Campus Life

Meal plans look good, though I have no prior experience to fall back on to make comparisons. The food seems great, and they have a program where you can submit your favorite recipes and the staff will look at them and possibly make it a meal one day.

Well, freshman year, you start to get tired of rotating Slate Cafe, Einstein Bros., Starbucks, Digger Den (which has Pizza Hut), and Subway, but you have to use the meal plan you've paid for somehow. Slate has gotten progressively better with time, and soon there will be a new student cafe in the new residence hall (construction on Elm Hall starts this spring.)

lunch lines are long, but food is fresh and priced fair

Who likes campus food?

The food is not the greatest in the world at the main dining hall but it is satisfactory for a small college campus.

Quality of food varies from poor to great and not a lot of options. For a small campus, not bad.

Slate Cafe and DiggerDen get old after a semester.

This only gets two stars because the schools food improved when we got rid of Aramark. The food is still pretty horrible, but it gets better every year.

Getting better every day. They recently opened up a Starbucks and a Subway on campus. The freshman dining gall is greatly improving as well with a brand new caterer.

Honestly, its cafeteria food. It is really hit or miss but you can always walk to Washington Street and get anything if you are tired of the food.

The school does hold a few fraternity and sororities even with our small student body. The Greek Life here is much how you would expect it to be at any other public university.

Available.

There are a few fraternities and sororities. They are fairly easy to pledge into and are excellent resume material. They are very active societies.

We have 7 fraternities and 3 sororities on campus. I am a part of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) which is a social fraternity. On the whole, fraternities and sororities at Mines do not conform to the stereotype of any other campus. We have a super strict no hazing policy and two of the houses are dry, which means there can be no alcohol on the property, but that the brothers can drink elsewhere. The attitudes toward Greek life here at Mines are pretty neutral because the majority of fraternity and sorority members are just regular people, a lot of them geniuses. The Greek GPA average is above a 3.4 I'm pretty sure.

Both party types and dry frat. Some people like that kind of thing.

Greek is a lot better here than other places because you don't have to worry about hazing. And many of my friends who are in Greek say that it is so much better than dorm life and you do develop many meaningful relationships. Highly suggest it!

The fraternities and sororities on campus attract a lot of people, especially the sororities. Because there aren't many girls at Mines to begin with, most tend to join a sorority so that they don't feel as overwhelmed by the ratio. While a lot of people join the greek life, it doesn't really impact the school as much as at other schools. They may host an event from time to time, but for the most part they stay in the background.

It's on campus, and there are a lot who join, but its not overbearing. None of my friends are Greek, and I have a very active social life. Greek life is more of a friend inhibitor than friend helper. You make friends more quickly, but often times you are limited to only these friends in the long run because of so many time commitments to Greek Life.

Check out the website: http://studentactivities.mines.edu/greeklife/

I'm not familiar with Greek Life, but I am super familiar with Alpha Phi Omega, which is basically Greek Life without the house and expensive dues.