So… What was being one of the first WVU students in 1867 really like?

The WVU football team opened another college football season on Saturday.Thousands of fans made their way into the stadium for the game.

But did you know that the first ever class of undergrads in WVU history could fit inside a single car?

It was on this date, that the West Virginia Agricultural College, renamed West Virginia University a year later, began its first term, on September 2, 1867. Tuition for that first class was $8 for 13 weeks. Room and board would run you $3.50 per week.

There were just two buildings on campus when the first term started in 1867. The buildings that are synonymous with WVU now, were still decades away. The WVU Mountainlair wouldn’t exist for another century; it first opened its doors to serve students in 1968.

There were 118 other students in that first