is typically rated #1 by parents as to the school they'd be most glad their child attended! Gotta love the rules!</p>
<p>My roommate came with me to the office where my expulsion hearing was held. </p>
<p>When I was called in -- just me against the world -- he stood up with me to leave. But then he shook my hand real hard, not letting it go, and he said these words which I will never forget: </p>
<p>"Look, if they expel you, I want you to know that I will tell everyone I know that it involved wet t-shirts, handcuffs and large amounts of Wesson Oil so that they won't remember you as a total loser."</p>
<p>"Thanks, man. I appreciate your support."</p>
<p>"It's the least I can do."</p>
<p>"Yes, that it is."</p>
<p>thats a true friend... lol</p>
<p>Joke's on them. My friend is starting as a professor in their b-school starting this fall.</p>
<p>Basically, you'll either get recruited for hockey or if you're top 20% you'll go to a top10 school at Lawrenceville.</p>
<p>social life sucks here, check-ins every night in a terribly worthless location. basically, the middle of nowhere. The campus is huge and facilities are amazing, but most weekends you'll just be hanging around in your dorm. There are no on-campus parties - find some day students (or rich kids, of which there are an abundance) and go off campus on weekends if you want to have fun.</p>
<p>No on-campus parties? Never? I just assumed that almost all boarding schools had many weekend activities. Maybe not a party every weekend, but at least once or twice a month?</p>
<p>when i went to vist lville my student host said that there are parties.</p>
<p>People's definitions of "parties" can range drastically. Lawrenceville has dances every couple of weeks, and there are plenty of activities on weekends (ie, sat night/sunday). Remember, there are Saturday morning classes, and Saturday afternoons are for sports. Other activities include trips to NYC/Philly to see museums/plays/etc... Princeton is also a ten minute bus-ride away, and there is plenty to do there. Also, buses always ran to the movies and nearby malls. Then there are always the off campus "parties" thrown by day students.</p>
<p>Even more important, NYC is only a 55 minute train-ride away.</p>
<p>I always thought that L'ville offered a great deal of activities, whether directly offered by the school, or by virtue of its location.</p>