Visit this center for peer tutoring in areas including Biology and Organic Chemistry.
What is the Gardner Steel Conference Center?
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.
What is your academic advisor?
100
Using a calendar, planning ahead, and staying ahead are all important components of this type of management.
What is time management?
100
These bus numbers can take you downtown from Oakland.
What are the 61s and 71s?
200
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?
200
This is one of the best ways to address your instructor in an email.
What is 'Dr.' or 'Professor'?
200
The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences website states that these “…prepare you by emphasizing skills employers want (like critical thinking, problem solving, written and oral communication) and giving you the opportunity to become more aware of our increasingly diverse and interconnected world.”
What are General Education Requirements (GERs)?
200
This print item lists important University dates and resources to help keep you organized.
What is the Arts and Sciences Academic Planner?
200
Attending these can help better your understanding of your classwork and help you get to know your professors.
What are office hours?
300
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?
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 proper classroom etiquette/ behavior?
300
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?
300
This is the first day of finals for the fall 2017 semester undergraduate classes.
What is December 11?
300
Setting deadlines helps not only with your individual work, but also in these assignments requiring you to work with your classmates.
What are group projects?
400
To be eligible to do this, you must have completed 24 credits on a Pitt campus, have a minimum GPA of 2.75 and have a clear Disciplinary Record.
What is Study Abroad?
400
This is a good number of words to include in an email’s subject line.
What is 5-10?
400
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?
400
Before registering for classes, be sure to check this place for your enrollment date and to make sure there are no holds on your account.
What is the Student Center?
400
An article with citations, an abstract, and technical charts and graphs can be considered this type of article.
What is scholarly?
500
You call these people on campus if your safety is at risk.
Who are the Pitt police at 412-624-2121?
500
This is a good amount of time to provide your instructors and supervisors when asking for letters of recommendation.
What is at least a month?
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?
500
These two places or resources can help you learn more about the variety of majors, minors, and certificates you can pursue as an undergraduate.
What are websites, advisors, Majors and Minors expo, etc.?
500
The mission of this Pittsburgh place is “To inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants; to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research; and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.”