#university of west virginia

[ncaapeaches]

West Virginia Gymnastics

[athleticperfection1]

West Virginia Cheer

[theinquisitxor]

A firestorm starting on Twitter about the reports that West Virginia University (a major R1 university on the east coast) will be cutting programs— including the entire World Languages program. You wouldn’t even be able to take a Spanish class at WVU.

The president Gordon Gee is not liked, and has a bad reputation when it comes to leading universities. I really hope this doesn’t come to fruition, but it paints a bleak picture for the humanities + higher ed in general

[vandaliatraveler]

An Easter bouquet of some of Central Appalachia's finest spring wildflowers, courtesy of Core Arboretum at West Virginia University.

From top: cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata); Virginia spring beauty (Claytonia virginica); Carolina spring beauty (Claytonia caroliniana); sessile trillium (Trillium sessile); twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla); immature golden ragwort (Packera aurea); dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne); Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), including a rare white-flowered variation; woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata), also known as wild blue phlox; harbinger of spring (Erigenia bulbosa), also known as pepper and salt; Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria); downy yellow violet (Viola pubescens); yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum), also known as dog-tooth violet; and celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum), also known as wood poppy.

[mrtonestill60s]

McKenna Linnen, Chloe Clutchey, and Rachel Hornung.

[tjkl895]

(https://www.sjanickiphoto.com/2023-2024-College-Wrestling/2023-Midlands-Championships/Finals-2023-Midlands-Championships-123023/165-Hamiti-def-Hall-Finals-2023-Midlands-Championships)

[wildwithlight]

[britneyshakespeare]

You versus the guy she tells you not to worry about

[morganbritton132]

My thought process lately with my TikTok saga:

Me: I’m going to make Eddie be originally from my home state and that’ll be fun! I can include little cultural things.

Followed by: What is the culture of the place I’ve lived my entire life????

Followed by: I live so close to the Ohio border, am I even really from West Virginia?? Have I ever truly experienced the culture of (again) the state I’ve lived in my entire life.

[ncaapeaches]

brynn.freehling on Instagram

[athleticperfection1]

West Virginia Cheer

[beatrack92]

Mikenna Vanderheyden (West Virginia)

2024 NCAA Championships (Eugene)

[techie-waterwitch]

[elwenyere]

"Gordon Gee plans to retire in 2025. I have no doubt his grandchildren will benefit from a private education similar to his own, consisting of a thorough liberal arts education with access to subjects now increasingly reserved for the elite, such as math and foreign languages. They will have their choice of careers in the arts, humanities, government, finance, security, diplomacy, business, or tech. Those who decide what is worth learning, what is worth teaching, what counts as a 'structural deficit,' will never bear the brunt of their own choices.

West Virginians, trapped in the clutches of economic hardship, find themselves mercilessly shackled to a state most can ill afford to abandon, left to suffer the full weight of the WVU administration’s harrowing decisions. We will learn only subjects aligned with the preferences of the rich, driven by their financial motivations. We will work for the oligarchs for the rest of our lives, just like our parents and our grandparents did for the global coal industry. We will continue to amass inconceivable riches for the nation’s privileged elite until our last breath, and we will find our resting place in unadorned cardboard coffins beneath West Virginia soil.

And those condemned to languish within the husk of WVU, who would excel within a capacious and intellectually coherent university, will only find it harder and harder to access avenues of social and economic mobility."

[hubbyalh]

Do your best in high school. You can get enough scholarships and grants to pay for college. It just takes a shit ton of work. Keep applying for every single scholarship. Sure, $250-$1000 isn’t much, but it adds up quickly and can save your ass from debt that will be highly difficult to pay off. Those smaller scholarships are a lot easier to get too. Go to college right after high school, if possible. You have to rack up those scholarships during your high school years, and not just during college. Do the work. Debts sucks balls. Big, hairy and sweaty balls. Get help if you need to. Don’t be ashamed to ask and get tutors. The hard work is worth it. You can do this. You got this.

[radioradio]

I decided to head down to Morgantown again on a whim and get some photos from around the Downtown Campus of West Virginia University. Took my Nikon D600 with the 28-70 f/2.8D lens.

Took full advantage of learning I could set a minimum shutter speed with Auto ISO. So I went aperture priority f/8, and 1/125 sec minimum shutter.

The Auto ISO didn't really come out in full force until those last couple of indoor shots. The last one was 5600, but it still came out nice.

Tagging my photography tumblr senpai @thefrogman, and I hope you get to feeling better.

Here's a Weird Pitcher Face from Wednesday as a pick-me-up.