<p>Is there a social life at RPI? When I visited I saw no students on the campus despite the fact that it was a great day. When I went into the dorms, I just saw people hanging around TVs. Lastly, my tour actually said that they do physics problems on Friday nights for fun.</p>
<p>I think there’s definitely a social life as much as you make of it. It is the student’s responsibility. Rushing for sororities and fraternities happens pretty immediately for freshman so their focal point switches out of the dorm pretty fast. Others have clubs, sports, friends, bands, cheaper movies, theater, etc etc etc. But if you choose to watch TV etc, that is there. I have two kids there, a 1st year daughter and a 3rd year son.</p>
<p>Pretty awful tourguide then lol. You won’t find me doing physics problems on Friday nights. </p>
<p>There’s a huge social life, get involved in clubs or a Greek life.</p>
<p>Sand and Joshua are among the most reliable posters on the RPI board and they are correct. Son just finished first semester and couldn’t be happier. He can’t wait to return to Troy tomorrow (and not because the town of Troy itself is anything to wrote home about but because of the life on campus and the great friends he’s made). Fraternity life can be a good option for some people and that is the path he chose. However, there are so many other things to do. The ski club is big and of course hockey prevails.</p>
<p>Hmm from what I gathered from speaking with many of my friends, I will be missing out on a lot of the college life if I go here…</p>
<p>You have many friends at rpi and they all told you that you will not enjoy yourself? That in itself seems a little contradictory… if you have many friends at RPI and you wouldn’t have a social life, that kind of means they’re sucky friends for not hanging out with you.</p>
<p>Honestly RPI social life is what you make out of it. No one will stop you from being a gremlin in your room and not going out. The closest you’ll get to people “making” you get out is during Fall rush for Greek life where we actually go to your door and invite you to come hang out at (free) events with us.</p>
<p>There are a ton of clubs to join, one for almost any interest especially if it has anything to do with technology.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to get laid, sure it’s a little harder here because of the ratio… but as long as you are not totally inept socially, you’ll be fine. </p>
<p>Honestly RPI is a pretty decent university and you can have fun here outside of classes if you make the effort. However, I don’t feel I need to justify to you anything further. It is you who must impress RPI to get in, not the other way around.</p>
<p>My daughter is finishing her 3rd year here. She loves it - mostly 
The only part of “college life” she is missing out on is the part where you get skip a lot of classes and sleep in and decide not to go. THAT doesn’t work out well at this one. But there are still plenty of parties, sleeping in when they can, every kind of club, team, etc. you can think of… She’s flipping busy all the time and not just with class and homework. Just sayin’.</p>