Interview Questions

Although I have chosen to study the Virginia Tech Community for my research project, I have not narrowed down exactly what research questions I want to answer. For that reason, I have decided to conduct a variety of informal interviews with fellow Tech students using a series of closed and open ended questions. I hope after gathering their general opinions I will be able to identify a recurring theme if not a range of recurring themes. From that, assuming I have time, I would develop a further list of questions to conduct follow up interviews.

Here are some of my preliminary questions.

Closed questions:
Where do you hail from?
What is your graduating class?
What is your major/intended major?
Are you living on or off campus? Where?
What is your favorite part of campus?
What clubs and organizations, if any, are you involved in?
What is your favorite dining hall?
What is your favorite sport at Virginia Tech?

Open questions:
Why did you decide to come to Virginia Tech?
What is your favorite thing about Virginia Tech?
What makes you proud to be a Hokie?
Do you believe in the thing people refer to as the Hokie Nation?
What makes Virginia Tech different from every other school in the nation and even the world?
What has being a Hokie taught you?
What does ut prosim mean to you?
How do you feel about Virginia Tech being a military college?
If you could change anything about Virginia Tech what would it be?
Knowing what you know now, if you could make the same choice over, would you still choose Virginia Tech?