Acronyms
GPA- is a number that indicates how high you scored in your courses on average after each semester.
What is Grade Point Average?
Someone who helps you plan your classes and connects you with resources on campus.
What is an Academic Advisor?
Your main course of study in College.
What is a Major?
This celebrity went to the University of Houston - GO COOGS!
Who is Lizzo?
This is the oldest Kardashian sister.
Who is Kourtney?
RA - this is typically a trained upperclassmen college student who lives in the residence halls and acts as a mentor for other students.
You go to this office if you need assistance with your award package or have questions about your scholarships, grants or loans.
What is the Financial Aid Office?
This is the amount of credit hours you need to get a Bachelor's degree.
What is 120 hours?
This celebrity went to Texas Southern University and received a degree in Health Administration.
Who is Megan Thee Stallion?
In the show The Office, Michael Scott hits this person with a company car on company property.
Who is Meredith Palmer?
FAFSA- this is a form you fill out every year to receive federal financial aid.
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
You can go here if you have writer's block and don't know where to start on your paper for class.
What is the Writing Lab?
Something your professor will give you to explain assignments, expectations, grading systems, textbooks, and class policies
What is a Syllabus?
This famous actress attended Texas A&M Kingsville.
Who is Eva Longoria?
This was the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Parasite?
TASFA- this is the form undocumented Texas students complete to receive STATE aid.
What is Texas Application for State Financial Aid?
You go here to receive help editing your resume, LinkedIn, prepping for an interview, etc.
What is the Career Services Office?
A phrase to describe spending time traveling to a different country/countries, and taking college classes while you're there!
What is Study Abroad?
This basketball player for the Phoenix Suns went to the University of Texas at Austin.
Who is Kevin Durant?
This is Rihanna's real name.
What is Robyn Fenty?
FERPA - is a federal law that affords parents and counselors (like CCC) the right to have access to their children’s education records.
What is Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
You visit this office if you have questions about your bill for the semester or if you have questions on a financial hold.
What is the Bursar's Office?
Different social groups who come together to share common interests, often live together, and and hangout often.
This former First Lady of the United States received a degree in African American Studies (minor in sociology) from Princeton University.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This is the year Taylor Swift given TIME magazine’s Person of the Year award.
What is 2023?