Surviving the Keweenaw
The legendary local metric measured in hundreds of inches that will bury your car if you forget to shovel or check the campus snow plow route.
What is the Keweenaw Snowfall Record (or total snow)?
The iconic ice-based sport played on outdoor rinks behind Wadsworth Hall where slipping on ice in sneakers is a lifestyle.
What is Broomball?
The multi-story brick building on campus where almost every first-year student suffers through massive math, physics, and chemistry lectures.
What is Fisher Hall?
Your OTL's major
What is Biomedical Engineering
Michigan Tech’s unique program where students work on real-world engineering and business projects for industry sponsors like Ford and GM
What is the Enterprise Program?
The annual winter celebration featuring massive snow statues, broomball, and midnight ice sculpture grinding.
What is Winter Carnival?
The official campus mascot who brings the hype at MacInnes Student Ice Arena during Husky Hockey games.
Who is Blizzard T. Husky?
The multi-level student hub featuring the Campus Store, used to have a bowling alley, and a market.
What is the MUB (Memorial Union Building)?
Your OTL lived here for her 1st year
What is Wadsworth Hall?
The massive fall campus event where hundreds of student organizations, clubs, and sports line up to recruit new members.
What is K-Day (Keweenaw Day)?
The specific piece of winter gear you must buy unless you want your toes to freeze off while walking up the hill from Lot 21.
What are real winter/snow boots?
The legendary 24-hour frenzy during Winter Carnival where students stay up all night building massive snow statues, eating snacks, and playing outdoor broomball
What is the All-Nighter?
Also known as the R.L Smith building
What is the MEEM?
City your OTL's from
What is Katy, Texas?
The online portal used by MTU students to join clubs, track campus events, and manage student organization rosters.
What is Involvement Link?
The iconic double-decker structure connecting Houghton and Hancock that you cross to hit Walmart or local spots.
What is the Portage Lake Lift Bridge?
The outdoor trail system located right behind campus, perfect for mountain biking, cross-country skiing, or clearing your head between exams.
What are the Tech Trails?
The legendary campus building where you can go watch Husky Hockey or skate on real indoor ice.
What is the MacInnes Student Ice Arena?
The exact fuel source (coffee order or energy drink brand) powering your OTL through Orientation Week.
What is Red Bull?
The student section at Husky Hockey games known for relentless chants, pep band energy, and making opposing goalies cry.
Who are the Mitch's Misfits (or the MTU Pep Band)?
The local slang term for people born and raised in the UP, as opposed to "Trolls" who live below the Mackinac Bridge.
What is a Yooper?
The tuition benefit that lets every full-time MTU student ski and snowboard for free right across the canal.
What is Mont Ripley (or the Mont Ripley student pass)?
The high-tech building on the east end of campus home to chemical engineering, materials science, and massive lab spaces.
What is the M&M Building (Materials and Metallurgy)?
The number of times your OTL has lost her HuskyCard or gotten locked out of her room since starting at Tech
once
The student-run radio station broadcasting live from the MUB basement that lets any MTU student host their own music or talk show.
What is WMTU 91.9 FM?