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School Slang
  • 1,000 Nights: A semiformal dance for all freshmen and their dates in September, approximately 1,000 nights before their graduation
  • 100 Nights: A semiformal dance for all seniors and their dates in February, approximately 100 nights before their graduation
  • All College Day: Always the Saturday after classes end in May, this day is a school-sponsored event with music, rides, and free food.
  • Campus: The nickname for Campus Pizza, which is packed on party nights
  • The Courts: Watson Courts
  • Externship: Shadowing a Lafayette alumnus and his or her profession for three or four days annually during winter break (a shortened internship)
  • Farinon: Farinon Student Center; it's the center of everything. It currently holds the bookstore, mailroom, and two dining halls in addition to student organization offices.
  • First-years: Freshmen
  • Gilbert’s: The campus coffeehouse with the best cheese fries and wings in town
  • Interim: The six-week period in between the fall and spring semesters
  • The Job Vault: Through Career Services, where alumni-sponsored and outside job postings are offered
  • Lower/Downstairs Farinon: The snack bar downstairs in the atrium of Farinon. Lunch is packed 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.; dinner is between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. It is where everyone basically eats and hangs out.
  • The Pit: The chairs in a lowered enclosed area of Farinon where the Delta Gamma sorority women sit
  • PLA: Psychology lab assistant
  • RA: Resident adviser
  • Senior Week: The week after finals are over and before graduation, seniors stay on campus and enjoy discounts at bars, nightclubs, and special events.
  • Spinning: Indoor dance parties that are always packed, feature loud music, and are usually sponsored by fraternities
  • Sullivan: Referring to the Sullivan lots where students park their cars, located all the way on the farthest end of campus
  • TA: Teaching assistant
  • Upper/Upper Farinon: The main dining hall on campus; better food than the other dining hall on campus
  • WA: Writing associate
  • Wawa: Late-night eatery
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • Do internships.
  • Don’t assume you and your roommate will get along.
  • Don’t be shy about getting to know professors.
  • Drinking is prevalent on campus.
  • It’s OK to reinvent yourself—college is about changing.
  • Making new friends at college takes time.
  • Study abroad.
  • The food? Not so healthy.
  • There isn’t really a business program.
  • We’re stuck on a hill.
Tips to Succeed
  • Apply for an externship.
  • Get to know the professors outside of class—they’ll be a good resource.
  • Go to Career Services beginning sophomore year.
  • Go to class, listen, and take notes.
  • Hand in assignments on time.
  • Know when to party and when to study.
  • Stay in at least one weekend night to do work.
  • Take a wide range of courses.
  • Take advantage of professors' office hours.
  • Use the Internet as a resource for almost everything.
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andreaNWH

Arts '15

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Little Things

- Two on-campus late-night food spots

- Two major dining areas close at 8pm, one of them closes at 9pm on Sundays

- Gigantic sports center with a sauna, ping pong tables, rock climbing wall, squash courts and a gigantic football field

- Great and large step team that competes at other schools, and has diverse members (black, white, Hispanic, Asian)

- Shuttle goes to the bus station regularly, to the mall on Saturdays, and to the cinema on Friday and Saturday nights till late

- Zip car available on campus

- Can borrow DVDs (including TV shows!) from the library, and as many as you wish

- Library closes at 1am Sun-Thurs. and at 10pm Friday and Saturday

- Quiet rooms in library

- Library offers Personal Research Assistants (PRAs)

- Academic Training and Tutoring Information Center (ATTIC) which offers free tutoring and supplemental instruction for math, science, and languages

- Cinema on campus, in student center, with $2 movies

- African and Caribbean students' organization exists on campus

Apr 02, 2012

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cindyloo

Business '15

5.0
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I Love the People

The people at Lafayette are great. Everyone is super nice and knows how to work hard and party hard.

Jan 14, 2012

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GambinoM

History '14

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Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship

This was definitely the deciding factor for me when I was looking at colleges. The Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship (CaPA) is a new program (as of about 2010), into which up to ten incoming students are invited each year. The student must have a creative or performing art, such as music, dance, art, creative writing, etc. The fellowship offers money for the student to use for their art, as well as a place for artists to discuss their projects and to meet other professional artists brought on campus. This is Lafayette's conscious effort to highlight the artistic talents of its students on campus.

Oct 31, 2011

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Traditions
  • Dance Marathon: Pi Beta Phi’s annual philanthropy event is an all-night dance contest in which organizations and other Greek houses participate.
  • Greek Olympics: During the spring semester, all Greek houses play against one another in a number of events, like tug-of-war and mattress races, to crown the champion of the fraternities and sororities.
  • Lehigh/Lafayette Football Game: Probably one of the best weekends of the school year, the game is either at home on Fisher Field, or students are bused over to Lehigh (it alternates annually). It is the oldest rivalry in college football, and it shows. Students spend Friday night drinking, Saturday morning drinking, Saturday afternoon going to the game, taking a nap, and then—guess what?—more drinking.
  • Senior Week: All seniors get to have a special week on campus after finals and before graduation. For about $70, seniors get a wristband that allows them discounts at bars, free food, and special events.
Urban Legends
  • Sororities on campus are not allowed to have a personal chef or own their own house like the fraternities do because of an old Pennsylvania law declaring that a group of more than 12 women living together is considered a brothel.
  • The fifth floor of Pardee Hall is haunted.
  • There is an underground tunnel system below the quad.

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