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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Involved with nerf club at WM.  On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some  “pre-game,” but a lot are sober.  A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing.  After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life. [/quote]

Gotta ask, why are kids hanging out post midnight at the Wawa??? [/quote]

It’s a WM thing.

https://flathatnews.com/2022/11/14/late-night-wawa-trivia/

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/wawa-love-letter

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-wm-students

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Are they really hanging out at the Wawa, or simply buying their $6 hoagie at 12am and then sitting outside eating it.

It is directly across the street from the W&M campus.  UPenn has 3 Wawa's across the street from various parts of campus (Wawa is HQ in Philadelphia) which are quite popular, but nobody is hanging out there.[/quote]

Apparently, they really hang out at WaWa— often while eating Mac and cheese or whatever. And it’s a cross section of kids— from Greeks post parties to kids who are much nerdier/sober.  Which is an issue the school tries to address periodically because of crowding and drunk kids puking/not on their best behavior. That said, it’s apparent the top grossing Wawa on the East coast. So the owners are getting some ROI.

My DC really like the mix mash of different kids hanging out together. She isn’t a drinker and goes to hang out with with friends (she likes to be the one to put in the group order on the app because she gets loyalty points and often her order is free). And she says it fun to find to run into a group of kids from her classes that she would not ordinarily hang out with outside of class and have a mix of drunk and sober kids continuing a class discussion from the prior week. I guess 1am discussions of Russian economic involvement in Armenia among kids who are varying degrees of sober at WaWa at 1 am is a very WM thing to do.  Much more relaxed than class, obviously, and she says some interesting and funny takes when you add drunk kids to the mix. She ended up writing a final paper last semester that started as a 1am WaWa discussion.

Seems odd to me, but I guess every college has things, places, traditions, events that make it unique. WM obviously has a lot of traditions that are hundreds of years old (Convocation, Charter Day, ringing the Wren Bell, Yule Log, etc) and other ways to socialize. But weekend WaWa is also a real thing. [/quote]

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