Getting Started
Advice for New Students
For the next four years Morgantown will become your home and by the time you graduate, unless you already are, you will consider yourself a West Virginian. So take every opportunity while you are here to experience everything WVU and West Virginia has to offer.
-Ashley Riley, Marketing Senior
Introduce yourself to your professors and departmental support staff. Let folks know who you are. We want to know you and give you all the help we can.
-Dr Ruth Kershner, Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Take Adventure WV the summer before your freshman year. It’s a great way to meet new students, get a feel of what WVU’s like, and hit the ground running before you get here.
-Nick Hornbeck, Civil Engineering Senior
Go to class, manage your time, and study! Sometimes it can be hard, but it is a necessity.
- Brandon Thomas, Advertising Sophomore
Challenge yourself and commit to that challenge. You will be surprised at what you can achieve.
- Dr David Klinke, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Take advantage of all the opportunities WVU has to offer. There are so many great courses to take, and so many recreational opportunities. There are great athletics, and a multitude of organizations to become involved with. Become involved, and to be proud to be a Mountaineer!
- Megan E Jones, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, Class of 2003
Enjoy it to the fullest while it lasts. You talk to older people who say these years are the best years of your life, and I think that’s true.
- Amber Corrin, New-Editorial, Class of 2006