Dormitory life provides the opportunity to meet both American students and other International Students. Students from the Midwest are reserved and often it seems hard to make friends with them. But once you have made a friend, you have a friend for life. There are many campus wide activities and each department sponsors social and academic activities. Nebraska is an agricultural state.
People are conservative and mostly middle class.
Many UNK students come from small towns in Nebraska and have little experience and little contact with international students. They enjoy sports like football, basketball, baseball, and fishing and are friendly to newcomers. The legal drinking age is 21. In restaurants and bars, you must show your ID to prove that you are of legal drinking age. As Kearney is a small city there is no public transportation, but most of the stores and restaurants are in walking distance from campus.