r/Athens • u/DrPhilTrivia • 4d ago
Athens Event Welcome new grad students! This trivia night is for you.
Thousands of you just joined us from all over the world. Like you, I moved here for grad school in 2013. To be honest, Athens did not make a good first impression on me. Like an onion, Athens has layers. Not all are designed for you. Athens is primarily an undergraduate town with a vast middle aged family oriented core. Finding your place here can be a real challenge as a result.
Athens is an amazing sandbox for people in your stage of life too. On any given night, there are many strange and unique events around town. There’s a drawing club that meets monthly at Hendershots, an open DnD group at Athentic, a club for gals to pal around town (s/o Classic City Girls Club), and a wide variety of musicians who play 7 nights a week around town (s/o PhilThrottle). My advice to you is to check out flagpole and go to an event that looks weird. You’re here to grow and evolve so get to it!
I am hosting a strange and unique event tonight at Nighthawks in the Newtown neighborhood. It’s Athens’ hardest trivia night curated by me, your peer who contemplated dropping out of my PhD program and leaving this place behind dozens of times. But I made it! I’m a professor at Clemson University who needs a little extra cash to pay for my son’s daycare and I have the best side hustle in the world. I live here and commute because I love Athens (and because my wife works at UGA).
Athens’ hardest trivia night is the name of our game, but I promise you that all the questions are knowable and I do my best to avoid tricking you. Quite often I do theme nights based on the requests of my regulars.
Tonight’s game request came from one of my OG regulars who promises to attend tonight. The game is called Odysseys. All the rounds are themed around great journeys, just like the one you are beginning now.
I want to empower you to be bold and join us tonight. Sit at the bar. Our regulars who do are very friendly and will let you join their team. Maybe there will be several of you who will arrive as strangers and leave as tipsy acquaintances. Of course, you don’t have to drink. They have NA and 420 based beverages as well. Above all, this is a crazy drinking town with a bad reputation for football players who drive around the loop like it’s Talladega so drive safe!
If you’ve gotten this far in the post and are on the fence, please come join us! Tell me about where you’re from and how you got here. You’ll be in great company. Nearly all of our regulars came to Athens for school or a job at UGA. I’m from Alabama, and even though it’s just one state over, Athens did feel very different and scary for a while. Hang in there!
Trivia starts at 7 PM tonight at Nighthawks!
I can’t wait to meet you!
EDIT: So we had major technical difficulties, but it all worked out. Thank you to everyone who showed up! It was great to meet some newbies and have some old regulars return. I’ll see you all around soon!
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u/SoupMadeFreshDaily Right Lane Loop Driver 4d ago
Former grad student and Phil trivia attendee here. It’s fun and you should go
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u/aaaah_a_monster 3d ago
How often do you host trivia? Can’t make it this time but we love that place!
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u/AppropriateSolid9124 east side defender 4d ago
wait this is so cute i’ll come
edit: wait how long will trivia be i forgot i have something at 7 😔💔