Campus and Beyond
Here you will find group study rooms that you can reserve, a lab with VR and 3D Printers, and recording studios.
What is Hillman Library?
This location on the North Shore hosts both Steelers and Pitt football games.
What is Acrisure Stadium?
Also accepted: Heinz Field
This is a document listing all the important information and resources in a class. It usually includes a class schedule, assignment due dates, and your instructor's contact information.
What is the syllabus?
Board the wrong bus? Catch the bus on the wrong side of the street? Don't stress! Do this to help get you back on track (or bus route!).
What is check an app (Google Maps, Transit, etc.)?
Also accepted: Ask for directions
This museum, close to Pitt's campus, is one of the only memorials in the United States dedicated solely to all of our military personnel, regardless of their branch of service, status, era or conflict. It's free with your Pitt ID!
What is Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall?
This area includes the Cultural District, Historic District, and Point State Park.
What is Downtown?
This is the term for scheduled time with your professors and teaching assistants outside of the classroom. You are encouraged to use it!
What are Office Hours?
This place has a carousel, restaurants, and a large green space across from the Cathedral of Learning.
What is Schenley Plaza?
The Global Experiences Office is located on this floor of the WPU.
What is the 8th floor?
This neighborhood includes many Pittsburgh shops, grocery stores, and is near the Heinz History Center.
What is the Strip District?
Before sending any emails, be sure to do this to check for grammar and spelling errors.
What is proofread?
Use this for free admission to places like Phipps Conservatory, the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, and the Andy Warhol Museum.
What is your Panther ID?
This place offers drop-in tutoring for courses including Chemistry, Neurosciences, and Statistics.
What is the Study Lab?
This is a quiet neighborhood with main businesses on Liberty Avenue. Businesses include a bookstore called the Big Idea, and many diverse restaurants. Take the 71C or ask Carmen, Cindy, and Will for directions!
What is Bloomfield?
APA, MLA, and Chicago are all example of these, designed to help you credit authors and avoid plagiarism.
What are citation styles?
Also accepted: Bibliographies and works cited.
There are therapy dogs in Cathy every week on this day at 7 PM.
What is Tuesday?
These two neighborhoods visited by classmates are located east of Oakland and both begin with the letter "S". You can the 61 busses to one of them and the 75, 71B, and 71D to the other.
What are Squirrel Hill and Shadyside?
This is the name of the primary street where shops and restaurants are located in Lawrenceville.
What is Butler street?
This two word term means “the ethical standards of integrity by which each student and faculty member is expected to operate”.
What is Academic Integity?
These are 2 things you can do or visit at the O'Hara Student Center.
What is studying, the Writing Center, Thriftsburg, Pitt Pantry, and/or workshops?