It’s fairly laid-back – people have a lot of activities and work, but they don’t run around like chickens with their heads cut off. The dorms are all very nice, and people tend to form close relationships with their floors. The food is variable but mainly good. People are always looking to have fun, whatever that may mean for them. I love how the small campus makes it so that you see your friends multiple times a day, even if you don’t have classes together or live near each other.

Campus life here is hectic and satisfying. Everyone is always busy all of the time. A challenge of living, studying, and working in one isolated microcosm is learning how to balance the desire to spend all night hanging out with your friends with the desire to be an active member of the community with the desire to bury yourself in the Libe until all your reading is done. There are days and weeks when the balancing act works better than others, and everyone gets overwhelmed at times, but it always seems to swing back in the other direction.

Carleton is a fairly relaxed, light-hearted campus. Carleton students tend not to take themselves too seriously, and as a result are generally more fun to be around.

Campus life at Carleton is simultaneously stressful, fun, ridiculous, and entertaining. There always seems to be something going on whether it's PRIDE week, a theater production is happening, or a student organization is holding an event.

There is always something really cool going on on campus. You have opportunities to join a huge range of clubs, and there is literally something for everyone. As for residential and social life, everything is pressure free and relaxed. There is ample opportunity to party if you want to. There are even more opportunities to attend concerts, improv troupes, dances, and a whole lot more. There is never a time when you would ever say "there's nothing to do on campus today!"

It is hard to get bored at Carleton. One can always find opportunities to pursue different interests. The different campus activities always keep the campus in motion.

Campus life is: Unique, busy, involved, hectic, closely knit.

For the things I like to do, I have always found people willing to join me in numbers. Whether it is playing soccer every weekend, making an intramural [team] during winter term, practicing my faith, community service, or finding emotional or academic support, I have always found members of the Carleton community willing to join or help me. Because of that, I have been able to keep a very good balance between the rigor of the classes at Carleton.

Campus life at Carleton is busy and varied. People with all kinds of beliefs and backgrounds and hobbies attend Carleton, so on any given day or night you can find something to do with people who share any interest you might have. Because Carleton is so small, you always know someone you pass on the way to class, but it's big enough that there are always people you don't know.

My days are full of people. Splendidly hectic.

Always alive. Whether it is throwing a Frisbee out in the Bald Spot or reading in the Libe or participating in one of the many activities on campus, Carleton student life always has a healthy pulse.