<p>Can anyone describe what the social life is like at Marist? D is not into partying/drinking, and is hoping to find a social group that feels the same way. Is drinking allowed in dorms on campus? It seems like there are so many activities on the weekend that you can still have fun without drinking. If a kid isn't into partying will they feel left out?</p>
<p>Alcohol is not permitted in the dorms, but the school has vans that take the kids to the bars in town!</p>
<p>I doubt my son feels left out-he keeps busy with activities and the trips to the mall. Actually, the school itself does not have vans that take kids to bars...those are the taxis that kids pay for themselves. I'm not naive to think he never drinks, but he has never gone to the bars or clubs, and has friends who like to hang out and have fun. He wasn't a partier in high school and he seemed to do just fine in finding people like him who enjoy watching sports, playing video games and getting involved in campus activities. He does have friends who do "partake", but he knows he doesn't have to do everything they do, and can enjoy their company anyway. He was very lucky to already have known someone who went there, and Facebook was great for him to get to know who else would be there on campus when he got there. Yes the partying goes on at this as well as every other campus, but its not everything....</p>
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<p>Does anyone know where the popular places to hang out on the weekends are?</p>
<p>Hi. I’m a freshmen and I can say I know plenty of people who do not go out or drink, but still love it here and are always doing other activities. </p>
<p>Alcohol is NOT permitted in the dorms what so ever, and yes going out is popular, but any college you’ll find that. You can go out without drinking or if you want to stay on campus there’s always LOADS of different things going on, intramural games, movies being shown, speakers, comedians, everything. The R.As are really good with having activities in the dorms for kids who don’t go out. </p>
<p>The school does not supply vans haha they’re all local taxi drivers. The first weekend the school actually warns us about the vans and how some are not very trustworthy and they have a list of reliable taxis available for the students</p>
<p>There are a lot of student clubs and organizations that cater to the social needs of Marist students. Here is the link: [College</a> Activities & Organizations: Marist College](<a href=“http://www.marist.edu/studentlife/activities.html]College”>http://www.marist.edu/studentlife/activities.html)</p>
<p>When our son went to accepted students day four years ago, a father stood up in front of the Marist Brother who was facilitating the session and made a plea that Marist finally confront the social norms that were pulling good students into 4-year drinking binges. My wife and I thought we were looking at a total crackpot. The face on the facilitator, however, read differently, but we wrote it off as “there’s drinking everywhere.”</p>
<p>That is so true: every college has sex, drugs, and booze. The Marist website cites an 8-year old survey that basically says, “it ain’t so.” But this beautiful campus in Poughkeepsie seems to invite students from all around who seem to take only one to two days off of partying. Sex is an expectation, and a captain of my son’s sports team made a big deal out of keeping score as to how many females on the girl’s team he had gotten to, and how often. Captainships are often decided by teammates but somehow magically seem to be awarded to those who keep the stories of the parties away from the Marist flagpole and away from the eyes and ears of the NCAA.</p>
<p>Marist didn’t start this, and it doesn’t really directly support it, but that’s the culture. We have three other siblings who would have loved to have gone here, but the truth here, I would never, ever send a daughter here, ever.</p>
<p>One other tip: tell your sons and daughters to stay very, very far away from the offcampus “party houses.” Google it.</p>
<p>College is what you make it, so if you want to go out and have fun you can, if you would rather stay in and watch movies you will make friends who like to do that too!</p>
<p>This thread is 6 years old. I think the original poster has long since decided where to go to school, Closing thread.</p>