University

SO YOU'RE STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL

100

THE FORMS YOU FILL OUT AND SEND TO THE UNIVERSITY YOU WANT TO ATTEND

What is an application?

200

THIS WORD DESCRIBES THE COURSES OR CLASSES THAT YOU MUST TAKE IN ORDER TO TAKE SOMETHING ELSE

What is REQUIRED?

300

THIS IS THE GRADE USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT YOU QUALIFY FOR THE PROGRAM. IT IS MADE UP OF ALL YOUR GRADES COMBINED.

What is AVERAGE?

400

This deaprtment decides who gets into university,

What is ADMISSIONS?

500

This is how you are matched to a dorm roommate.

What is a roommate preference questionnaire?

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?

100

THIS IS THE NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY GROUNDS AND PROPERTY

What is CAMPUS?

200

WHEN HOME IS TOO FAR AWAY, SOME STUDENTS CHOOSE TO LIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY ITSELF, IN THESE BUILDINGS

What is RESIDENCE?

300

IF YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNIVERSITY'S COUNTRY, YOU MAY BE REQUIRED TO PAY THIS TYPE OF TUITION

What is INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TUITION?

400

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEND A YEAR STUDYING ABROAD, YOU WILL BE DOING THIS

What is AN EXCHANGE?

500

This is the place where most Chinese students go overseas to university

What is UK? Over 1/3 of Chinese students go to university in UK

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

100

THIS IS THE FIELD YOU CHOOSE TO FOCUS ON

What is A MAJOR?

200

THIS IS THE FIELD YOU PUT SECONDARY EMPHASIS ON IN YOUR STUDIES

What is A MINOR?

300

This is the person who supervises your dorm.

What is a Resident Assistant? RA

400

IF YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR YOUR SCHOOLING, YOU MUST HAVE WON ONE OF THESE EITHER FOR ACADEMIA OR SPORTS (IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN THE STATES SINCE NOBODY ELSE THINKS IT'S WORTHWHILE TO GIVE THEM OUT FOR SPORTS)

What is a SCHOLARSHIP?

500

THIS WORD REFERS TO BOTH THE PERIOD OF TIME AND THE ACTIVITIES DESIGNATED TO FRESHMAN STUDENTS BEFORE THEY BEGIN CLASSES TO FAMILIARIZE THEM WITH THE SCHOOL

What is ORIENTATION?

A,B,C's

100

SO YOU'VE APPLIED TO SCHOOL AND ARE AWAITING THE ANSWER. BEFORE YOU ATTEND, YOU MUST DO THIS TO THE OFFER

What is ACCEPT?

200

THIS ASPECT OF MATHEMATICS HAS PROVEN TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY DOESN'T SAY MUCH FOR IT, BUT IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT THE VALUE OF X FROM 68X+12=105, YOU MAY LIKE IT TOO

What is ALGEBRA?

300

THIS IS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE DEGREE OF MOST UNDERGRAD STUDENTS EARN

What is a BACHELOR degree?

400

IN CANADA, THERE IS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THIS INSTITUTION AND UNIVERSITY. UNIVERSITY DEALS MORE WITH THEORY WHILE THIS PREPARES STUDENTS MORE PRACTICALLY. STUDENTS CAN ATTEND BOTH BUT NOT SIMULTANEOUSLY

What is COLLEGE?

500

YOU ARE NOT LIKELY TO GET INTO A SCHOOL IF YOU DO NOT HAVE GOOD GRADES, IF YOUR APPLICATION WAS TERRIBLE OR IF YOU DON'T HAVE MANY EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. EVEN IF YOU HAVE THESE, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT IF THERE IS A LOT OF THIS

What is COMPETITION?

I'M FEELING LUCKY

100

SOME UNIVERSITIES ARE SO BIG, THEY CANNOT PROCESS STUDENTS SIMPLY BY NAME. FOR THIS REASON THEY MAY ASSIGN YOU ONE OF THESE

What is A STUDENT NUMBER?

200

THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO TEACH YOU IN UNIVERSITY

What are PROFESSORS?

300

Tima of day that you cannot make noise

What are Quiet Hours?

400

YOUR CLASSES ARE DIVIDED. IF YOU ARE IN ARTS, MOST OF YOUR CLASSES WILL BE CALLED THESE. THEY ARE NOT TUTORIALS WHERE YOU DISCUSS THE MATERIAL, THEY ARE NOT LABS WHERE YOU DO EXPERIMENTS. THEY ARE BLOCKS OF HOURS WHERE INFORMATION IS TOLD TO YOU.

What are LECTURES?

500

UNIVERSITY IS HARD WORK. YOU WILL NEED A PLACE TO DRINK. A LOT. THIS COMMON NAME FOR THE DRINKING SPOT BORROWS ITS NAME FROM THE GATHERING PLACE OF WILD ANIMALS IN THE DESERT

What is a WATERING HOLE?