And U.Va. doesn't have a campus. The clay of central Virginia is a peculiar orange red that has a way of staining anything not hermetically sealed at all times. The red stains on your favorite jeans will last longer than the memory of how you fell in the puddle. And mud-wrestle they do. You also will develop a persistent scorn for those living further down McCormick Road in the Old Dorms.
First years become intensely defensive of their living area.
This rivalry can turn ugly. As a first year, this will generally not be a problem, since you aren't allowed to have a car anyway. That's right, folks. This is a Middle Eastern country where University officials are negotiating to build a satellite campus. Lined with fraternity houses, this is the focal point of social life on the weekends, as houses lure in students with rivers of cheap beer and bad techno music.