Some words of wisdom (to the class of 2013)

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<p>Congratulations fellow eagles! </p>

<p>Here are some words of wisdom that may be useful now or next fall. </p>

<p>In the order I can think of them:</p>

<p>1) The unlimited meal plan will not let you swipe in friends in TDR nor does it give you $300 worth of eagle bucks. It’s not worth it.</p>

<p>2) The sooner you submit your deposit, the less likely you will be in a triple. </p>

<p>3) Freshman writing will probably be harder than you think it will be. </p>

<p>4) Don’t spend all your eagle bucks early in the semester because then you won’t be able to do laundry. </p>

<p>5) Make sure you send your AP scores to AU so that you don’t take a gen ed you don’t need to take.</p>

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<p>How do you get by with only like 200 meals? Isn’t that like less than 2 a day?</p>

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<p>thanks!
anyone else have anything to add?</p>

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<p>I don’t know of any one who has used up 250 meals. (I’m pretty sure that’s the biggest plan.) Very few people eat at TDR 3 times a day. </p>

<p>6) Once you start class in the fall you will only be able to transfer in 6 credits from other schools (excluding study abroad), so you might want to take a class or two over the summer (at a non community college). This way it will count to the 30 credits max you can bring with you from high school, and not the 6 other credits. As always, talk to an advisor first. </p>

<p>7) Take advantage of the writing/ math labs.</p>

<p>8) Honors students. Live on the honors floor. AU tries not to triple honors students up (although it did happen this year). You will probably get to know your floor mates very well because you take classes with them, do honors 101 with them, and attend honors activities with them. Because you know people so well and there are a lot of freshmen, your floor may not be the quietest floor on campus, but my friends in the honors program tell me it is worth it.</p>

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<p>To those who were not admitted on the honours program, can they get on it?? lol how?</p>

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<p>Are there places around the campus to eat for relatively cheap?</p>

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<p>9) Earn a 3.5 or a 3.6 GPA to self nominate yourself for the honors program. [American</a> University Honors Program](<a href=“http://www1.american.edu/honors/admission/current.html]American”>http://www1.american.edu/honors/admission/current.html)</p>

<p>10) Take advantage of the restaurants/ stores that take eaglebucks (list here:) <a href=“https://www.eaglebucks.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_13_1[/url]”>https://www.eaglebucks.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_13_1&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>11) Robek’s Smoothies and Z Burger take eaglebucks, and offer a 15% discount if you show them your “blue crew” card. </p>

<p>12) Go to one of the first volleyball games to get you “blue crew” card, “blue crew” tee shirt, and “blue crew” cup.</p>

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<p>I agree with #1 – I don’t know a single person who needed the unlimited! 200 sounded like too few when I was an incoming freshman, but I ended up only using 125. And I ate normally.</p>

<p>Point being, you use way fewer meal swipes than you would think! Trust.</p>

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<p>Great, keep 'em coming :slight_smile: I’m wondering how to choose the meal plan, perhaps that is to be decided on later and not within the Enrollment & Housing Agreement…</p>

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<p>13) Figure out my.american.edu before school starts. The layout makes no sense, but eventually one “gets used to it.” @ My American you can (eventually) find your schedule, your housing assignment/ roommates, choose your meal plan, accept your financial aid package, select a meal plan and much more. </p>

<p>14) If you submit a photo to AU before you go to summer orientation, you can pick up your student ID card at orientation. Having the card is nice if you want to get student discounts over the summer, but don’t lose it because you’ll have to pay for the replacement. </p>

<p>15) You may get neat “gifts” at orientation, such as lanyards. Keep the lanyards for your keys come fall. (Come fall, you can usually identify fellow freshmen because their keys are around their neck.) </p>

<p>16) Look at all the stuff AU sends you over the summer. I almost missed a paper telling me that I had summer reading for college writing.</p>

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<p>Coolmango,</p>

<p>about 16… on the checklist it says theres a book we need to read over the summer TBA. :(</p>