Pitt Social Life

carachel2
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:31:13 +0000

Hello! My daughter is a junior at Pitt. One of the reasons she chose Pitt is because she wanted a city with lots to do that was accessible from the campus. She is not Greek and didn’t want to be Greek and she has no traditional school “rah rah” school spirit for football games and sports. She has not attended one football game. She has different groups of friends she has met through engineering, her dorms and through various on campus groups. Because the city is so accessible, they go to concerts, different neighborhoods for events and to museums. She and her friends went this weekend to a “Cookie Crawl” that was spread out all over Shadyside and Oakland among the different bakeries.

On the other hand, she has friends who ARE active in the Greek system. They love it and they do a LOT with their frats or sorority. She has friends who have never missed a football game and do all the traditional school things. Parties can definitely be found if that’s your scene as well.

I think that’s why she loves Pitt so much. Those who want to do all the school things can do them and they do do them, but those who aren’t into that scene can also find plenty to do and people to do it with.

Does that help? When we visited some other schools, she/we got the impression that if you were a kid who wasn’t into the big school football scene it would be really hard to find other outlets. We didn’t get that impression at all at Pitt! Plenty for everyone to do.