Quinnipiac University Top Questions

athletics are not very popular on campus, except for men's hockey and occasionally men's basketball. Those sports are usually pretty good at getting students to the games, and on occasion men's lacrosse, baseball, or soccer might get a couple hundred people to watch, but most aren't students but rather parents or locals in the area. political events are always poorly attended, since there is little interest in politics here. May weekend used to be popular here, before the school abandoned it last year. It was basically a giant carnival on campus where some people used it as an excuse to drink more heavily than usual, on the last weekend before spring finals weekend. Frat life isn't big here. Sure, there are two fraternities and three sororities, and you can always identify them because of their hoodies (and sometimes their attitude towards non-greeks), but most students are not greek. Otherwise most people are fairly open. Many people leave their doors open, and it is not difficult at all to meet friends, as long as you're open yourself, and you either (a. join a couple of clubs to meet people, or b. become a health science major, where by doing lab work you apparently meet people all the time (I have 2 roommates like this). Plus, the campus is big enough to meet lots of new people without yet not so large that you will never see them.

It seems everyone is on a sport team or intermural team. Alot of people go to New Haven on Thursdays, stay on campus Friday and go to Toads Place on Saturday. Alot of people in greek life, but you don't need to be in one to fit in or have friends. School always puts on event in Alumni Hall on the weekends.

My hall is very friendly, most doors were closed the first few weeks, but open the rest of the year. People here party Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Though it's not like there is going to be a party in every room or anything, there are the normal Frat parties, hockey/lacrosse parties etc. Saturday night there is mostly something to do that doesn't involve drinking. My roommates and I usually order out from Dominoes or Drougies and watch Sex in the City or Grey's Anatomy. There are usually movies showing in Buckman or something going on around campus that is student run. If I were to be awake on a Tuesday at 2AM, I would probably be watching TV in my room, or a friends room, studying or browsing the internet.

parties every weekend major party school lot of people smoke and drink thursday-saturday is our weekend

The most popular organizations on campus are SGA and all of the Greek organizations. The most popular sports are men's ice hockey and men's lacrosse.

Monday through Thursday - Class and the library. Thursday night - Hula Hanks in New Haven for recreational activities - if you will. Friday night - Campus night - recreational activities - if you will Saturday night - Toads Sunday - Club libs (library) - Doing weekend homework.

i have no interest in athletic events and i have no reason why the school keeps on spending soooooo much on sports teams that are never going to be elite besides possibly the hockey team. spend more money on the actual students and stop patrionizing the athletes who most dont even pay to go to school here.

Lots of social life. New Haven (Yale area) is a great trip to take for some shopping/entertainment. On campus the school provides movies, activities on the weekends, trips to other places. Greek life is there but not a HUGE thing. There is always a party to go to but if you aren't into that there is plenty to do.

The Quinnipiac social life is heavily centered on drinking Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Drugs are around, its a college campus after all, but you really have to go out of your way to find them. The weekend life is all about drinking. I would wager a guess that more than 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the freshman class has a fake ID by the end of thier freshman year, as clubbing is huge. Quinnipiac has shuttles running constantly to and from New Haven, which is only a twenty minute drive away. I was one of the types of people that choose schools specifically because they didnt have a large greek system, but wouldnt you know, I ended up rushing. There are only three sororities and two fraternities on campus, but if you want to get involved, greek life is the best way to do it. I have only a few freinds outside of greek life, and whether you consider that to be a good thing or a bad thing I have no problem with it. If you dislike the greek system, however, you wont have a problem making freinds. Again, greeks are a very small percentage on campus.

Athletics are very popular, and highly supported by students. Frats and sororities on campus are fun for those who are interested, but they aren't dominant groups on campus that control the social functioning like at some other schools. I guess QU can be considered a party school, but so many are. Most students like to go downtown new haven. There's great shopping and nightlife and is the heart of the Yale campus as well. It is definitely a college area.

Quinnipiac social life revolves around beer, mainly. I remember people leaving their doors open in the dorms and at least freshman year people were kinda friendly. The dating 'scene' was not really about dating but more about hooking up and to be honest, I didn't want to date anyone from Quinnipiac ever. I never even hooked up with a boy there. Now that the new Athletic Center has been built, I'm sure that more people go to hockey and basketball games. A few people went to other events on campus but not a majority. Most people went out in New Haven with fake ID's or to house parties off campus. When we were freshman, we partied in dorm rooms a lot and hung around campus. Boys often caused damage to the dorms. I wasn't a huge fan of the Quinnipiac social scene and not because I wasn't a drinker. I just found that people weren't too friendly and were kinda uptight and clique-y. Too many girls with fake tans and designer bags and too many guys with dumb haircuts and even dumber t-shirts. There were some cool people but it sometimes took a lot to find them. I felt isolated a lot and not because I was ugly or fat or stupid but I just wasn't like most of the girls there. I didn't hate the whole thing, however. I just went to one of my old roommate's wedding showers and I do have a bunch of great friends from Quinn, many of whom transferred out after freshman year but that's another story.....

new haven is a great place to check out on the weekends, be it clubs or just finding a good place to eat. yale is right by. and even hamden, in town, there are restaurants and bowling and stuff. on campus, theres a student programing board and qu after dark, which always provides great events from 10-1 on fridays and saturdays. lots of fun stuff, ping pong tourneys, the latest movies in Buckman theater, free food, good clean fun

Too many groups. there's basically a group for everything. Nothing terribly bad about it, but i think it just isolates the school after that point. OH and the groups are individually funed by the school, so you guys can prettymuch do anything. QFS is the biggest group and it's all film-makers

Q 30 is a great opportunity for production students to get hands on experience in the television field. all trditions and events worthwhile have been cancelled and ignored by administration, and students have been pushed off campus because of the strict on campus stranglehold.

A majority of students play intramural sports. Athletic events are really popular. The new sports arena holds more students for the hockey and basketball games and transportation is provided to get there since it is off campus. Baseball games are really popular and the stands are generally full. I met my best friends freshman year, and they lived on my floor. People generally party when they feel like it. If a group of people have no work to do on a Monday night, they might go out and hit up the bars or just drink on campus. Big party nights are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; sometimes Wednesdays. Fraternities and sororities aren't big on campus as they are on other campuses. Thursdays everyone goes out to New Haven to the bars. Friday is mostly a campus night, and people sometimes go to Happy Hour at bars around Hamden, and Saturday campus is totally dead because everyone goes to Toads Place in New Haven.

There are lost of group at the school There are several programming groups, one specifically for the hours of 10pm to 1 am Friday and Saturday night. There is a Student Programming Board which puts on concerts, and different events every weekend. People are always out and about on weekends, they go clubbing in New Haven Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.There are always parties going on if you know who to talk to. The fraternities and soroities are rather unimportant here, they are mostly just service programs. There are always different multicultural event and all kinds of speakers going on.

Some of the most popular groups here are Q30, the student run television station; intramural sports; The Chronicle, the student newspaper. Men's Hockey is the most popular sport here and it draws the most students to the games. The next is the men's basketball team, but their crowd is definitely smaller than the hockey crowd. The other sports lack big student support, I wish that there were more students who cared about the sports teams here.

Dorm living is not bad. It's nice to always have people around. Most people are kind and you can borrow somehting if you need it.

There are only 3 Fraternies and 3 soroties but they are pretty popular on campus. Also the student programming board (SPB) is popular as well. Freshman dorms always have their doors open. Athletic events are very well attended here. Since our new arena opened up last year, a lot of people attend the ice hockey games. We have been number one in our conference the last couple years. Social life is pretty cool on campus. There are always parties to go to. To know people, you must been involved.

The campus is so small and secluded that there really is not much to do besides getting drunk in my dorm room and hoping the RAs don't swing by. There are few houses around campus that are within walking distance and in order to get to the city, students must take a shuttle which is unorganized and takes a long time.