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School Slang
  • 24: Store 24, a 24-hour convenience store.
  • Boulder Field: A field on campus property that has a giant boulder in the middle of it. This is also the unofficial campus Frisbee field.
  • College Woods: The area of woods behind the athletic fields, and Boulder Field.
  • The DUMP: The local grocery store also known as the Durham Market Place.
  • Fireplace room: A room in the MUB where students mainly sleep on couches.
  • Frat Row: Also known as Madbury Road, it is where all the fraternity and sorority houses are found.
  • The Ghetto: A group of apartments notorious for being very cheap and very dirty—to say the least.
  • The Greens: A group of apartments on Madbury Street, where weekend parties are very frequent.
  • HoCo: Holloway Commons. The dining hall attached to the MUB.
  • Kurt’s Lunch Box: The guy who sells late-night snacks and sandwiches out of a trailer which can be found behind Mills Hall.
  • The MUB: The Memorial Union Building. This is the main student center on campus.
  • PCAC: Paul Creative Arts Center. This is home to the art majors.
  • Philly: Phillbrook Dining Hall. The building also houses the Phillbrook Café, one of the campus convenience stores.
  • T-Hall lawn: The lawn in front of Thompson Hall that is home to numerous lounging students in the spring.
  • Webcat: The school’s online network for registering for classes, checking grades, and other personal information.
  • The Whitt: The Whittemore Center, which houses the hockey rink and the student athletic center.
  • Zylas: The PK Zylas store where you can find just about anything you will ever need in college life.
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • Find any way possible to bring your car to school.
  • Laundry baskets make great sleds.
  • Sprint is the only cell phone service that works in this area. Period.
  • The fourth floor of the library has the most comfortable chairs to read in.
  • Ultimate Frisbee means more to some people than life itself.
  • Walking 10 miles a day is something you’d better get used to.
Tips to Succeed
  • Buy your books a week early.
  • Don’t take 8 a.m. classes, you will never go to them.
  • It’s a good idea to know what you want to study by the end of sophomore year.
  • Join all the student groups you can in your freshman year, and find people that you really have a connection with.
  • Meet with your professors and get to know them well, and you will always do better than if you didn’t.
  • Work really hard your first year to get your GPA up high, because it’s incredibly hard to raise it once it goes down.
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Courtney23

'14

Psychology

3.8
B+

Social Life

The social aspect of UNH is really good there is always something to do and there are a ridiculous amount of clubs so no matter what you like it's probably there and if it isn't you can start your own club up

Feb 06, 2012

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b4n4n4p3pp3r

'15

Electrical Engineering Technician

4.6
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Unique Things About UNH

One unique thing is that the food is great. Everyday there are many tasty options and great desserts. On special occations they have feasts which are REALLY delicious.

Another is that there are fun destinations surrounding UNH like portsmouth or Boston. Trasportation to each are available and free if you're going to portsmouth.

Finally they have a nice movie theater right on campus that plays somewhat current movies including 3D ones. Also, on warm nights they play them on the lawn for free.

Jan 24, 2012

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ebeals1

'14

Sport and Fitness Management

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Division I Athletics With Division II Opportunities

One of UNH's unique aspects deals with it's Division I Athletic programs. Weather you are a student looking to attend the world class contests or a student looking for an internship, UNH offers a very special program.

Jan 04, 2012

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Facts

Traditions
  • Boulderfest: Boulderfest is the UNH version of Woodstock. Activities include all-day Frisbee, music, food, and a huge bonfire. This event happens every year as an end-of-the-year celebration.
  • Dead Fish on the Ice: There are many traditions at the men’s hockey games. The most popular is throwing a dead fish onto the ice after the first goal of every home game.
  • Solarfest: Outdoor spring concert run completely on solar energy. Put on by the Student Environment Action Coalition, it usually has a lot of local bands and vendors.
  • Stoke Wreath Lighting: The Stoke Wreath Lighting is a tradition where the Stoke Hall staff constructs a giant wreath out of pine boughs and Christmas lights and hangs it from the building with a crane. There is a ceremony to officially light up the wreath, where warm food and music kick off the holiday spirit.
  • White-Out Whitt: White-out the Whitt is a hockey tradition where fans wear white to one of the men’s hockey home games.
Urban Legends
  • Congreve Hall is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a student from early 1900s.
  • It is said that if you do the deed with a special someone in the old wagon on top of Wagon Hill before you graduate, you will have good luck for the rest of your life. You also have to stay there overnight.
  • Stoke Hall, a dorm, was supposedly constructed to be easily demolished with dynamite.

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