<p>Just wondering - I'm considering going here because of the fantastic academics. Although I have nothing against drinking and I do drink from time to time I'm not really into the party scene and frosh week doesn't really sound like a good time to me. I'm more into having like one or two beers, not crazy partying.</p>
<p>I'm a pretty quiet and reserved person - do you think this is a place I could fit in?</p>
<p>The same question comes up all 3 months. So take a look at the old threads cause nothing could be added to those answers.</p>
<p>I’ll repeat it just in case: no matter what you are into, or not, you will find people to fit in at McGill if you take the effort to. Not everyone parties and drinks a lot. Talk to other people, be social enough until you get to know others you are comfortable with. They may not be your immediate classmates or rez mates. Visit the various student societies and clubs, that can certainly help.</p>
<p>There would be thousands of freshmen at McGill. I am sure you’d find a lot of students who don’t drink</p>
<p>Honestly, if you choose to live in residence then you will not fit in. Residence revolves around drinking and partying and going out on Thursday, Fridays and Saturday.</p>
<p>Instead, go to the library, work hard, get top grades. And only hang around people who want to succeed like you do, people who aim for straight As. You will find these people in your 2nd year, 3rd year (smaller classes).</p>
<p>Trust me, if you do that, you will go much farther than the beer drinking drunkards will.</p>
<p>^ False dichotomy.</p>
<p>I live in rez and there are people here who get amazing grades, are in pre-med, etc. This is from a rez that had an entire fridge full of beer on the second day. There are all sorts of people everywhere, in residence or not.</p>
<p>Though I have honestly seen threads with similar titles at least ten times so I’m sure you will find lots of other people’s opinions on this in past threads, as NorthernFlow suggests.</p>
<p>As for frosh, if you’re not into heavy drinking you could also do rad frosh or outdoors frosh or some of the other smaller alternative froshes. I went to my faculty frosh and I had never drank before (nor do I really plan to in the future), but I made some amazing friends who were not seriously into drinking either (they’re from Montreal though, so it wasn’t a big deal for them). I think something similar holds true wherever you decide to go.</p>
<p>To be honest, in my experience as a first year (and admittedly I had a really bad first year experience) you might have some troubles not being a drinker. Yeah, you can meet people other ways, but people were always pressuring me to go out with them and acting like there was something wrong with me for not being into clubbing. </p>
<p>But, I think at any university you go to, students are going to be the same. Just do what you do and if people aren’t into it, don’t try to change just to make friends. If people can’t respect that you don’t want to drink and/or party, that’s really their problem.</p>