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Like a Hastings or Midlands, Chadron, places like that?

What is it like in terms of having fun? Do people go to the games at all or is there Greek life? Is there a downtown bar scene?
 
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SuperBigFan69 said:
Like a Hastings or Midlands, Chadron, places like that?

What is it like in terms of having fun? Do people go to the games at all or is there Greek life? Is there a downtown bar scene?
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I did. Had fun, but I couldn’t imagine going there without being involved in an extra-curricular activity. There was only one or two bars…lots of house-parties and/or country/river get-togethers.

I guess there wasn’t enough gay dudes for “Greek life”?
 
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I attended the big state university. But while interning at NPPD’s Cooper Nuclear Station, I attended a Joan Jett concert at Peru State. When you mention small college experience, what I think of is that I am glad my college experience was bigger than Peru State.
 
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uno.. worked part time and borrowed like most.. i had a blast, slept with a lot of girls.. graduated with honors, paid the debt off in about 7 years. It was worth it back then, but not sure if it is today.
 
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SuperBigFan69 said:
Like a Hastings or Midlands, Chadron, places like that?

What is it like in terms of having fun? Do people go to the games at all or is there Greek life? Is there a downtown bar scene?
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Two observations from my own experience and others.

1. The smaller the college you attend, the more new people you will meet. Kids who attend smaller colleges meet new friends. I went to a few HS friends house parties when they were at UNL-- just about everyone there was from high school. As far as Geek life, sausage houses (aka Frat houses) are the same just about anywhere from what I can tell.
2. Going to any school in a smaller city/town isn't as much fun though. Suitcase colleges.
 
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Small college in a remote small town would be tough in terms of things to do. Like Chadron State, or Adams State in Alamosa Colorado same with Western St in Gunnison CO. I went to UNK and while Kearney isn’t all that big it’s far more than the others I listed. Those schools are good and if you are heavily involved with things on campus it can be alright. Not much of a bar scene in Hastings or Fremont. Chadron you just as well join the rodeo club. Going to games, a lot of people do what if the team isn’t very good then it’s not fun. When I was at UNK the basketball team was making the D2 tourney and the football team was pretty exciting and lots of people went to the games.
 
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Back in the early 1980’s UNK was in the top ten of party schools in all divisions
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I am too old for the 80's but Kearney was pretty fun in the mid-seventies. I had lots of high school classmates who went there. The Fireside, the Back Lot, Dickie Duggans (is that what it was called) and the big steaks at Cattlemen's. One of my high school friends wrestled at around 180 lbs. He could eat. Cattlemen's had a deal where if you could eat a 64 oz steak and a huge baked potato, they would give you the same dinner for free. He ate both meals and then had dessert. I had a friend whose family had a condo at Storm Meadows on the lower slopes of Steamboat, left side looking up from the base. Nobody ever used so I could get. Three of us from UNL would stop and get one of my high school friends at Kearney and we would drive onto Steamboat. The drives were always fun going out on Friday night. Not so much coming back on Sunday
 
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Zeke Husker said:
Small college in a remote small town would be tough in terms of things to do. Like Chadron State, or Adams State in Alamosa Colorado same with Western St in Gunnison CO. I went to UNK and while Kearney isn’t all that big it’s far more than the others I listed. Those schools are good and if you are heavily involved with things on campus it can be alright. Not much of a bar scene in Hastings or Fremont. Chadron you just as well join the rodeo club. Going to games, a lot of people do what if the team isn’t very good then it’s not fun. When I was at UNK the basketball team was making the D2 tourney and the football team was pretty exciting and lots of people went to the games.
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My Denver born and raised cousin went to Western (Wasted) State in Gunnison. She was a big skier, and no place is better for college if you are a skier with Crested Butte only a half hour away. My family would go to Denver for Thanksgiving to see my mom's side of the family. I can remember my cousin getting ready to drive back to Gunnison. She had an old Volkswagen Bug that had a terrible heater. It was so funny to watch her leave. She would have most of her ski clothes on and a thick wool blanket draped over her for the cold four-hour trip
 
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SuperBigFan69 said:
Like a Hastings or Midlands, Chadron, places like that?

What is it like in terms of having fun? Do people go to the games at all or is there Greek life? Is there a downtown bar scene?
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On Wayne State. One bar for the kids, one for the townfolk. Changed names many a time, but the premise stays the same. TKE were dorks when I was there, but they've developed into a sold frat. You want to take a lady somewhere nice, gotta go to Norfolk or Sioux City. Lots of small town kids go home for the weekend. Ladies typically outnumber guys by about 3.5-1, so I hope you like to slay, because sometimes that's all there is to do up there. Actually, I just made that up. I was socially awkward, so I only hit it a few times. But real gangstaz could definitely put in work up there. So yeah, it was fun.
 
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I had a friend that played football at Peru State. He said that the coaches would be at the same bars at the players and they would just both pretend not to notice each other Hahaha
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Yes, because there were only 2 bars. And halfway through my college years, one of them burned down. Cannot confirm or deny that one of the bars allowed me to drink as a HS senior on a visit — and then the remaining 5 years I was there.
 
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