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School Slang
  • ________-Year : Used to denote your grade instead of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. Incoming students are first-years, sophomores are second-years. You get the idea.
  • “New College Time”: Slang for “it will start at least ten minutes late”
  • Alum: Virtually anyone who has attended New College at some point in time, whether they graduated or not
  • Area of Concentration (AOC): Your major
  • The Asolo: FSU theater building adjacent to campus
  • Bayshore: The road that runs directly in front of the library
  • Bocce: A lawn bowling game popular on campus
  • The Bones: A student-faculty softball team
  • Cap: A limitation on the number of people in a class
  • Capoeira : A Brazilian combination of martial arts and dance popular on campus
  • The Catalyst : The student newspaper
  • Contract : A form that lists classes and goals for the semester that is reviewed by a contract sponsor, who is a faculty member
  • Cop Shop: The campus police station
  • Crease: Any area between two buildings, but generally used to name the area between Dort and Goldstein
  • The C-store: The convenience store inside Ham Center
  • Disorientation: A huge party held the Saturday before classes begin
  • Dortstein: A nickname for Dort and Goldstein residence halls on West Campus
  • Fishbowl: A room in Ham Center with plate glass windows or a Pei room with a picture window
  • Freegans: Students, sometimes vegans, that will eat leftover food to minimize waste
  • The Hub: A room in the Ham Center devoted to making sure that you make the most out of your New College career
  • Independent Research Project (IRP): A self-directed class or project sponsored by a professor
  • Independent Study Project (ISP): A month-long project equivalent to a semester’s worth of work in one class that is usually completed in January
  • Marriott: The former name of Sodexo, our food service provider. Students still call it Marriott, though
  • Marriott Money: The prepaid money that is used to buy food in the cafeteria or the C-store
  • Open Room: An open invitation for the campus to visit a room to learn about a particular activity
  • Palm Court Party (PCP): A huge themed Wall occurring three times a year: Halloween, Valentine’s, and graduation
  • Student Allocations Committee (SAC): A group of elected students who deal with money allocations for non-academic events
  • Sudakoff : The conference center on East Campus
  • Thesis: A long, tedious project required for graduation
  • Thesising: Slang for “writing a thesis”
  • Towne Meetings: An open forum to update students on what is going on on campus
  • Townies: Non-New College students who sometimes attend Walls
  • Wall: A weekend party occurring Friday and Saturday nights in Palm Court or Ham Center if the weather’s nasty
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • Independent Study Projects truly stress independence. To some extent, they are graded liberally and often not taken seriously by faculty or by students. They serve as a way for students to relieve stress between semesters and explore topics interesting to them. While they can be used as opportunities for serious scholarship, some use them to explore topics of study that they wouldn’t usually have the time to explore.
  • Some classes are offered only every other year, and it can be difficult to complete requirements if one changes his or her major late in the game.
  • The 10 to 1 student to faculty ratio does not mean that you are immune to getting capped out of classes. Some courses are just popular, and there is no solution to the problem.
  • When the admissions literature emphasized the fact that New College is for the self-motivated, they weren’t kidding. This applies to most aspects of student life. Nobody will hold your hand, and your study habits must be up to par.
Tips to Succeed
  • Acquire a reading habit. Reading loads are immense at New College. If you’re not used to it, you can fall behind.
  • Go to professors’ office hours. Office hours are underutilized and can be a great way to establish rapport with the faculty.
  • Know what you are getting into. Many applicants apply because they hear that New College is a good, inexpensive school, but they don’t grasp the concept of a liberal arts college and what that entails. Understand that New College has an intentionally unique academic program, and that the senior thesis is a reality that must be prepared for.
  • Visit the campus. It will make salient some of the differences between NCF and more traditional colleges.
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ebennett

'12

Anthropology and Archaeology

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Bam Bam Bam

Some unique things: we have the Bike Shoppe, which is a student-run volunteer-based workshop where you can learn how to fix your bike. We also have the Four Winds, a student-run vegetarian/vegan cafe. I talked about the contract system in the previous question, but basically it's a system where we have no GPA or letter grades, but instead a "narrative evaluation," in which our professor writes about our performance in class. These are particularly essential to graduate school admissions and they are the reason for why nearly everyone who goes to New College also goes on to grad school. The social life here is also pretty unique. I would say that most people don't leave campus; we have outdoor parties called "walls" every Friday and Saturday, and the campus police here are awesome and super chill - their main concern is to keep us safe from "townies," but they don't interfere with our fun basically ever unless there's a noise complaint. Another unique academic aspect is ISP, or Independent Study Project, which is for the month of January. We either design our own ISP or we can choose from a list of group ISPs, and basically for a month we take only one class. It's a really chill period and a nice way to return to school after the winter break - it eases you into school instead of pushing you right in.

Dec 04, 2010

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shiryatsya

'10

Chemistry

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Amazing

Undergraduate research. We do it and a lot of it. There are some profs who will talk to you for however long you are willing to talk.

Walls are awesome (and great at community building).

Apr 01, 2010

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Urban Legends
  • Every year, students complain that the incoming first-years are “more conservative and are changing New College.” However, it has been generally accepted that this is always an exaggeration as people have been saying this since NCF’s inception. It is known as the “back in the day myth,” and someone wrote a senior thesis about it, which includes an amazing film. You can watch it in the thesis library.
  • There are rumors of a ghost in old Caples, which is a building that is on the bay but disconnected from campus. Some faculty have their offices there. As legend has it, there once was mentally ill girl who had been kept in an upstairs room and eventually starved to death. People say that they can hear a piano playing there at night. I have even heard of some police officers making this claim.

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