There's to much going on at this campus! There are too many popular groups! Of course, athletics are big here. Our swimming team are even renown around the world! we have intramural sports for everything, and there are also many athletic clubs. There are various dance groups that are big: the IU break dancers, IU Essence (both are Hip Hop groups), IU Gumboots Dance Ensemble and more. We have the IU Singing Hoosiers, the IVE performers, and various artists from the IU Jacob School of Music. We also have an African American Arts Institute with 3 different Ensembles: IU Soul revue, African American Choral Ensemble, and African American Dance Company. These ensembles are also classes, and from my own personal experience, I must say that it's enjoyable for everyone who participates, regardless of your ethnicity! I will give you one of the many sides of IU by giving you a peek of my social life. This past semester, I had an intership with INPIRG. This stands for the Indiana Public Interest Research Group, a student led and funded organizatoin on campus. With that group I was involved with local volunteering projects to help fight hunger and homelessness as well as conversing with Baron Hill on his ideas about the Farm Bill. INPIRG deals with the social, political, and economic concerns of the students. Our past/present campaigns are but aren't limited to: Hunger and Homelessness, College Affordability, New Voters Project, Local Foods, Campus Climate Challenge, and much more. Each campaign worked on either local or international levels, and some got so involved that they focused on both. INPIRg is actually part of a group of PIRGs, which is in totality a nationally known organization that's represented in 14+ states. Although I worked for the hunger and homelessness campaign, I always had the opportunity to volunteer with other campaigns. Our weekly CORe meetings allowed us to get updates and service opportunities from every campaign. We also had socials such as open mic night or our special letter to the editor parties and posting parties "INPIRG style. We were able to create a social community within our group even as we made a change globally. I've sung with Acabella, an A capella singing group. I've volunteered and served as an ambassador for various groups on campus. I've also served as a member of the Board of Governors for my residence hall. This to me is interesting because the majority of my activities didn't revolve around my residence hall. However, there's always an activity going on. I've always lived on a thematic community. The majority of the residence Halls are made that way. During my freshman year, I was on the Teaching and Education community, and during my second year, I was on the computers and computer community. The benefit about living on these floors rather than on a floor withouth a theme was that since you paid a higher activity fee, the money that the floor got was a lit bigger. On one floor, we bought a tv and a ping pong table. The next year on the other floor, my floormates went to Chicago. What's interesting is that I endulged in none of these activities, but whose to say that those activities are suitable or made for everyone. I always had somewhere else to be. Predominantly white, black and other selective fraternities and sororities are very active on campus. A variety of greek organizations even have their own house on campus. The list goes on...