Hi, this is GAF and in this video, I'm going to show you the nightlife at UIUC
How are all this more than
40,000 students having fun every single night. I'm going to show you the best things to do in this place
I've been here only for two months so probably I haven't experienced every single moment and
Event if you are a senior student if you are a more experienced student, and if you want to add something more
Please add it in the comments and everybody can just learn something new I guess
Thank you. I'm gonna talk about three things
That usually most of college students - which are house parties
barn dances and
bars
So let's start with house parties house parties
Can be very different they can go from very small birthday parties like if I organize a house party
to massive fraternities house party for Halloween
So they can vary a lot usually parties start around 10 p.m.. And they finish around 2 a.m.
It depends on the party some party can last longer some party can last less and some parties can just be sort of pre games
They usually are in
Houses or apartments on campus or students can easily go there?
The music it depends on the party
but if you talk about fraternities
parties there is usually those kinds of hip-hop or rapper songs and people start twerking and
You can see different things on the party and it gets very crazy sometimes in terms of alcohol
It could be bring your own booze
But if you go to fraternities usually they provide alcohol
which is for me is actually crazy and the two most common things are jungle juice and
Beers in this case is probably gonna be the cheapest one which is natural light. It does the job
it's not the best beer but it does the job and
Jungle juice is something that I still need to understand how it is made
It could be a mix vodkas sweetie stuff is like a mixer drink but
It makes you dizzy, so it's fine and people at this party. They usually
Dance they can have a chat they can have conversations they can meet new people or they can usually play all those kind of different
Alcoholic games from the most classic beer pong to stack to all such crazy games
That will make you drink if you want to drink at parties you always gonna find a way to drink
It doesn't matter if you're underage
Alcohol is always there in terms of outfit it depends on the party some parties are themed parties
so you should dress up for the occasions an
Example would be the Halloween party you need to bring a costume with you
you need to be a character or whatever you want because
You know it's pretty cool to be all together with the particular costumes
I love this ideas last time at the Halloween party. I was actually a hippie and it was fun
going to a party going to Halloween
How to get in
Usually you should have an invitation
I mean you shouldn't crash into other parties
But I'm just saying if you are a girl you can basically go wherever you like
Usually fraternities they open the doors to girls, but when it happens that you are a boy like me
haha
It gets a little bit tricky, man
You cannot just pop up and say hey, what's up?
No, it's not gonna work. You probably need to bring more more more girls or maybe some alcohol
maybe you might have a chance to get in I
Mean there are so many parties usually that it doesn't matter you can just go to another one
overall I love
House parties. I think is one of the best place to meet new people
It could be girls
It could be boys whoever you are into and it's also a nice place to have like some drinks
charts and just dance
When there is like Latin vibes like despacito
Now let's talk about barn dances
those kind of event when you need to dress up as a
Cowboy, I would say as country as you can are probably the most American things. I've been to and
Yeah, flannel shirts jeans
boots
Whatever you like just to make you as
American as possible and it's all about BARN DANCE
And you stay in a bar and you dance with all your friends
I've only been to one so I can only give you a rough idea
How it's like and how it's the atmosphere over there usually they starts around 8:00 7:00 p.m.
And then they finish around
11 or 10 because people then go to bars and
They are not situated near campus. They are outside outside town
Whoever is organising. We have also some school buses and after pre-gaming at some place
Everybody's gonna get onto the buses and then go over to the barn dance
most of the time people are very very fucked up I
Would say hammered and on the bus you can see different things going on. it's pretty fun over there
You can also get alcohol
There is usually a sort of a bar
when
sometimes they check sometimes they don't check for IDs and I can sell you mixed drinks or some beers or whatever you you fancy and
There could be some food at the one I've been to there was some pizza from Papa John's
which I really appreciated even if it's not the best pizza ever it's still food and
sometimes you are always hungry when you are especially when you are a little bit drunk and
Music don't really care if you don't know the country music
because
There's gonna be a lot, but everybody is gonna be
Welcome and it's gonna try to make you dance at least. That's what happened to me
50% was I will say country music and the other 50% were popular songs of
even like old musics
And I actually I actually like that because many people are dancing and there is all the this atmosphere of
lights
and
posters and
Hay is everywhere it's kind of cool in a way. I actually enjoyed it a lot
Yeah, usually if you wanted to get to barn dance there are register organizations that
Usually plan these kind of things or fraternities sororities
Usually is around $10 to get there for the bus tickets
rather than that
It's a very worth experience
It's just very sad that they're not has many barn dance as you would like to I only been to one
Because I didn't actually have the opportunity to go to more you have to know so many
Organizations so barn dances are a great place to just go there
Sing along and dance with all these countries and popular hits
All Americans for sure and you can also enjoy some drinks
Have a shot and relax, maybe around the bonfire
And it's just gonna be those like two or three hours and most of people are very very very drunk
but that's another thing but
And then you can just leave that place, and if you want you can go to bars
There are two different types of bars at UIUC from my perspective the first one is the classic
Pub I was a sort of Irish in a way
You go there. You have a beer a very nice beer maybe with your friends
You just have a chat you play some pool or whatever games you want to play at the classic bars there might be
Karaoke for one night there might be a trivia night
And you know classic things of a bar, and then there is this second type of bars
Those bars that after a time around let's say 10:00 p.m.
They turn the lights off
They put some loud music and people start dancing and they become like clubs
so these bars are I'm trying to be a club bars and
Its unique to America. I never seen anything like that so in this video
I'm just gonna focus on this kind of bar slash clubs because for me are probably
the Craziest place to be they usually start putting loud music around 10:00 p.m.
And all of them they can go up to 2 a.m.. There is no bar that can go over 2 a.m.
I repeat this because for me was absolutely crazy 2 a.m.. For me. It's very early, but here in
UIUC
Everything closes at 2 a.m.. Probably the only thing that doesn't close at 2 a.m.
Are the house parties so these bar slash clubs they have?
Classic drinks and beers so you can get classic alcohol
they call them well drinks, so a well is a kind of mixed drinks like Coke and rum for example and
Sometimes at some bars they are very very cheap
I will give an example every Thursday at Brothers these wells are only one dollar and
That's that's fucking cheap. I mean you can easily get so many of them and Wow
Whoo and enjoy your night I would say
talking about days
Every day usually in each bar. There is a promotion so people
Tend to go where the promotion is and as I said before Thursday night
there is
$1.00 wells and that's probably a very nice thing that you can go and check it out at brothers
They start at 10 p.m.. And the lines can be very very long
Around 11:00 midnight in some places you can stay in line for half an hour or hours
So just make sure and plan ahead before you go there
How you're gonna pregame and whatever so you can just go there a little bit before
The reason that there are lines is
Because they check for IDs so they check every single person for ID and usually are not many people checking for these IDs
And also you need to pay for covers you need to pay for those
Maybe five dollars and that takes a while because every time one person check ID
Are you actually this person is this a fake ID or come on man?
I'm that guy come on come on in terms of age
You need to be at least in nineteen to get into any bars around campus or on campus
a thing for international people if you bring your driving license for your country your ID from your country
Usually they don't accept it. I have to go in these bars - clubs with my passport
That's fucking annoying, but I mean there is no other way to get in otherwise so just
just an information
music really depends on the bars some they might have a mixture of popular and mainstream
songs of today and also some of the past like 90s and 80s
And others can have country music and others can have hip hop
But overall I think that some bars. I would say like Red Lion for instance the music. I like it
I like it a lot. It's a mixture of Latin
EDM and sometimes mainstream pop which I mean, you know these songs
So you're just gonna go with them and just gonna dance It's fun. what to do there
It's basically like a club so there is loud music
You can dance usually but if you want to speak and have a better conversation you can always go outside and there are usually
quite
Areas so you can have a chat, maybe meet other people it's up to you in terms of outfits
There is no requirements. You don't need to dress up but
please
Don't bring your best pair of shoes bring one of your worst pair of shoes because in this kind of bars
Sometimes you can get very very sticky the floor can be like a pool
Literally that you can feel they are alcohol and sometimes also a smell of vomit
And it's very very gross and your shoes
If you go with your best shoes or whatever shoes you're gonna wear. They're gonna be
sticky for at least
Weeks, it's so bad. So just a heads up
Don't go there with your best shoes. Actually. We're the world's shoes. You could possibly work
I'm not saying everybody's like that, but be ready
some of them can be very
Very dirty
All of these bars are located around, Green Street, so they are very easy to
Reach you can just walk to them. It depends Where you live, but they're not far from anywhere. They're not far from campus and
It's very nice
How they are very close to each other and they're also close to food places you can easily go and have some food at McDonald's
Burrito King a chicken wings whatever you fancy there will be a place open hopefully until 3 a.m.
And you can grab a snack
Makes you feel full and that was it to recap. I went through three different types of
parties and like
nightlife activities house
parties very very good
I actually love them
Barn dances if I can get to more of them there will be also be amazing and those kind of bars/clubs
that I personally enjoy not all of them, but during some nights are actually pretty good and
This was our summary of the nightlife of UIUC
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Every single thing of this massive campus
But thanks for watching, and I'll see you in other video. Goodbye