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School Slang
  • 1 Card: A multi-functional ID/debit card for declining-balance accounts such as dining, health services, and copying
  • Banner: Banner is a Web site for accessing all manner of academic information, online discussion forums, campus directories, class rosters, tuition statements, local weather, and news headlines from the East Carolinian.
  • College Hill: Often abbreviated as “the Hill,” College Hill is the dorm neighborhood on College Hill Drive, which starts near Fletcher Recital Hall and Brewster and winds over to 14th Street towards the stadium.
  • MailMarshal: The spam blocker for PirateMail
  • The Mall: The Mall is the green area on Central Campus between Joyner Library and Wright Auditorium, which is home to some of the last stately trees on campus, large numbers of squirrels, and a pair of hawks who have sometimes preyed on the squirrels.
  • Mendenhall: The Student Center is named for Cynthia Mendenhall, former director of the Student Union; it’s not “Menden Hall.”
  • NSO: Neighborhood Service Offices are located in each dorm neighborhood. Students can rent vacuum cleaners and borrow keys if they lock themselves out of their rooms.
  • Pirate Bucks: Pirate Bucks is the name for the account that works like a tax-free debit card for students to buy food on campus.
  • PirateMail: The ECU e-mail service
  • Tailgaters: Not referring to sports fans; tailgaters are non-residents or non-students who sneak into dorms behind residents.
  • West Campus: The name for the medical school campus across town near the hospital
  • West Neighborhood: Dorm neighborhood near the Rec Center and West End Dining Hall �
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • Budgeting is key for students who are supporting themselves.
  • Buy books after the first week of classes.
  • College is not high school. Students are supposed to take notes in class.
  • Downtown ceases to be exciting after the first semester here.
  • Going to class and learning the schedule before classes start are important.
  • It is okay to change courses of study, even several times, and gen-ed classes can help.
  • Learning to say no to distractions is important.
  • Living on campus is sometimes better than not.
  • New students should carry a campus map until they know where they are supposed to be.
  • On-campus housing is overpriced.
  • Parking is awful.
  • Plan to go to class the day before fall break and spring break because many professors have tests.
  • Students should not feel like they have to get a job.
Tips to Succeed
  • Check campus e-mail.
  • Get a calendar, and use it to write down homework, meetings, long-term assignments, and fun things to do.
  • Go out and have fun every now and then.
  • Go to class.
  • Learn to budget your money and time.
  • Study! Read! And if not those, then at least go to class! �
  • Try to keep a good balance between school, work, family, and social obligations.
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currint11

Elementary Education '15

3.8
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Jobs on Campus

ECU offers students jobs on campus, making job search less difficult. Student can drive the transportation buses(after achieving licenses), work as tutors, guides, teacher assistants, and many other opportunities. Students are more likely to work, if their job is located on campus, withing walking distance or bus routes, because some students do not bring their cars. Therefore, ECU gives the perfect set up by going to class, living, and working all in the same place!

Apr 18, 2012

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tinavue

Therapeutic Recreation '15

4.6
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Medical Programs

I picked East Carolina because they have so many different kinds of health care majors. I knew it was the field I want to enter, but I was not sure at first what I want to do.

Apr 11, 2012

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International Studies '14

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Honors College and School Spirit

They are trying to increase the number of good students on campus, by implying the new honors college. There is also a great deal of school spirit on campus. There is a lot of school pride.

Mar 15, 2012

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Traditions
  • Barefoot on the Mall: Barefoot takes place in late April, usually when students need to be finishing projects and studying for finals, but it is still fun to visit student organization tables, race on inflatable obstacle courses, and listen to the concerts.  
  • Greek Week : Greek Week is used for Greek bonding and Rushing and includes a myriad of events, such as a pig pickin’ and a Miss Greek Week contest. Students may see ECU’s Greek groups at information booths on Wright Plaza, and there are usually lots of “smokers,” which are mixers and interest meetings.
  • Halloween: Halloween in Greenville is widely known and is probably the largest one-evening outdoor celebration in Greenville apart from the 4th of July.
  • Iron Pour: Ever year around Homecoming or Halloween time, the School of Art hosts the Iron Pour, which attracts artists from all over the country. It is definitely a cool event to watch, especially on a cold night when the orange sparks are flying everywhere and the heat wafts around the sculpture yard.
  • Midnight Madness and Mardi Gras: On Halloween and sometime around Mardi Gras, Mendenhall hosts events. A valid 1 Card must be shown at the door. Midnight Madness usually lasts from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Halloween night. At past Mardi Gras events, there has been a giant Alligator King cake and a late-night breakfast buffet of Cajun food. Drag shows have been very popular in recent years, as well.
  • Pirate Palooza: The Pirate Palooza usually takes place a day or two before classes start in the fall. Students may get free stuff, like key chains and pens, and compete for free tuition and textbooks.
  • Polar Bear Pool Party: Usually sometime in January, the outdoor pool at the Rec Center opens for an evening, and adventurous students can plunge in to compete for prizes or just for the fun of it. �
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Always around Halloween in the fall and then sometime in the spring, The Rocky Horror Picture Show plays in Hendrix Theater. Prop bags are provided, there is a costume contest, and the crowd is always rowdy. Some people have streaked across the stage during the film, much to the amusement of the audience.
  • Sonic Plaza Stakeout: The SPS works best when the Sonic Plaza is fully operational and involves going to see all of four sculptures emerge from the clock tower near Joyner Library consecutively, all in the same day. A rooster comes out and cockle-doodle-dooos in different pitches in the morning, and a grouping of miniature horns comes out at noon. At sunset, a canon rolls out, with pirate-like “heave-ho!” sound effects, and fires, releasing a puff of smoke. Then the light comes on under the mist cloud—which is fun to hide in when there is no wind—and the cloud rises thickly for several feet. At midnight, a jester emerges to an aural collage of carnival music and quotes about time.
  • Step Shows: Step shows, sometimes performed as charity fundraisers, are sponsored several times a year by ECU’s historically African American Greek organizations. The competitions, which are between the different fraternities and sororities, showcase group-specific step routines and draw large crowds of students and alumni. Students should not be allowed to graduate unless they have attended at least one step show during their time at ECU.
Urban Legends
  • Cotten Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a girl who supposedly hung herself in the shower years ago after a heartbreak. That is why the showerheads are so low in Cotten now. Numerous students have reported things being moved in their rooms and that posters have been removed from the walls and laid flat across their beds while both roommates were gone. Some students say they have awakened to see the ghost walking away from their beds or standing near their closets. The ghost is friendly, so there is no need to be scared of her.
  • The University installed sprinklers on the corner of Fifth and Reade streets because the guys playing Frisbee and the girls laying out in bikinis were too much of a distraction for passing traffic.

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