 Academics are the foundation of any school choice, but an active social life is a concern for young students as well. Here's how students at Elizabeth City State University enjoy themselves away from the classroom. We have a ballroom alley, a weight room, basketball gym if you want to play basketball. We have a theater room. There's plenty of stuff to do, but I say school is just like being at home. If you just stay in your room all day and don't do anything, you're going to be bored. Just like if you were at home and you just stayed in the house all day, you'd be bored. So you got to get out, make friends and find things to do, you can make your own point. The band, of course. I was in the band in high school, so whenever the band does their thing, I get excited. They play band songs that I recognize and I get really hyped and excited. I'm also in a dance crew, so we dance on campus whenever we get together. That's my outlet, dancing. Even with my friends, I have a theater background, so we get together. We do some improvisations, things like that. Just walking around campus, just having a good time, just laughing. There's a place for everyone to fit in at ECSU with over 65 clubs and organizations on campus. You got all the different Greek organizations and they're constantly having forums, social events. We're always having parties, always going to the gym, watching people play basketball. It's a lot of fun stuff to do, even though it's not necessarily a big city life. True Fun has best served alongside responsibility and good judgment, something that's not lost on the ECSU staff. All incoming students, when they come onto the University, they go through a program called HAVEN, which teaches you about sexual related crimes, alcoholism, that type of thing. So they all have to take that, boys and girls, take it, freshmen entering, and then your Greek organizations also have to undergo this training, and it's annual. It's just done over and over again. That's done at admission time. It's done through Student Affairs. Of course, we continue to do seminars in diverse dorms throughout the semester on various topics. It could be crime prevention, it could be related to dating, it could be related to burglaries that may be going on. Anything that we feel that can help a person not only feel safe, but be safe on this campus, we try to provide that. I can say it's like home away from home because it's like everyone is small, but it's like family here. I don't have any sisters, I just have an older brother, but ever since freshman year, I've had some friends and I call them sisters now. And I can say that our school is just so much fun, like I'm waiting to come back after the breaks. Come back to school and start the next semester.