💫 Campus Life
This UTD facility is the go-to place for working out, playing recreational sports, and participating in fitness programs.
What is UREC / University Recreation?
Rather than traditional one-on-one tutoring, this program places students into structured group sessions connected to historically difficult courses.
What is Supplemental Instruction (SI)?
You wake up with symptoms of an illness and want to be evaluated on campus. Which UTD resource should you contact?
What is the Student Health Center?
Instead of randomly searching Instagram for clubs, what type of official UTD resource can students use to discover registered student organizations?
What is the Student Organization Center / official student organization directory?
What does HPAC stand for?
What is the Health Professions Advising Center?
You want to attend campus events, find places to hang out between classes, and grab food without leaving campus. This major campus hub is a good place to start.
What is the Student Union (SU)?
You understand your course material but need someone to review the organization and clarity of your research paper. Where should you go?
What is the Writing Center?
In what building AND room can students find the Student Health Center?
What is SSB 4.700?
A student wants to meet people who share their heritage and participate in cultural events. What category of student organization would be the best place to start?
What are cultural student organizations?
You want someone to review your résumé for a clinical job or internship. Which university resource would be more appropriate for the résumé itself: HPAC or the University Career Center?
What is the University Career Center?
You're interested in spending a semester overseas while still earning academic credit toward your UTD education. What opportunity should you investigate?
What is Study Abroad / Education Abroad?
Your presentation is tomorrow. Your research is finished, but your delivery, organization, and speaking skills need work. Which UTD resource specializes in this?
What is the CommLab?
A student needs mental-health support rather than treatment for a physical illness. Which campus service is the more appropriate resource?
What is the Student Counseling Center?
Name three different types of student organizations a student could join at UTD.
Any three such as academic/professional, cultural, recreational, service, social, or pre-health organizations
A pre-dental student wants help planning prerequisites and preparing for the professional-school application process. Which resource should they use?
What is HPAC?
You're struggling to consistently afford groceries but don't necessarily need medical or academic assistance. Which UTD resource would be most directly useful?
What is the Comet Cupboard?
This academic-support program uses small groups and a trained peer leader to work through challenging course material collaboratively rather than simply providing answers.
What is Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL)?
A student has a documented disability and needs to arrange academic accommodations. Which UTD office should they contact?
What is the AccessAbility Resource Center?
SCENARIO: You're a computer science major planning for medical school, but you want your extracurricular activity to have absolutely nothing to do with academics or medicine. Name TWO categories of organizations that would make sense.
Examples: recreational, cultural, arts/hobby, service, or social organizations.
SCENARIO: You want research experience, but instead of simply volunteering in a professor's lab, you're looking for a structured undergraduate research opportunity associated with UTD. Name one program/opportunity students could investigate.
What are programs such as the Green Fellowship or other UTD undergraduate research programs?
You want to study abroad but the cost is stopping you. Name the UTD scholarship specifically associated with helping students fund international education experiences.
What is the International Education Fund (IEF) Scholarship?
A student isn't necessarily failing a particular class but is repeatedly procrastinating, managing time poorly, and using ineffective study methods. What resource is more appropriate than subject tutoring?
What is Academic Success Coaching?
CENARIO: Your friend has been extremely overwhelmed for weeks. They're sleeping poorly, struggling academically, and say they don't know where to start. They aren't asking for tutoring or career advice. Which UTD resource would you recommend first?
What is the Student Counseling Center?
CHALLENGE: Your team has 15 seconds to name five actual UTD student organizations.
Instructor verifies the organizations.
Put these events in the most logical order for a new pre-health student:
A. Apply to professional school
B. Meet with HPAC and understand requirements
C. Build clinical/research/service experiences
D. Prepare for the appropriate entrance exam
B → C → D → A