"Adulting" 101
This is the most common color of clothing that should never be washed with your white t-shirts.
What is Red?
Name of the main building on campus where you go to find books, study, or use a printer.
What is the Library?
This is the name for the dreaded (but common) weight gain many students experience during their first year of unlimited dining hall pizza?
What is the Freshman 15?
This is the most common type of student visa required for full-time international students in the U.S.
What is an F-1 visa?
Which older student in your dorm would you turn to if having academic questions, rooming issues, or just to hang out?
This 3-digit number is your "financial GPA" and determines if you can rent an off-campus apartment later.
What is a Credit Score?
Term for a class that you must take before you are allowed to enroll in a more advanced class.
What is a Prerequisite or "Prereq"?
This is the term for the "main square" or grassy area on campus where students hang out between classes.
What is the Quad?
This essential document is issued by the college in the US and is required to apply for your visa. HINT: it lists your program start date and estimated costs,
What is an I-20?
This is the mandatory gathering at the start of the semester where the rules are explained and everyone awkwardly introduces themselves with an "icebreaker."
What is a Dorm or Floor Meeting?
This is the term for a bank account that allows you to withdraw money via a debit card or check.
1 b. BONUS: 50 additional points if you define a "check".
1 a. What is a Checking account?
1 b. Is the definition of a check correct? If yes, 50 extra points.
If you want to change your "major," this is the specific faculty member you must meet with to get approval.
Who is an Academic Advisor?
To optimize your shared bathroom experience, what are TWO essentials?
What might a third thing be? BONUS: 50 points
1 a. Flip flops (or shower shoes) AND a shower caddy
1. b. Bonus 50 points: What is a towel?
Term that refers to the feeling of disorientation or anxiety someone may experience when moving to a new country with different customs.
What is Culture Shock?
This is the slang term for a roommate who is technically assigned to your room and pays rent, but is never actually there because they are always at a partner's house or back home.
What is a "Ghost" or "Phantom" Roommate?
Most dorms require you to use this specific type of "extra-long" bedding that isn't a standard Twin.
What is Twin XL?
The designated time when professors sit in their office waiting for students to ask questions.
What are Office Hours?
This item is often a "no-go" in dorms due to fire hazards.
What is a toaster oven, hot plate or candle?
At college, where is your "home base" for any questions about travel, work, or staying in legal status?
What is International Student Services (ISS)?
Typically, what is the hour in the dorm when things should be toned down to a "dull roar" and what is it known as?
What is 10 pm or 11 pm, and what is "Quiet Hours"?
This is the document you must sign to allow a doctor to speak to your parents about your medical status once you are 18.
What is a HIPAA Release/Waiver?
This document is the "contract" for the class and lists every deadline for the semester.
What is a Syllabus?
This office is known as the "Bursar"—but what is their actual job on campus?
What is the office that handles billing and tuition payments?
When traveling outside the U.S. during a school break, an international student must have this specific "ink-and-pen" signature on their I-20 from a school official, or they won't be allowed back into the country.
What is a Travel Signature (or Travel Endorsement)?
This is the "Golden Rule" of the dorm: Before you borrow your roommate’s milk, clothes, or laptop, you must do this first (even if they said "it's fine" three weeks ago)
What is "Asking for permission"?