Wesleyan University Top Questions

The campus is generally fun, if partially by necessity. With very little to do off-campus, students come up with a whole host of options, and a given weekend will usually have ten or more things you could potentially go to and see a lot of people. Student performances are usually very good. What can you do on a Saturday night that doesn't involve drinking? Drugs.

The Film Series is one of the best things about Wesleyan. They show new and old movies 4 nights a week (Wednesday-Saturday). The movies range from obscure, arty flicks to blockbuster hits like Transformers (which director and Wes alum Michael Bay came to talk about last semester!). Late Night is really fun. The dining hall is open late night seven nights a week (albeit a little later on weekend nights) and they serve stuff like burgers, mozzarella sticks, desserts, etc.

Weekends are fun. If you want to get drunk or high, it won't be hard. If you don't, you won't be alone.

On a weekend, I would say this campus ranges from funkadelic to crunktastic. There's usually a pretty diverse range of parties, meaning that anywhere you can put a keg, there will usually be one. Also, Wesleyan kids are huge on dance parties - even though "dancing" sometimes means "convulsing like an epileptic watching anime." To put it simply, Wesleyan kids like to have a good time.

Wesleyan has a large number of improv comedy and a capella groups. There is also a pretty well-funded student-run theater organization that puts on over a dozen plays each semester. The dorms are the place where most people make their first and closest friends. Many seniors choose to live with people they randomly lived with as freshmen. Athletic events seemed to be pretty popular among those who participated in them. The rest of the students didn't seem to care too much. There are no sororities with houses, maybe one or two without houses. There are a few frats, but they don't have too big of an impact on the rest of the campus, aside from being good spaces to host parties and shows. It is pretty easy to find a lot to do at Wesleyan on the weekends without drinking - there are always concerts, plays, movies, etc on the weekends.

I dont really know whats popular. You tend to get sucked into your own little circle. Theres great opportunities for the arts here though. So many plays, comedy shows, and rock concerts, student based or otherwise. Bands like the Books play, and Spring fling brings some hip-hop hero. And I knew at least 15 student bands. After you see a band play at WestCo, you wander upstairs into someone's room where there's wine and cheese. Or you find out which house has a party and mingle in the backyard. You'll find someone you know. I pretty much went out every night and saw a show and then went to a party. Mondays and Tuesdays are pretty tame, but otherwise, 5 nights a week theres some place to go and party. I made a lot of friends through being involved in improv, and film. I wasn't around freshman year, but I'm pretty sure you can just make friends with anyone who lives near you, or is in your class. Once you have one or two friends, then you can just be friends with all their friends, then you are friends with the whole school. And the best frat isn't a frat, its just a house full of hipsters with a lot of money for cool bands. And I guess coke, but you don't have to do the coke if you don't want to. You might even tell your friends not to do coke if you asked them. And they might even listen. But they will probably still do it and not pressure you to do it or anything. Nothing too different from high school these days, I'm assuming.