<p>Can anyone give me an idea of activities/events, etc.?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>During the week leading up to it, the people vying for Queen/King will be out and about. They’ll hand out free stuff (one year a girl gave cotton candy and goldfish-- like the pet, not like the snack!) to try and win your vote. </p>
<p>Friday night there will be an awesome lazer light show and fireworks. The light show is on Bigelow Blvd between Cathedral and the Union (with some of the lights being projected onto the Cathedral) and the fireworks are best seen from here too.</p>
<p>Saturday afternoon (generally afternoon) is the homecoming football game. People go down to Heinz Field for a normal game, but they have alumni come in, etc. etc. and the Queen/King are crowned. Saturday night is a dance, I think they normally hold it in Soldiers & Sailors? I’ve never actually been to the dance, but it’s pretty nice from what I heard. I think tickets are like $15-20 a person.</p>
<p>Basically, it’s a combination of school pride, a dance, and Pittsburgh classics (football, fireworks). In my opinion, it’s a bit more low-key than the hype that normally surrounds high school homecoming.</p>
<p>i’m going to tell you what i did</p>
<p>well when I went to Pitt for homecoming last October (as a junior in hs) and I arrived on Friday night, around 6 or 7 pm…then we had to check into the hotel and everything, so we missed a couple of things, i think the major thing was the light show though.</p>
<p>then on saturday there was a program to kinda, recruit new students in alumni hall. the pathfinders(people who show prospective students are their families around) took us on tours around the campus, there were workshops with different aspects of the campus on it</p>
<p>afterwards my aunt, who is the mother of the student that attended the school, took me to one of the sororities’s offices, and they showed me around.</p>
<p>after that, there was a football game at Heinz field that i attended, it was beautiful, they had these buses that take you from the Pittsburgh campus to the field, and they take you for free, i think it’s an awesome system, then we had to cross one of the bridges to get to the field, it was lovely lol</p>
<p>then later that night, there was a step show in alumni hall which a lot of the athletes attend.</p>
<p>then the next day,they may of had a few more tours around the campus, but i wasnt there for them…</p>
<p>in my opinion, it wasnt event filled as possible, but in everything they did, they did it big.</p>
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<p>For all the Pitt home games, you can board a school bus at Bigelow between Fifth and Forbes and they’ll shuttle you to Heinz field and back for the game. The buses take you all the way to the gates up until about 90 minutes before the game. At 90 minutes they drop you off across the bridge at Point Park and you have to walk there (it’s not a bad walk at all, like 908 said).</p>
<p>Starting after the half, I think, you can take a bus from outside the stadium back to Pitt. These continue running throughout the second half of the game and after the end. It’s always a good idea to sprint like mad out of the stadium at the end of the game so you don’t end up waiting forever to get a bus back, haha.</p>
<p>These shuttles run for every home game, like I said, and they’re open to anyone. Mostly Pitt students use it, but parents/friends/etc. can use it too at no charge.</p>