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True or False: If you aren’t happy with your performance up until today, you still have time to turn it around.
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This colorful stretch of bright painted benches on campus, each one designed by a different student organization to show off their school pride, is called this.
What is spirit row?
Your alarm goes off in the morning, and you roll out of bed in this building where you live with other students before heading to class.
What are dorms?
You wake up at 2 a.m. to the person you live with loudly cooking a full meal like it’s noon. This kind of unpredictable living situation is called having one of these.
What is a roommate?
GMU’s school colors include green and this shiny color often associated with treasure.
Gold
This is the cumulative average of the final grades in all of your courses.
What is GPA or grade point average?
Students are told not to step on the plaques near the big statue of George Mason, or you might end up taking longer than 4 years to do this.
What is graduate or get your degree?
You walk into your first class of the day, one of many that all focus on the main subject called your ____. This is what you’ve chosen to study in college.
What is a major?
It’s midnight, and you and your friends suddenly decide food is absolutely necessary, leading to a trip for food at this on-campus building?
What is the dining hall?
At games and events, you’ll see this patriotic character cheering on students. This is the school’s mascot.
What is the Patriot?
These are activities/enrichment pursued outside of your classes that colleges like to see.
Extracurriculars and/or clubs
If you want to undo bad luck from the statue, students say you should rub this specific part of George Mason’s statue for good fortune.
What is Mason’s left toe?
Later, you head to this type of class. A class you picked just because it sounded fun, not because you had to take it for your degree.
What is an elective?
You sit down “just for a minute” between classes and wake up an hour later, confused about where you are and what day it is. This unexpected sleep is called this.
What is a (accidental) nap?
Our school is located in this Northern Virginia city, just outside of Washington, D.C.
What is Fairfax, Virginia?
Failyure to due this with your aplicatoin and esay inkreases ur chances of getting denyed.
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Studying on the lower floors with a bit of background noise is okay, but as you go higher up this campus building, it gets quieter and quieter until even your pencil feels loud.
What is the library or Fenwick Library?
In the afternoon, you go to a student activities fair and realize you can join as many of these groups as you can fit into your schedule.
What are clubs or student organizations?
It’s halfway through the semester, and you realize you’ve been sitting next to the same person but still don’t know their name...this awkward situation is called this.
What is not knowing your classmate’s name?
One of the more unusual club sports at Mason involves playing hockey at the bottom of a pool. This sport is called this.
What is underwater hockey?
This is a written part of your college application that provides admissions counselors with a deeper story into who you are in your own words.
Your essay or personal statement
At our campus pool, legend says this famous Olympian once broke a world record there and joked he’d come back if anyone ever beats it.
Who is Michael Phelps?
As the day winds down, you stop by a creative campus spot filled with tools like 3D printers and supplies where you can design and build projects.
What is a makerspace / Mason Innovation Exchange / MIX
You tell yourself you’ll start your assignment later, and suddenly it’s midnight and you’ve done everything except that. This bad habit is called this.
What is procrastination?
Mason competes in NCAA athletics at this top division level, the highest in college sports.
What is Division 1 (D1)?