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Pittsburgh Neighborhoods
Academics
Hail to Pitt!
100
This is where you go to change your meal plan or replace a lost or stolen Pitt ID.
What is Panther Central?
100
This is where you go if you are having a problem with your financial aid.
What is the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid?
100
The University of Pittsburgh is located in this neighborhood.
What is Oakland?
100
This is the time your professor has set aside for you to meet and discuss questions about the course.
What are office hours?
100
This nationality room has been known to exhibit paranormal activity.
What is the Early American Room?
200
This is where you go to add/drop a class or get a transcript.
What is the registrar's office?
200
This is where you go if you are struggling with one of your classes.
What is the Academic Resource Center?
200
This neighborhood offers open air markets where you can taste different cuisines from around the world.
What is the Strip District?
200
Faculty members may communicate with you using this online system where you can upload assignments, review class notes, post to discussion boards, and more.
What is CourseWeb?
200
This 100 year old panther mascot can be seen cheering at Pitt athletic events.
Who is Roc?
300
This is where you go to declare your major.
What is your advisor's office?
300
This is where you go for discounted tickets to cultural events on campus and around the city.
What is Pitt Arts?
300
Settled by German immigrants, this neighborhood boasts endless options for nightlife.
What is South Side?
300
This document acts as the contract between student and professor and may contain course objectives, requirements, and schedule.
What is a syllabus?
300
The Cathedral of Learning has this many floors.
What is 42?
400
There is where you go if you are injured and can't use the regular shuttles.
What is Disability Resource Services?
400
This is where you go to ask someone a question about buses.
What is the William Pitt Union Information Desk?
400
This neighborhood is home to 20 synagogues and a vintage movie theater.
What is Squirrel Hill?
400
This is the minimum length of time in advance you should ask for a letter of recommendation.
What is two weeks?
400
The University of Pittsburgh was founded in this year as the Pittsburgh Academy.
What is 1787?
500
This is where you go to withdraw from a class or add/drop a class after the add/drop period has ended.
What is the Undergraduate Dean's Office?
500
This is where you go to get involved with intramural sports.
What is Baierl Student Recreation Center (Petersen Events Center)?
500
This picturesque neighborhood features a defunct rail yard built in 1852.
What is Shadyside?
500
Name TWO of the many benefits of a liberal arts education.
What is focus and flexibility, creative problem solving skills, calculated risk taking and experimentation, an appreciation for innovation and research, a well-rounded college experience, and a model for lifelong learning?
500
This University of Pittsburgh researcher discovered the first polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
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