This is an updated repost of Gabe‘s legendary social media directory from last year. Nothing can really make it better, so I just updated the links and added, like, 2 jokes.
At some point in your career at Wesleyan, The Argus just won’t come out soon enough or—heaven forbid—Wesleying won’t update quick enough for you to get some vital update or piece of news. Luckily for all of us, the fine people in charge of and around Wesleyan University are on top of this social media wagon, and sometimes, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds are your best shot for up-to-the-minute information. But even beyond the immediate, some of these pages and feeds, run by the departments or by student groups or even by anonymous individuals, can be interesting, thought-provoking, hilarious, and full of discussions, tips, commentary, and quips that will enrich your experience here. Or at the very least, give you a cheap laugh.
Here’s an updated collection of the essential (and currently active) social media accounts, as well as some of Wesleying’s personal favorites. This list isn’t complete, and new accounts are being created every year. Like, does Summies really need a parody Twitter? Chime in once again for things you think were passed over, because the official school-approved list (which doesn’t even include Wesleying) just won’t suffice. There are also individual Twitter feeds (both student and alumni) you’ll find useful to follow, but you’re on your own for discovering those. Nobody uses Pinterest, so don’t bother looking.
Primary News Sources (for everything important that goes on campus)
Wesleying
Extremely active social media maintained by various Wesleying staffers. We retweet a lot of stuff, sometimes humorously, sometimes seriously.
Facebook – @wesleying
Wesleyan University
Maintained by the fine folks at the Office of University Communications, extremely active.
Facebook – @wesleyan_u – Tumblr – Flickr – Youtube – Instagram – LinkedIn
The Wesleyan Argus
Wesleyan University’s bi-weekly, student-run newspaper. Only really updates social media or its website when the paper comes out on Tuesday and Friday.
Facebook – @wesleyanargus
Secondary Sources (for more specific inquiries)
Alumni/WesConnect
WesConnect is an online community for Wesleyan alumni. Also maintains an online blog. Alumni are just like you and me, but graduated. There are a bunch of ways for you to get in touch with them!
WesConnect Facebook – @wesconnected – Twitter alumni list – LinkedIn alumni group
Aural Wes
Organizing, booking, and writing the Wesleyan music scene. Their website has some pretty great feature articles, and check their social media feeds for concert updates.
Facebook – @AuralWes
Bon Appetit
The people who run our dining halls, if you didn’t know! It’s about as exciting as a Twitter run by a management company—which it is.
Facebook – @WesleyanDining
Broad Street Books
Your source for books and textbooks and everything book related that’s not at the libraries.
Facebook
Career Center
Internship and job postings, career advice, events, meet and greets, and lots of exclamation marks.
Facebook – @WesCareerCenter
Center for the Arts
Shows, blogs, events, and everything creative and Wesleyan-sponsored. Covers art/art history, music, theater, and dance.
Facebook – @WesCFA – Youtube
Center for Humanities
One of the oldest humanities institutes in the US, and your source for Humanities events (which cover about a third of the departments here).
Facebook – @WesHumanities
Center for Prison Education
Wesleyan’s acclaimed program providing liberal arts education to prisoners in two Connecticut correctional facilities. Their social media posts a lot about prison reform and social justice.
Facebook – @WesCPE
Democrats
Wesleyan Democrats student group, being all liberal-like.
@WesDems
Department of Astronomy
Space is cool so do it.
@WesAstro
Department of Athletics
Scores, games, news, and other posts from our various NESCAC sports.
Facebook – @wescores
Department of Classical Studies
When in Greece and Rome, learn as the Grecians and Romans did.
Facebook
EON
Environmental Organizer’s Network, a coalition of student groups dedicated to solving environmental issues.
Facebook – @WesEON
Film Series
The best f*cking film series you’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing. Not just for shut-ins and Film Majors.
Facebook – @FilmSeries
Germinal Fund
A student-run nonprofit offering microloans and pro-bono consulting to Middletown entrepreneurs. Website!
Facebook – @GerminalFund
Graduate Liberal Arts Studies
For when you’ve finished your four years here and want more.
Facebook – @wesgls
Green Street Arts Center
A Wesleyan-run community center providing arts education, outreach, events, and a recording studio.
Facebook – @WesGreenStreet
Hermes
Magazine of political, critical and creative thought. They just came back from the dead, don’t tweet a lot, but they put out an issue every once in a while.
Facebook – @WesleyanHermes
History & Theory
Wesleyan’s quarterly academic journal focusing on the theory and philosophy of history, with executive editor Ethan Kleinberg, Prof. of History and Letters.
Facebook – @ekleinberg
Information Technology Services
Learn to love them. These guys and gals operate all the tech of Wesleyan, fix computers, solve viruses, and will let you know about any campus-wide technological difficulties.
Facebook – @WesleyanITS
Institute for Curational Practice in Performance
Not just a newcomer to Twitter, but to Wesleyan: “The first institute of its kind, a center for the academic study of the presentation and contextualization of contemporary performance.”
@WesICPP
Library
Art Library, Olin, and SciLi are all united under the Library feeds. They post quotes of the day as well as book-related events and information.
Facebook – @WesLibNews
Long Lane Organic Farm
Wesleyan’s student-run organic farm, producing food to sell to farmer’s markets or the dining hall, or donated to charities.
Facebook – Blogspot
Method Magazine
Wesleyan’s student lifestyle magazine, posting sporadically.
Facebook – @methodmagtweets
New Media Lab
Run by ITS, a tech support team for websites, video production, and other technologies more complicated than Twitter.
@WesMediaLab
Office of Community Service and Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Be civically engaged! Opportunities for getting involved are hereabouts.
OCS Facebook – PCSE Facebook – @Wes_engage – Tumblr
Office of Equity and Inclusion
Didn’t even know this existed until they got a Twitter the other day! Say hello!
@WesInclusion
Office of Residential Life
Your guide to moving in, getting settled, and feeling safe and comfortable at Wesleyan.
Facebook – @WesResLife
Office of Sustainability
Promoting sustainable practices and living across campus, and focused on reducing Wesleyan’s carbon footprint.
Facebook – @sustainablewes
President Roth
Roth-dog himself! Pretty sure he does his tweeting himself, cause there’s a lot of stuff about his newly-released book.
@mroth78 – Blog
Relay for Life
The Wesleyan chapter of the spring overnight event raising money for the American Cancer Society.
Facebook
Russell House
Series of prose and poetry writers, as well as music events, sponsored by Writing at Wesleyan.
@writingatwes – iTunes Podcasts
SHOFCO
Shining Hope For Communities, an amazing charity founded by Kennedy Odede ’12 with its own Wesleyan chapter.
Facebook – @SHOFCO_Wesleyan – @hope2shine
Summer & Winter Sessions at Wesleyan
These just popped up, so I think they’ll be tweeting about Wesleyan’s under-utilized Summer Session and new Winter Session
@summeratwes – @winteratwes
Unlocked Magazine
Student-run art and sexuality magazine.
@UnlockedMag
Usdan University Center
The focal point of activity and central programming space for the University. Unaffiliated with the superior @UsdanCooks.
Facebook
Waves Magazine
An online-only music publication focusing on Wesleyan’s vibrant and eclectic music scene.
Facebook – @WAVES_Magazine – WordPress
Wes, Divest!
Calling on Wesleyan University to clear its investments in fossil fuel companies.
@DivestCoWes
WesHack
Host of a now-yearly two-day tech conference and hackathon
@Weshacks
Wesleyan Media Project
A project tracking all campaign ads run by federal and state election candidates across the country.
@wesmediaproject
Wes Pregame
Game-day sports content, brought to you by IMS.
Facebook – @WesPregame
Weshop
Lets you know when they have watermelons and when customers are being ridiculous.
@WeshopWisdom
WesSlam
Slam poetry team and club hosting competitions and writing workshops.
Facebook
WesStuffed
A student-run food blog. Extensive and constantly updating about finding eats around Middletown and for your own dorm.
Facebook – @WesStuffed – WordPress
Wesleyan University Press
All about the University’s publishing program, focusing on poetry, music, dance, science fiction studies, film-TV, and Connecticut history and culture.
Facebook – @weslpress
WESU 88.1
Wesleyan’s non-commercial community radio station. You can also see playlists and a blog on their website.
Facebook – @WESUmiddletown
WesWell
AKA the Office of Health Education, not only a place for free condoms and safe sex supplies, but also the home of the Peer Health Advocates office. Healthy minds, healthy bodies!
Facebook – @weswell_pha
WesWings and Red & Black Cafe
Owners and employees of the Red & Black Café and WesWings post announcements, specials, promote their workers and alumni, and make nice with other Twitter pages. Highly recommended.
@WesWings – @RBCWes
WILD (Working for Intelligent Landscape Design) Wes
Student group redesigning the landscape of our fair campus, from WestCo to the Butts, documenting with lots of pictures.
@WILD_Wesleyan – WordPress
WSA
Wesleyan Student Assembly, undergraduate government, voice piece for The Man. But usually working hard to make this school better.
Facebook – @WSAnews — Website
Cardinals Sports Pages
Baseball— @WesBaseball
Basketball (Men’s)— @WesleyanHoops
Football— @Wes_Football
Ice Hockey (Women’s)— @WIH_Wesleyan
Lacrosse (Men’s)— @Wes_Lacrosse
Lacrosse (Women’s)— @WesLacrosse
Sailing— @WesSailing
Soccer (Women’s)— @WesWomensSoccer
Softball— @Wes_Softball
Track & Field— @WesleyanTrack
Light Reading (for everything else)
200 Church
Tried to “fit in” with the Wes Twitterati. Now kind of posts social justice things.
@200church
Ampersand
The original Wesleyan humor publication. Found on the back of the Argus and in the deep recesses of the Internet.
Facebook – @WesAmpersand – Tumblr
Giant Joint
Perennial WSA candidate, advocate of legalization, 4/20 enthusiast
@giantjoint420
Overheard At Wes
The funniest things somebody else said on campus. Send in your submissions via email or tweet.
@OverheardAtWes
Summies
Hard to explain.
…
@Summiesisreal
The Real Michael Roth
Not actually the real Michael Roth. Or is he? #thisiswhy
@THE_REAL_MROTH
WeirdWes
“The norm is a little skewed here, and everyone is cool with it.”
@WeirdWes
WesHipster
“wesleyan hipsters. so dope”
@WesHipster
WeSNL
Sketch comedy and video funnies
Facebook – YouTube
Wesleyan Unity
Even more difficult to describe.
@WesUnity
WesWhisperer
See: Overheard At Wes.
@WesWhispers
Writer’s Block
Put together by the residents of 156 High. Usually indiscernable nonsense to people who don’t live there.
@collectivefoot
Other Relevant Accounts Worth Following
In The ‘Cac
An admirable blog covering all 11 schools of the NESCAC. We’re buds with them.
Facebook – @InTheCac
Middletown Patch
Online-only news coverage of Middletown, CT. Website over hereaways.
Facebook – @MiddletnCTPatch
Middletown Press
A daily newspaper covering Middlesex County, CT, run by editor Cassandra Day (formerly of the Patch). Find their website here.
@MiddletownPress
Middletown Police Department
Breaking news updates, arraignment reports, and the occasional #tbt from your friendly local police department.
@CTMiddletownPD
NESCAC
We’re all in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Read up on your competition here.
@NESCAC
NoRA Cupcake Company
Cupcake truck. Find it on late nights and taste heaven. Check for their weekly flavors and new inventions, and delicious photos.
Facebook – @NoRACupcakeCo – Instagram
Post-Wesleying
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but when will they actually post anything?
@postwesleying – Website
Whey Station
A husband and wife-run mobile food (read: artisinal grilled cheese) truck that will become your best friend on late nights. Come here to find out hours and specials.
Facebook – @wheystation
BONUS: Things You Think Are Wesleyan But Aren’t Actually Our Wesleyan
Wesleyan Mutual
“offering specialist financial advice to doctors, dentists, teachers, and lawyers. Please don’t tweet personal details.” Challenge accepted.
@Wesleyan
Wesleyan Church
“Transforming lives, churches, and communities through the hope and holiness of Jesus Christ.” They’re a lot of what you see on #Wesleyan
@WesleyanChurch
Wesleyan College
College, not University. One is an all-girl’s school in Macon, Georgia; the other is us.
@WesleyanCollege
Wellesley College
Again, all-girl’s, in Massachusetts, not us.
@Wellesley
Other Wesleyans
@Wesleyan_university (doesn’t exist)
@wesleyanuniv (not the real one)
And John Wesley’s copycats: @IndWes, @Il_Wesleyan, @KyWesleyan, @OhioWesleyan,@WVWesleyan, @TexasWesleyan, @NEWesleyan, and I’m sure many, many others.