<p>Since most people stay on-campus the first year, I don't have any worried about making friends and having a social life the first year.</p>
<p>However, since basically everyone moves off-campus for the next three years, I'm having some worries about the social life during those last three years.
Is it harder to make friends and interact with new people (aside from roommates)? Is there less vitality in social life?
I imagine that the sense of community is really not there due to this fact.</p>
<p>I lived in an apartment for my last three years and I was still able to stay in touch with my friends from freshman year. I also continued to meet new people through my classes and the clubs I participated in. With regards to social life away from school related activities, I actually feel that I had more freedom because my roommates and I could have people over for kickbacks or throw apartment parties whenever we felt like it. In the dorms it’s hard to organize anything too large or noisy without getting into trouble.</p>
<p>Other than apartment living other people also live in their frats/sororities or join co-ops, both which have more of a social atmosphere.</p>