<p>Hi, so I'm a recruited athlete to Middlebury and I do like to go out and enjoy myself and I was just wondering what the social scene at Middlebury is like. Do kids go out every weekend to the social houses or do they party in the dorms? Is it easy to find parties? Is there an emphasis on going out on the weekends? I did my official visit on a Wednesday so I never really got a sense of what the social scene is like on the weekends. I'm not trying to sound like a crazy party animal, but students must have to blow off steam somehow...</p>
<p>Middlebury is a work hard/play hard school - as many are. From what I’ve heard, the sports teams tend to hang very much together and as such, tend to have a very active social scene together as well. While it’s great to have a group of instantaneous best friends, it’s also a good idea to stay flexible and get to know lots of different kinds of kids. There appears to be a tendency to consider social groups firmly established with those you hang out with the first semester of Freshman year. Not sure why that is…</p>
<p>Agree, with the following additions and caveats-my S the athlete hangs more with kids in his dorm, but he plays an individual sport, so maybe that’s why he doesn’t spend time outside of his sport with his team. He also made friends from his most difficult class, as they tend to study together and then blow off steam afterwards. There are plenty of parties, but also lots of spontaneous gatherings, like a snowball fight at midnight outside the chapel…
My other S tends to hang with the other febs from his class. They have gatherings most weekends for fun-they threw him a big 20th birthday bash, have poker and risk and other game oriented parties, and “I’m shocked to say there is underage drinking” going on at Midd.
This is J term, so there is a lot of skiing going on after class as well as the above mentioned activities.</p>
<p>you WON’T be disappointed if that’s what you want.</p>
<p>And what if partying is not what you want? I guess I’m asking how much pressure there is to drink and how much the social scene revolves around drinking.</p>
<p>Sky - I don’t think you will find a college in America (or on this planet for that matter) where partying is not a pretty regular past time… but I have never heard of “pressure” to drink. My S had two roommates freshman year (in a suite) who were not into the party scene at all and yet, while s has a single this year they all remain good friends to this day.</p>
<p>Of course, it would be best if more students shared their opinions, but from what I have been able to ascertain, there is a wide mix for such a small college. This said, if youre looking for a school where the MAJORITY do not party? I don’t know of one. And this is where the more things change the more they stay the same when it comes to college.</p>
<p>There’s the “stone cold sober” list in the Princeton review…</p>