West Virginia University Top Questions

Greek life is great and football is awesome here. Also there is a activity "Mountaineers go First"

FOOTBALL!

Athletic events and Greek life are the most popular student organizations. Otherwise, most students' activities revolve around drinking or leaving the campus because they don't like what's going on at WVU.

Morgantown has many activities to offer. During the week, most people are stuck in their dorms and library studying but some are downtown enjoying the nightlife specials. On the weekends, frats have parties and clubs are open until 3 am. If one does not wish to go downtown to have fun, there are lots of opportunities offered in dorms, the Rec, and the Mountainlair. For example, dorms offer Zumba, poker nights, and snacks for special occassions. The Mountainlair has WVU up all night filled with entertainment, free food (a big hit), and fun activities- such as a moon bounce. The Rec has basketball courts, rock climbing, workout equipment, raquet-ball,volleyball, ping pong, and many many more healthy, fun activities.

At WVU, we love our sports. Mountaineer Maniacs is the biggest club we have. It is an athletic support group. They give you priority tickets in football season, and organize trips to away athletic events. They also give away free stuff! We have some great sports rivalries. Many people also get involved in sororities/fraternities or groups associated with their program of choice.

I would say that the Mountaineer Maniacs are definitely one of the most popular groups on campus. They are based around cheering on the Mountaineer sports teams and because of this University's pride for its teams, it garners quite a following. The arts are also very popular at WVU, with plays, musicals, and dancing all being performed at the Creative Arts Center. An interesting activity at WVU is called WVU Up All Night. It is put on every weekend as an alternative for drinking and it features comedians, live music, contests, food, and opportunities to interact with other students.

Fraternities and Sororities are a huge part of campus and campus activities. The marching band is also very important. Besides all the obvious sports teams, there are club sports. I am a part of the tennis club, and get the chance to play twice a week if I want. There are constantly activities going on around campus. There is always something to do.

Greek life at West Virginia University is on the rise and becoming much more popular within the student population. I was the vice president of one of the more prestigous fraternities on campus and greek life is a great way for students to become more socially involved. However, there is a large house party and bar scene where you do not need to be a member of greek life in order to have fun. With greek life on the rise, the university has future plans to make a more exclusive greek village. There is currently a fraternity row where multiple fraternity houses are located. The new greek village will be a renovation of this and allow for greek life to become more popular but more exclusive as well. In my opinion greek life will be more than doubled within the next coupe of years as there are plans to bring other fraternities/soroities onto campus in the near future. Most of my closest friends were met either through the dorms my freshman year or through greek life. Dorms are a great way to meet friends as there are literally 1,000+ students per dorm. Athletic events are some of the bigger events of the year. Football games at WVU are a huge social event where you will find some of the more premeir tailgating in the country. WVU becomes the largest city in the state of West Virginia on gamedays as the stadium holds nearly 65,000 and it sold out almost every game. This is a great excuse for students to party and drink all day long. If you are awake on at 2 am on a Tuesday you are likely stumbling back from BOT (Black Out Tuesday) at Bent Willies or from Mug Night at Chik 'N Bones. These are both 21+ bars that are very popular on nearly every Tuesday night as they have some of the best drink specials in town in order to attract students on a Tuesday night. One event that happens every year is Fall Fest. This is a free concert on the first Monday night of classes that is open to WVU students. The concert involves multiple popular artist with a superstar headliner year after year. This is easily one of the most anticipated events of the year and is yet again another excuse to party and it is a great way to kick off the school year. If you are not drinking on a Saturday night then WVU likely is not the place you want to be. While there are some things to do, it is not likely that you will be able to do these things in peace as the campus and downtown are swarming with intoxicated students on a Saturday night.

The WVU football and basketball teams are the most popular on campus. Athletics are very popular as well as school spirit. Greek life is common too. I am a resident assistant at WVU and it has become my family. Students in the dorms try to reach out and make their roots in WVU; most are freshman. Most friends are met through a major or through the dorms. WVU is speical in that it has a program called Up All Night. This is where students can go Thursday through Saturday. They serve food, have special events, and show movies from 10pm-2am.

all kinds of stuff, local concerts, football games are off the hook, outdoor trips going on all the time through the rec center, parties are awsome and numerous, and toons of local bars