<p>The infamous phrases i've heard of are Briscoe Discoe and McSlut. Teter and Foster also are party dorms. People go to those dorms to party, but it's hard to party in dorms! Apartments/house parties are the best. There's also frat parties too, but I haven't had much success w/those.</p>
<p>Yeah, I second the GE class comment. I'm in Psych right now, it's all memorization, lots of EC. Easy A. Public Speaking too is an absolute joke. Easier than HS speech. I can see why I have football players in my class. Also W131 is a joke. No one reads, no one discusses. It makes me mad, because i'm getting into discussions about the readings with my professor, and no one joins in, because they are all a bunch of dumb Indiana hicks who could care less about English. Argh. I'm glad the business school weeds these kids out. Everyone complains about the work in the business class, which is good.</p>
<p>I'm going to be taking Accounting A100 in a few weeks, although only a 1 credit course, i've already heard of kids who have dropped out of it, and how they've studied very hard for it. But other than that, i'm trying to do general electives the first few years.</p>
<p>Is the atmosphere at Indiana full of drunkeness? I'm not getting a great picture of Indiana from reading your posts. Drinking in the afternoon and easy classes with a bunch of dopes is the picture I'm getting.</p>
<p>The student body is one that likes to party. There's a reason this school is consistently in the top 5-10 in the nation for party schools. The drinking in the afternoon is essentially having pizza and beer, not really "lets go get drunk!!!" drinking, rather just casual drinking. At night, it's the opposite, as there are many kids who get alcohol poisioning in the first few weeks. Lots of smokers, cigarette and hookah, although we are trying to ban smoking on the campus. There are lots of kids here who don't belong at a good college, but then again, they are seperated after a year or two from the ones who do. These are the kids who end up coming here for the B-School, then transferring into SPEA, the one's who live in the NW neighborhood and go greek after freshman year. The B-School is different, it's harder to get into, and even harder to graduate from.</p>
<p>That said, there are ways to get out of this crowd. Stay in an academic community. Take honors courses. Use the resources on campus. Take advantage of the events the university plans. It's really a school where you draw your own path, no one is going to hold anyone's hand. If you want to party, get a 2.0, go greek, go out every night but Sunday night, then you can do that here. If you want to get a internship at a investment bank, graduate Magna Cum Laude, you can do that. The IU degree isn't going to deter any employer away from hiring a candidate who has a successful career here. Anyone can do anything they want here, it's all possible, it's just up to the student adjusting to the college life.</p>