Scenarios
You are having trouble meeting people like yourself and want to find students with similar cultures and backgrounds. Where should you go?
What are the cultural centers?
This dark roast coffee is forced through tightly packed grounds and shares its name with the Italian word for "expressed".
This legendary coach led the UConn women's basketball team to 12 National Championship wins
Who is Geno Auriemma?
This resource is home to fitness machines, a pool, and even a cafe to get smoothies.
What is the Rec?
This highly popular energy drink brand, known for its colorful cans, is practically a food group during finals week.
What is Alani?
Between classes, homework, extracurriculars, and trying to maintain a social life, you feel completely overwhelmed. Where should you go?
What is SHaW Mental Health/Academic Achievement Center?
This popular carbonated beverage was originally invented by a pharmacist as a medicine intended to cure headaches and fatigue.
What is Coca-Cola?
UConn was originally established in 1881 under this name.
What is the Storrs Agricultural School?
This resource located on Glenbrook road is a place where students go when they aren't feeling their best.
What is SHaW?
In statistics, this is the mathematical concept that students hope will be applied to their grades.
What is the grading curve?
Your friend has stopped going to class, isn't responding to texts, and tells you they're “fine” whenever you ask. You’re worried but don't want to overstep or make things worse. Where should you go?
SHaW Mental health, Dean of Students
This method of melting and cooling chocolate ensures the cocoa butter crystallizes smoothly.
What is tempering?
Students hoping for good luck on exams will often rub the nose of this bronze statue located outside Gampel Pavillion.
Who is Jonathan the Husky?
What is the Center for Students who love Jonathan? (we wish this was a real place)
This is the ultimate academic privilege that honors students guard fiercely, allowing them to pick their classes before their peers.
What is early enrollment?
Your professor says your paper has “good ideas but needs stronger organization and clarity.” Before submitting your final draft, you want feedback on your writing and help figuring out how to improve it. Where should you go?
What is the W center?
Unlike baking powder, baking soda involves this type of liquid ingredient to release carbon dioxide gas for leavening.
What is an acid?
Located on Fairfield Way, this outdoor architechtural feature contains a special echoing spot where anyone standing in the center can hear their voice magnified.
What is the seal? (Outside Babbidge Library)
True or False: You can get a free computer to keep from the IT Help Desk if yours stops working?
False
This is the name for the sudden spike of adrenaline and dread a student feels upon hearing their specific iPhone alarm sound in public.
What is a Pavolvian response/classic conditioning/alarm PTSD?
You realize you’ve spent most of the semester focused on academics and want to make a change. You’re looking for a way to stay active, meet new people, and try activities you’ve never done before—but you don’t want to join a varsity team or commit to a traditional club. You also want options that can work around an unpredictable class schedule. What UConn resource should you explore?
What is the Rec?
Preserved examples of this ring-shaped food were discovered intact by archaeologists excavating the volcanic ash of Pompeii, proving that the ancient Romans enjoyed them with a simple spread of honey.
What is a donut?
Where is Willimantic High School?
This day of the week is when the Q center is closed.
When is Saturday?
In sociology, this two-word psychological phenomenon explains why individuals exert less effort when working in a group than when working alone.
What is social loafing?