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Q: Is There More to Campus Life Than School?
Let's face
it, wherever you attend medical school, how much you enjoy life outside
the classroom is going to depend largely on your classmates. At Hopkins,
they will have such interesting outlooks and backgrounds that they're
going to make it easy for you to have fun.
Many first-year
med students decide the best way to get to know their classmates, and
also Baltimore, is by living on campus in Reed Hall. Arrangements there-in
most cases, a group of four single bedrooms with shared living areas
and bath-offer plenty of privacy in an atmosphere that fosters companionship.
Eventually, most students opt to move off campus, renting apartments
or houses in one of Baltimore's many student-friendly neighborhoods,
but Reed Hall is a great way to start.
Close
to Home
Med students
can take full advantage of the programs on all three Hopkins campuses
in Baltimore. Free shuttle-bus service makes it a breeze to zip from
one to another.
The medical
campus features an extensive slate of lectures, film series, concerts
and other events. Free membership at the Denton A. Cooley Recreational
Athletic Center gives you access to fitness equipment, jogging tracks,
an outdoor pool, and courts for basketball, racquetball, squash and
tennis. Cooley also offers classes in everything from aerobics to all
the "in" kinds of dancing and organizes tournaments in individual and
team sports.
Groups and
clubs offer chances to pursue everything from string quartets to international
rescue groups to religious and ethnic interests in a relaxed atmosphere.
In recent years, medical students have published a literary magazine
and worked with neighborhood children. Local chapters of national organizations
offer links to fellow students at medical schools all over the country.
Just Down
the Road
A few miles
from the medical campus lies the tree-lined Homewood campus, the home
of the University's Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. There,
a full calendar of concerts, parties and cultural happenings awaits.
Medical students are welcome to use the Homewood library and athletic
facilities and to attend intercollegiate sporting events.
Closer to downtown,
in the European-flavored neighborhood of Mount Vernon, is Hopkins' Peabody
Conservatory of Music, with a calendar of operas, concerts and recitals-at
student-rate prices. Musicians among medical students often make use
of Peabody's rehearsal rooms; some even fine tune their talents by signing
up for classes at no extra charge.
The bottom
line is this: Your outside-the-classroom options will be limited only
by your own imagination.
Safety First
Johns Hopkins,
like that of many other urban academic medical centers, is located near
a part of the city where residents are struggling to combat problems
related to poverty. That makes prospective students ask about campus
safety.
The truth is
that security on campus is rarely an issue for those who exercise ordinary
precautions of city living. In fact, the Johns Hopkins medical campus
is rather like a small city unto itself: With some 20,000 employees,
students and visitors around daily, its hustle-bustle and quiet green
spaces exude a feeling of home-town comfort.
A
friendly and capable security force visibly deployed on every corner of
the campus adds to the overall feeling of safety. Overall, the rate of
incidents on our campus is tiny-less
than at most other urban medical schools. |
