<p>Is most of the drinking in dorms, at frat houses, at apartments, at bars, or clubs?</p>
<p>What do most people do when they go to a party? Are the parties always on campus?</p>
<p>All of those things happen all the time.</p>
<p>It probably changes depending on what year you are. Seniors are more apt to go to off-campus parties than freshmen.</p>
<p>are the parties more for upperclassmen or are there alot of freshmen at the parties also?</p>
<p>freshmen are obviously at the parties.</p>
<p>Would you say most kids at Brown are down to earth? (brown did get the "douchiest school award)</p>
<p>[America’s</a> 25 Douchiest Colleges: Humor: GQ](<a href=“http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar]America’s”>America's 25 Douchiest Colleges | GQ)</p>
<p>I don’t find the people here as being half as ******y as people I run into elsewhere all the time.</p>
<p>I seriously don’t understand the whole ***<strong><em>y thing. Well, actually I do know of a few *</em></strong>**bags, but they are the exception, not the norm. I don’t really know of many kids at Brown who are as “stuck up” and “pretentious” as some of their Ivy counterparts.</p>
<p>I think college students in general are much worse than than older people when it comes to maturity+attitude+respect+consideration. Especially that last one. SOME people at Brown won’t say excuse me or say thank you when you hold a door for them when they are carrying something large. Some.</p>
<p>My generalized take on people at Brown sets out three categories:</p>
<p>Amazingly talented and the most amazing character and personality.
Amazingly talented and not the most amazing character or personality.
Weird but smart.</p>
<p>Of course people fall in between those categories as well. Venn diagram needed.</p>
<p>I think you can expect a level of d-baggity at any elite liberal arts institution, because no matter what there will ALWAYS be those people with God-complexes or those who feel that only their super ultra liberal belifs are the right and only one, but there are also those groups of people who are just plai nintellectual and awesome. Those are the people you hang out with. You take the good with the bad, and just ignore the bad. 
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<p>Loved that GQ article though :)</p>
<p>The GQ article was based on a confused idea of what ‘douch-ey’ means, at least in the way that I usually hear that term used. Going by the normal definition, I’d say that most of the other Ivy League schools are douch-ier than Brown.</p>
<p>That said, there are some annoying people at Brown (as everywhere), and I think the GQ article does a pretty good job describing them. I just don’t think those people fit the label ‘douch-ey’.</p>
<p>(Hyphens added throughout to thwart profanity detection)</p>
<p>As for the overall question posed by this thread: Brown students are very work-hard, play-hard, but they do the work-hard-play-hard thing much more gracefully than at ‘intense’ schools like Columbia, where both the working and the playing seems rather forced and unnatural. Party sizes are as varied as class sizes, and there is something for everyone. Some frat parties at Brown resemble European discos more than the traditional ‘frat party’ image - something I appreciated given that I came to Brown directly from Europe. Freshmen are fully involved in the party scene, which is (by and large) safe and responsible. Most of the other ‘elite’ schools I visited while I was at Brown had inferior party scenes (in my judgment) vis-a-vis Brown’s.</p>
<p>sounds cool! bc some schools like i heard at Villanova, the upper classmen dont let freshmen into some of their parties.</p>
<p>What are some social options if you dont want to drink? Do kids go into Providence much?</p>
<p>Is there any chance at all that you have a car at Brown or is parking so bad that’s impossible?</p>
<p>Freshmen aren’t allowed cars. </p>
<p>But yes, there many social events where alcohol isn’t involved. You’ll have no trouble finding that scene if drinking isn’t your thing. </p>
<p>People do go into Providence; some students like to go to Boston for a day on the weekend, as well.</p>
<p>Most people don’t have cars unless/until you’re living off campus. You will have to rent a spot if you don’t have an apartment with one and that can cost $100-125 a month if you are parking on College Hill near Brown.</p>