All of our groups are extremely popular. Like I said before, Emerson is a passionate student body. People devote to religion, race, sexuality, and causes through activities along with preparing for their careers by writing for magazines, submitting photography, making film, or broadcasting the news. Performance based clubs are equally as popular. I'd say the clubs are one of Emerson's best features because there are well over 100 different ones that all have active, passionate members.
I was in Newman Club, which was the Catholic Club, basically. We read scripture, did volunteer work, and spoke about current religious issues in the world. When I joined the club, I began the now annual Spring Break Trip to do religious based volunteer work. We built houses, tore them down, and had a blast getting to know other college kids from around the country.
There are always events for every major and plenty of guest speakers. I remember seeing Dennis Leary, an Emerson alum, speak and he was amazinly down to earth and still hilarious. In that moment, I was extremely proud to be an Emerson Student with him as an alum. Other events include theatre, dance, acting, sports, speakers, career based workshops, volunteer based...anything you can think of! Something was laways going on at Emerson.
The dating scene at Emerson absolutely sucks unless you are a guy. If you are gay, you have plenty of gorgeous gay men to choose from and get to know. If you are a straight man, you know that there aren't many of you and you take advantage of that. Girls treat straight men like an axe commercial...suddenly throwing themselves at a mediocre man because he's available (only he doesn't necessarily smell like Axe, haha). Also, many of the straight men at Emerson are in love with themselves (that egotistical pretentious thing again) so many women just try to meet men at other schools.
People at Emerson like to party, but they're not very good at it. I can't tell you how many people i had to teach how to play beer pong or how to make a Jager Bomb. They are smart outgoing people, but not all of them have college level social skills. Some people at Emerson do have high party standards, but it is definitely of the caliber of a state school. I know one of the reasons I picked it in High School was because I wanted to go somewhere known for it's academics and not for its parties.
I met most of my closest friends while abroad at the castle or through other friends. Emerson is all about networking. Again, while I was abroad was the only time i lived in a dorm with everyone, so I got to know a lot of cool people.
There are soooo many yearly events I can't name them all! Emerson is very traditional in that sense.
There are a few events that go on during the weekends that don't involve drinking, but i can't say I ever sought them out. Not my thing.