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Campus Favorites
So, what’s hot on the WVU campus? We went right to the experts to find out – our current students! What follows is a list of popular responses from an online survey conducted last semester.
Favorite Things To Do At The Student Recreation Center
– Walk/run on the elevated track
– Swim
– Basketball
– Ping pong
– Hot tub and whirlpool
– Racquetball
– Climbing wall
– Lift weights
– Run on the treadmill
– Exercise classes (e.g., Zumba, kickboxing, spin, yoga)
Best WVU Traditions
– Football game days
– Singing “Country Roads” after a football victory
– Tailgating in the Pit
– Mountaineer Mascot
– Chanting “Let’s Go…Mountaineers!”
– First down cheer at football games
– Marching band’s pre-game show
– FallFest
– Singing the Alma Mater
– The lighting of Woodburn Hall for the holidays
Best Place on Campus to Hand Out with Friends
– Mountainlair
– Mountainlair Plaza
– Woodburn Circle
– Brew and Gold Cafe
– Sidepocket Pub
– Student Rec Center
– Boreman Bistro
– Dorm rooms
– Sports events
Best Place to Pretend You’re Studying
– Mountainlair
– Eliza’s in the Downtown Campus Library
– On the lawn in front of the Downtown Library Complex
– Woodburn Circle
– Lounges in the dorms
– Benches in front of Martin Hall
– Mountainlair Plaza
– E Moore Hall
– Business and Economics Building
Best Places to Really Study
– Reading rooms in the Downtown Campus Library
– Ground floor of the Evansdale Library
– 2nd or 6th floors of the Downtown Campus Library
– Downtown Library study rooms
– E Moore Hall
– Sectionals in the Health Sciences Center Library
– Newman Hall
– Dorm study room
– Percival Hall
– Center for Black Culture
Best Late Night Pizza
– Casa D’Amici
– Papa John’s
– Mountaineer Pizza
– Little Caesars
– Gumby’s Pizza
– Bent Willey’s Pizza
– Pizza Al’s
– Vocelli Pizza
– Domino’s
Best Free Entertainment
– FallFest
– Football games
– Basketball games
– WVUp All Night
– Midnight scary movies in the Mountainlair
– Any sports event
– Mountaineer Idol contest
– Comedy Caravan
– Student Rec Center
– People-watching in the Mountainlair
Best Class
– Principles of Human Communication
– Introduction to Sociology
– Introduction to Western Civilization 1
– Growth of the American Nation to 1865
– Introduction to Social Psychology
– Legal Environment of Business
– Orientation to Scuba
– Introduction to Mass Communication
– First Aid and Emergency Care
– Introduction to Dance
Toughest Class that You’ll Love
– Introduction to American Government
– Principles of Biology I
– Current Moral Problems
– Law and the Legal System
– Organic Chemistry
– Principles of Conservation Ecology
– Principles of Accounting
– Planet Earth
– Sleep Research
– Effective Public Speaking
– Flight Dynamics
– Exercise Physiology 1
– Gross Anatomy/Gross Anatomy Lab