Brigham Young University-Provo Top Questions

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BYU's social scene is great! People are always throwing parties. Many people who have not experienced the BYU social scene don't really understand it. This is because Mormons are typically not the 'partying' type. WRONG! we love to party and dance and have fun! Provo/ORem parties typically included a room with strobe lights, a DJ and tons of people. One downside is that most parties are so packed the cops come not long after it really gets going. BYU is also big, like HUGE on dating. BYU basically marriage like it promotes passing classes. Dating is a major activity on the weekends and provo has plenty of business that cater to the college dating crowd. BYU is the prefect school for you if you love to do winter sports. There are a number of ski resorts located in the Salt Lake area. Anything from the stylish Park City to the small and affordable Sun Dance. Winter Weekend trips usually included people taking trips to Vegas (5 hours south) or St. George (3.5 hours) Just to get a dose of warm weather. A lot of people have family in Utah and condos or cabins as resorts which is also a great way to get away from campus for the weekend. BYU athletics is huge. Football, Basketball are national ranked and the games are fun, crazy and loud.

The basic unit of BYU social life for most people is definitely centered around the church. There are local congregations called wards that are organized by locality and by one's marital status (if you are single, you go to a ward with all singles--to help facilitate meeting people). There are always things happening on campus--they have an entire "events page" dedicated to it, but the most enjoyable activities, at least in my experience, were definitely organized through the local wards, but that depends on each ward. My ward has an activity almost every night, but I've heard of others that do hardly anything, but most are at least fairly exciting. There is always a sport event to go to, and we have a college devotional or forum each week in addition to various workshops throughout the week all across campus.