Imperial Social Life

I have heard terrible things about the social life at Imperial. So, anyone who is there, can you tell me abit about it? Is it as dull as people claim?

I have heard terrible things about the social life at Imperial. So, anyone who is there, can you tell me abit about it? Is it as dull as people claim?

Thanks guys for the responses. Hope it helped you too JimBob.

Is the pressure of work there really that bad? I go to a very high achieving school, and people say there is quite a bit of academic pressure here to do well, but tbh I have never noticed it at all. But I don't want to be totally out of my depth in terms of workload......

Imperial truly is a special place, but not because of its social life. From the people I know there everything depends on what you get involved in:if you join clubs and societies then you will meet people-but if you go boozing it won't be as much fun as at other places, on the other hand you're based, mostly, in South Ken-now there's an interesting part of London, with no shortage of places to go. Take the Imperial shilling, Boss Lady, you won't regret it.

Imperial truly is a special place, but not because of its social life. From the people I know there everything depends on what you get involved in:if you join clubs and societies then you will meet people-but if you go boozing it won't be as much fun as at other places, on the other hand you're based, mostly, in South Ken-now there's an interesting part of London, with no shortage of places to go. Take the Imperial shilling, Boss Lady, you won't regret it.

thank ye.

well I've already taken it as my firm, so if it isn't the place for me....OOPS hehe. Will def be joinging lots of clubs then though, should be goooood!
One problem is the small numbers of females there. Who am I gonna go clothes shopping with?
kidding!! hehe

At least we're not within walking distance of oxford st (i hope).

Me! I'm a bit of a shopping addict...not going to do any good for my student bank account. At least we're not within walking distance of oxford st (i hope).

i would disagree with you..unless you were not living in any college hall..

arg no, im trying to tell myself oxford street is NOT within walking distance so I won't go there all the time to shop!

something's wrong with me today~~i have been sleeping for 15 hours~~but my brain is still unstable~~

15 hours!?!? Oh you're on easter hols, that explains it!

I have heard terrible things about the social life at Imperial. So, anyone who is there, can you tell me abit about it? Is it as dull as people claim?

a bio teacher in my school (male) was trying to scare my mate (female) about applying to IC for medicine. he was going on about when he was there, there were all these notorious "dirty discos" which apparently were like orgies, and was telling her not to apply unless she really really liked sex and alcohol because of the large number of desperate blokes. that was the 80's, i would guess.
i have a mate there now, and he;s gay. the picture i still get from him is that there is a lot of clubbing and shagging, though apparently the girls don't get into that sort of thing as much because they've got hang-ups of being known as the local bicycle.
to be honest, i've barely heard anything dull about the IC social life, except my physics teacher met his wife there (which sounds a bit more typical st-andrews-ish)

a bio teacher in my school (male) was trying to scare my mate (female) about applying to IC for medicine. he was going on about when he was there, there were all these notorious "dirty discos" which apparently were like orgies, and was telling her not to apply unless she really really liked sex and alcohol because of the large number of desperate blokes. that was the 80's, i would guess.
i have a mate there now, and he;s gay. the picture i still get from him is that there is a lot of clubbing and shagging, though apparently the girls don't get into that sort of thing as much because they've got hang-ups of being known as the local bicycle.
to be honest, i've barely heard anything dull about the IC social life, except my physics teacher met his wife there (which sounds a bit more typical st-andrews-ish)