Dorm Floor Peer-relationships

I'm from a fairly small town in Lindenwold, New Jersey. Nothing too exciting goes on there, that's why I decided to go to West Virginia University! After seeing a football game on T.V. I knew that WVU was always going to have a place in my heart, winning Class Clown and Most School Spirited at my high school, encouraged me to apply to WVU, because I wanted to share that with thousands of Freshmen that were like me and completely different. I NEVER in a thousand years, thought I'd know every person on my floor in Brooke Towers! The fifth floor of Brooke Towers is absolutely poppin, we all know each other and I love that feeling. The other night, we had movie night in this kid's dorm and just tonight, we had a dance party, that soon got busted because it was after quiet hours! Oops! I walk around Brooke Towers all the time and I don't see any hallway that is as social as ours. Just about every person on the fifth floor of Brooke Tower has the door open, on any other floor, most of the doors are shut. This hallway has made me come out of my shell a little bit, when I first got here, I was home sick and I didn't know how I was going to survive a whole year here. But my floor has made it so much fun and I can truly say that if I was on another floor, I would absolutely dread living in the dorms!

- Samantha Messner

Is this similar or dissimilar to your experiences in the dorms? -- JG

So ... Thoughts?

So, now that you've been here a week, what've been the things that surprised you the most about life at WVU? Are there things you wish you'd known before you left home and moved here? What would you do differently? Or, what has been unexpectedly good about WVU?

-- JG

Do Students Need Cars Anyway?

Piggy-backing off of the post just under this one, it seems to me that one way to solve the parking problem is to leave your cars at home. If you think about the amount of money you'd probably pay to park, the hassle of finding a spot, digging your car out from the snow and ice during winter time, the time you waste driving when sometimes walking is just as fast...why bring it in the first place? Sure, Morgantown is somewhat spread out and not everything is within walking distance. But do you really need your car--or can you get by without it?

-- JG

WVU & Parking Issues

I just don’t understand why WVU only offers one free parking lot for us students to park. It really frustrates me on football and basketball game days when the WVU officials block off over half of the coliseum lot so fans can park there. Now I don’t want to sound like I am angry that the fans park at the coliseum, I am just aggravated by the fact that if you don’t have an 8:00A.M. or 8:30A.M. class then you have a very little chance of actually getting a parking spot on game days. The worst part is that for football games they block the lots off two days before a game. Lastly, it bothers me for the people who can’t find parking spots and have to park in random spots at the coliseum and then they are given a ticket for not being in an “actual” parking space. To my knowledge, the coliseum is the only free lot for students, and I do realize the parking garage is an option, but it can be very difficult to get a spot there too. I just wish that WVU would offer another form of free parking especially on game days.

M.Hamilton