University of Connecticut

Thousands upon thousands of students from UConn and the surrounding schools come out each night of spring weekend for concerts and widespread inebriation. Each night of the weekend holds an official or unofficial campus event in either one of the giant parking lots on campus, or at the off-campus apartments.

A pep-rally held in Gampel Pavilion to kick off the first official practice of the men's basketball team.

Volleyball played in mud during the senior week festivities

Rubbing the nose of the Husky mascot Jonathan, whose statue resides in front of Gampel Pavillion, is considered good luck for exams.

Due to the completion of the field in Hartford, most of the old football traditions were left behind. UConn is in the process of forming new ones.

SUBOG sponsors a full weekend of entertaining events, which usually include a dance, a big name concert, and other smaller things, also. Once, Dashboard Confessional played an acoustic show, which was attended by his entire family of over 150 people.

Insert 2,000 lbs. of free ice cream into the middle of a college campus. It may be cliché to say that college students love free food, but that doesn't mean it's untrue.

UConn's fraternities and sororities engage in a week of athletic competition.

It's a ceremony conducted at the beginning of freshman year and, later, at graduation in Gampel Pavillion. The ceremony is attended by upstanding faculty members to welcome your arrival and hail your departure.