Pitt Facts and Campus
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Classroom and Communication Etiquette
Liberal Arts 101
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Visit this center to schedule peer tutoring in areas including Biology and Organic Chemistry.
What is the Academic Resource Center?
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This print item lists important University dates and resources to help keep you organized.
What is the Arts and Sciences Academic Planner?
100
These bus numbers can take you downtown from Oakland.
What are the 61s or 71s?
100
Before sending any emails, be sure to do this to check for grammar and spelling errors.
What is proofread?
100
To discuss your classes and the goals of your liberal arts education before scheduling, visit this person in Thackeray Hall.
Who is your academic advisor?
200
The Office of Career Development and Placement Assistance can give advice about resumes, cover letters, and has an internship prep program. You can find them in this centrally located building on campus
What is the William Pitt Union?
200
A student is considered to have done this, when he or she “presents as one’s own, for academic evaluation, the ideas, representations, or words of another person or persons without customary proper acknowledgement of sources."
What is plagiarism?
200
The ceiling of this room in the Cathedral of Learning is the color of this spice.
What is Paprika?
200
This is one of the best ways to address your instructor in an email?
What is 'professor' or 'Dr.'?
200
A hidden staircase in this Cathedral of Learning room leads to a bedroom loft.
What is the Early American Room?
300
This online portal is where you schedule classes and view your grades.
What is the Student Center login through My Pitt?
300
This two word term means “the ethical standards of integrity by which each student and faculty member is expected to operate”.
What is academic integrity?
300
The Balloon Room located in this museum on the North Shore is meant to represent silver clouds.
What is the Andy Warhol Museum?
300
Arriving to class on time, avoiding cell phone use and side discussions during class, and being attentive are all examples of this.
What is classroom etiquette/ behavior?
300
This room in the Cathedral of Learning is set up like the House of Commons.
What is the English Room?
400
The study abroad program offers study abroad opportunities on every continent except for this one.
What is Antarctica?
400
An article with citations, an abstract, and technical charts and graphs can be considered this type of article.
What is scholarly?
400
"The Milkshake Factory" is located in this Pittsburgh neighborhood.
What is the South Side?
400
Attending these hours can help you get to know your professors and provide an opportunity to answer questions that weren’t addressed in class.
What are office hours?
400
The Office of Freshman Programs offers these on Fridays at 5 to enhance your learning outside of the classroom.
What are films and discussion?
500
You call these people on campus if your safety is at risk.
Who are the Pitt police? 412-624-2121
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This department, abbreviated OUR, offers research-related opportunities to Dietrich School students and is located in Thackeray Hall.
What is the Office of Undergraduate Research?
500
446 is the number of these in Pittsburgh, the largest amount in almost any other city.
What are bridges?
500
This is a good number of words to include in an email’s subject line.
What is 5-10?
500
According to the “Only Connect” article, freedom and this term are values that lie at the core of what we mean when we talk about a liberal education.
What is growth?
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