<p>what is the easiest way to find out about college parties?</p>
<p>having friends, lol</p>
<p>yeah but what if the major i am going into does not have many "partiers". frats? clubs?</p>
<p>you can hang out with people outside your major</p>
<p>it's about who you know...</p>
<p>depends on the school - some schools rely on their greek system, while others are more into house/apartment parties. just get to know people through the dorms, clubs, classes. easiest way, all kidding aside? join a sorority. you'll have more trouble deciding WHICH party to go to, than finding one that will let you in. from my own experience, at least. and if you're a guy, join a fraternity. you'll throw enough parties, and some of your brothers are bound to live out, thus throwing their own apartment parties every now and again.</p>
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<p>Izzie Bear</p>
<p>actually my parents are making me live at home but i dont have a curphew. so i cant join a fraternity (cuz i am off campus) and i wont have room mates. and computer engineering (i dont think) is the "party major" so i doubt i will meet classmates who are really into partying. so would my only chance be through clubs?</p>
<p>just hang around campus and you'll hear about parties, the way they get people is through word of mouth</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>10ch.</p>
<p>Parents are making you live at home? LOL</p>
<p>^yep. (its a $$$ problem). i will have a car though. and no curfew :)</p>
<p>you should probably ask them to stop ruining your college experience</p>
<p>yeah you'll meet people outside your major in core requirement classes such as intro science courses or calc or composition etc</p>
<p>I don't know about your university, but at Cal, not all fraternities require you to live in the house. I'm actually friends with someone who lives with his parents about 25 minutes from campus, and is still an active member of an excellent fratnerity. He actually spends 3-4 nights a week at the frat, where they have reserved a futon just for him. Just be aware that if you're living away from campus and plan to party, you're going to need a place to stay sometimes. Unless you aren't a drinker, it's not wise to party and then drive home. It's obviously unsafe, and the cops are everywhere. </p>
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<p>Izzie Bear</p>
<p>At many colleges, including the ones i visited, there are "party rows" or something of that nature, a block of houses owned by upperclassmen students that parties regularly occur at on weekend nights.</p>
<p>red06, are you sure that those house aren't Greek houses?</p>
<p>I'm not really concerned about this, but it is something that has crossed my mind because I am going to a pretty Greek school and I am not going Greek. I considered it, but most of the sororities are very typical - thin, pretty girls who were very popular in high school. I have lots of friends, but I'm not thin or very pretty, and I have an ethnic background. The sororities are very segregated. So I don't want to go through Recruitment only to get rejected by all, or get accepted, but feel like an outsider. Besides, the Greek life at MU is very life consuming, and I have a lot of things I want to do with my time in college. </p>
<p>I am hoping that the Greek parties, particularly the nicer ones, will be fairly welcoming to nonGreeks. I'm also going to join the student newspaper, participate in at least one other club, go to yoga and Pilates classes at the awesome Rec center, and have a part-time job. So those are great ways to meet people. Plus, I've heard from friends the best way to make friends at college is to introduce yourself to every single person you make eye contact with the whole first semester, no matter who they are. If they don't react warmly, so what? There are going to be plenty of people who may not become a friend, but will be a recognizable face on campus.</p>
<p>I would certainly hope you don't have a curfew if you're in college...that would be a sign of over-controlling parents. But I do know non-residential students who do have curfews. I even know some whose parents drive them to their classes, and their college experience outside the classroom consists of waiting on a bench for their parents to pick them up.</p>
<p>wow i just got really depressed reading that you have to live at home. Try your hardest to get out of that situation because living at home would put a damper on the whole college experience, social life included.</p>
<p>I resent that computer engineers are not the partying type. I always remember all of those keggers we had. Besides greek parties are not restricted to greeks, but greeks get in for free. You will find out about every party by word of mouth or flyers so don't worry and facebook is your friend.</p>
<p>I have a curfew since I'm living at home this summer (30 minutes away from my school, so I'm still down there with my friends all the time). On weeknights, it's freaking 10 pm! What's worse, even though my school is only half an hour away, it's in central time zone and I'm in eastern at home, so 10 pm at home is only 9 pm there. Now on monday and wednesday nights, the nights before I have classes on TR's, I think that's understandable, but I'm usually not even down there on those nights. It's the days I'm down there for class that I usually stay late and have to be home by 10 still! And I have to do the whole "Call me when you get there, call me when you start home" thing. I'm soooo glad I'm moving back into my dorm in 3 weeks! Less than that, actually, 2 weeks and 5 days and it could not come faster. </p>
<p>As for parties, introduce yourself to people. You're bound to find someone who's like, "hey, there's this badass party friday night, you should go with me and some friends". That's pretty much how I found like all my friends lol. My group is sort of known as the crazy party group.</p>