Quinnipiac University Top Questions

Quinnipiac social life revolves around beer, mainly. I remember people leaving their doors open in the dorms and at least freshman year people were kinda friendly. The dating 'scene' was not really about dating but more about hooking up and to be honest, I didn't want to date anyone from Quinnipiac ever. I never even hooked up with a boy there. Now that the new Athletic Center has been built, I'm sure that more people go to hockey and basketball games. A few people went to other events on campus but not a majority. Most people went out in New Haven with fake ID's or to house parties off campus. When we were freshman, we partied in dorm rooms a lot and hung around campus. Boys often caused damage to the dorms. I wasn't a huge fan of the Quinnipiac social scene and not because I wasn't a drinker. I just found that people weren't too friendly and were kinda uptight and clique-y. Too many girls with fake tans and designer bags and too many guys with dumb haircuts and even dumber t-shirts. There were some cool people but it sometimes took a lot to find them. I felt isolated a lot and not because I was ugly or fat or stupid but I just wasn't like most of the girls there. I didn't hate the whole thing, however. I just went to one of my old roommate's wedding showers and I do have a bunch of great friends from Quinn, many of whom transferred out after freshman year but that's another story.....

new haven is a great place to check out on the weekends, be it clubs or just finding a good place to eat. yale is right by. and even hamden, in town, there are restaurants and bowling and stuff. on campus, theres a student programing board and qu after dark, which always provides great events from 10-1 on fridays and saturdays. lots of fun stuff, ping pong tourneys, the latest movies in Buckman theater, free food, good clean fun

Too many groups. there's basically a group for everything. Nothing terribly bad about it, but i think it just isolates the school after that point. OH and the groups are individually funed by the school, so you guys can prettymuch do anything. QFS is the biggest group and it's all film-makers

Q 30 is a great opportunity for production students to get hands on experience in the television field. all trditions and events worthwhile have been cancelled and ignored by administration, and students have been pushed off campus because of the strict on campus stranglehold.

A majority of students play intramural sports. Athletic events are really popular. The new sports arena holds more students for the hockey and basketball games and transportation is provided to get there since it is off campus. Baseball games are really popular and the stands are generally full. I met my best friends freshman year, and they lived on my floor. People generally party when they feel like it. If a group of people have no work to do on a Monday night, they might go out and hit up the bars or just drink on campus. Big party nights are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; sometimes Wednesdays. Fraternities and sororities aren't big on campus as they are on other campuses. Thursdays everyone goes out to New Haven to the bars. Friday is mostly a campus night, and people sometimes go to Happy Hour at bars around Hamden, and Saturday campus is totally dead because everyone goes to Toads Place in New Haven.

There are lost of group at the school There are several programming groups, one specifically for the hours of 10pm to 1 am Friday and Saturday night. There is a Student Programming Board which puts on concerts, and different events every weekend. People are always out and about on weekends, they go clubbing in New Haven Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.There are always parties going on if you know who to talk to. The fraternities and soroities are rather unimportant here, they are mostly just service programs. There are always different multicultural event and all kinds of speakers going on.

Some of the most popular groups here are Q30, the student run television station; intramural sports; The Chronicle, the student newspaper. Men's Hockey is the most popular sport here and it draws the most students to the games. The next is the men's basketball team, but their crowd is definitely smaller than the hockey crowd. The other sports lack big student support, I wish that there were more students who cared about the sports teams here.

Dorm living is not bad. It's nice to always have people around. Most people are kind and you can borrow somehting if you need it.

There are only 3 Fraternies and 3 soroties but they are pretty popular on campus. Also the student programming board (SPB) is popular as well. Freshman dorms always have their doors open. Athletic events are very well attended here. Since our new arena opened up last year, a lot of people attend the ice hockey games. We have been number one in our conference the last couple years. Social life is pretty cool on campus. There are always parties to go to. To know people, you must been involved.

The campus is so small and secluded that there really is not much to do besides getting drunk in my dorm room and hoping the RAs don't swing by. There are few houses around campus that are within walking distance and in order to get to the city, students must take a shuttle which is unorganized and takes a long time.