Free?
The online resource where you can find information about your classes, syllabi, and sometimes even assignments.
What is Blackboard?
The department where you can get help with your resume, find jobs, and get internship stipends
What is the Magner Center? (1303 James Hall)
Special community-building hours, running from 12:15 to 2:15 on Tuesdays, where no classes are scheduled.
What are common hours (or club hours)?
An office located in 227 New Ingersoll Hall is open to all students with a study lounge, events, computer lab, and printing.
What is The Women's Center?
This is where you go for free tutoring in almost any class.
What is the Learning Center? (1300 Boylan Hall)
The three ways to ask your Peer Mentor any question you have about Brooklyn College.
What is email, text, and in-person?
The name of Brooklyn College's canine mascot, with a distinctively pushed-in nose.
Who is Buster the Bulldog?
The person you should speak to first if you're unsure of why you received a certain grade on an assignment.
Who is the professor?
The software, available to BC students for free, which allows you to write papers, make spreadsheets, and make slideshows.
What is Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint)?
The department that you should speak to when you consider withdrawing from a class/classes because you are in over your head.
What is an Academic Advisor (CAASS or Academic Advisement)? (3207 Boylan Hall)
Brooklyn College's motto, which is “Nil sine magno labore" in Latin.
What is, “Nothing without great effort”?
The resource you can go to if you're finding it hard to manage your time or stress; you get anxiety from taking tests; or you just need someone to talk to.
What is Personal Counseling? (0203 James Hall, bcpersonalcounseling@gmail.com)
The on-campus primary healthcare facility where you can get treated without medical insurance.
What is the Health Clinic (114 Roosevelt Hall)?
The on-campus resource where you can find out how much you owe in tuition or pay for them.
What is the Bursar? (Enrollment Services Center, Lobby, West Quad Center)
The year Brooklyn College was founded.
What is 1930?
The person you should speak to when you’re interested in a certain major.
Who is the department advisor?
Common forms of financial aid that students do not have to repay.
What are: grants OR scholarships OR work-study
Wrong answers: loans
The place where you can borrow required textbooks, for two hours, and read them there.
What is the Library Reserve?
The first African American woman ever to be elected to congress, who received her BA from Brooklyn College in 1946.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The individual assigned to you (if you filed FAFSA) who can answer your questions about FAFSA and TAP.
Who is your financial aid advisor? (bcwebcentral-->advisement-->my advisement notes)