<p>My son was accepted into Johns Hopkins. I have the impression that the school is full of bookworms, serious kids, etc. My son is very bright and serious, but he also likes to have fun. He hasn't been home on a Friday or Saturday night in at least four years.</p>
<p>Will he have a good time at JHU? Or are the kids who got accepted (and are going) out to have a good time in college too. I don't want him sitting in his dorm room on Fridays and Saturdays because everyone is A-Anal about their grades.</p>
<p>So...for all of you kids that got admitted, do you also want to enjoy your college years or just study to death?</p>
<p>whaaaaaaaaaaa!.. great post. But seriously-- the kids accepted to Hopkins are more than just numbers or bookworms. A lot will work hard, but also play hard too!</p>
<p>I feel your son's pain. I am definitely going to JHU (admitted ED), and the social aspect of the school had me a bit worried for a while. I go to an all girls boarding school now, and I am looking forward to college to be able to have a bit more fun. I'm just expecting to make the best out of the situation - if your son wants to have fun, I am sure that he will be able to find it, or make his own fun.</p>
<p>Yeah...at Hopkins I've heard your social life is what you make of it. The social scene won't be anything like the large public schools (OSU, PSU, or even UVA and Michigan). I'm sure there are plenty of outgoing and hardworking students at Hopkins and it shouldn't be difficult to find something fun to do if you get along easily with others. Just don't expect the fun to come to you - you'll have to go out and find it. If I end up attending Hopkins I certainly hope we have a fun class of '09 - hoping that the admissions staff didn't accept only bookworms, grade-grubbers, and class-rank monkeys. :/</p>
<p>It is definitely possible to have fun at Hopkins... and that fun runs the gamut from traditional frat parties to random 2am diner runs and weird excursions in the city. </p>
<p>From what I've seen and heard, our class is going to be amazing. Every year, things have gotten better at Hopkins, and we're set to continue that trend.</p>
<p>mos def silver4...
xnwc87 - is there an urban part of RI? haha, jk
asdfTT123 - i am not one of those people that you mentioned... I will be where the party is at at Hopkins... :)</p>
<p>"He hasn't been home on a Friday or Saturday night in at least four years".... wow is that an indication that he is "cool?"</p>
<p>I'm just wondering-- "I don't want him sitting in his dorm room on Fridays and Saturdays because everyone is A-Anal about their grades"--do you know anything about JHU or are you going off of "rumors."</p>
<p>Believe me, it's up to your son and your son only if he enjoys JHU. I know he'll have a good time if he's outgoing-- and then he'll also have a stellar education to boot.</p>
<p>I plan on being a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll on this one. School work is definately my number one priority (especially for the cost! aiya!). But I want my fair share of relaxation time as well. I'm glad I'm not the only one, and I look forward to <em>hopefully</em> meeting your son! But yeah, we're all friends here! ^_^</p>
<p>There are certainly party people at Hopkins. There are party people at Stanford and Yale too. Maybe if some Hopkins students partied a little less in HS, they would have had better grades, and made Stanford or Yale.</p>
<p>Personality and sociableness aside, do you fear that the rigorous worklaod at Hopkins stifles the ability to have time for a social life? (It's really all about managing your time- and of course taking classes you are interested in and enjoy).<br>
Or are you generalizing about the personalities of Hopkins students? At all top colleges (Brown, MIT, Penn, whatever...) there are cool people, and not so cool people. There's no Hopkins type. There's not even a typical pre-med student. I met this beautiful blond pre-med at Hopkins who was a Spanish major and in a singing group. She's in a sorority at Hopkins but her best friend @ Hopkins isn't. She's says it's a small friendly school and everyone knows everyone else and most students do their own thing. There's so much diversity at Hopkins and that's what makes it a great school.</p>
<p>"He hasn't been home on a Friday or Saturday night in at least four years".... wow is that an indication that he is "cool?"</p>
<p>No...in response to the above, it's not. It's just what kids in the suburbs do, whether you are cool, a jock a nerd, etc. Its the culture of our surrounding area.</p>
<p>And the kids in my son's high schools that are labeled cool? Well, for the most part, none of them are receiving acceptances even at so-called state "safety schools". Niether my son nor his friends are part of that "cool crowd". And that's not to say anything negative about those kids. Some of them are really nice, and I have known most of them since kindergarden. They just walked around with an attitude that they were better than everyone, most of them dropped out of sports after 9th grade, and spent their weekends drinking, massive coed sleep-overs, etc." I think now that they are realizing the mistakes that they made.</p>
<p>I was accepted RD and plan on attending...and I am definitely not a bookworm. I'm definitely excited about learning, but I'm also looking for a good time, so no, the admissions staff did not just select nerds who study all the time. My only concern is safety.</p>
<p>" and that fun runs the gamut from traditional frat parties to random 2am diner runs and weird excursions in the city"</p>
<p>Stargal, JHU has an escort shuttle service that goes within a 2mile radius of campus til I believe 4 or 5am. So if you want to go to a frat party at night, you can call the shuttle and get door to door service.</p>
<p>charmedone - I had to make the same decision...very tough for me. I chose Hopkins because its the big city, and because of biophysics. And also, I'm trying to get out of the South, love it here in Texas, but I'm ready for a change. But you don't have to agree with me, just follow your heart.</p>
<p>When we visited JHU, most students said that they were not comfortable returning late at night, or using the buses after 11:00 p.m. One kid told us he spent his free evenings playing video games in the dorm, and that when most kids left campus, it was just to go out and eat. </p>
<p>If you are imagining a large city full of museums, cultural events and parks, Baltimore is not it. In fact students kept talking about their trips to DC, as if JHU is in Washington D.C., but I guess they have to go down to DC for their entertainment.</p>
<p>chocoholic, That's a little strange--JHU is across the street from both a museum and a park! The Walters Gallery isn't that far away. Granted that's not as many museums as DC has, but I think I counted once and there are more museums in DC than in New York City... So no, I wouldn't include Baltimore among the large cities, but it certainly has some of the cultural things one would expect to find in a city--museums, theatre, opera, classical music. And a lot of those things are way cheaper in Baltimore than they are in D.C. I know that when my daughter went on an opera kick, we headed north to Baltimore rather than South to the District, in part to save some money. There's also a wonderful park--maybe up 83?--that unfortunately I can't remember the name of right now... Druid Hill!! Maybe the kids didn't mention "trips" to Baltimore because they just take it for granted that they do things in their own city.</p>