Dartmouth College

Know the slang, know the school. The following is a list of things you really need to know before coming to Dartmouth. The more of these words you know, the better off you’ll be.

Appalachian Trail; runs through campus.

Online Web site containing personal academic information.

Online service where professors post course material.

E-mail; can be used as any part of speech.

Community director; no one’s sure what they do, except boss around the UGAs.

College Courses, interdisciplinary in nature.

Student newspaper; the nation’s oldest and, many allege, worst.

Independent conservative student newspaper.

An account used for on-campus, non-food purchases; it’s not real money.

Student health center.

System for exchanging music and movies.

Everything But Anchovies; they deliver until 2 a.m.

Facilities Operations and Management.

Liberal, schoolsupported newspaper.

Foreign study program.

Huge grassy rectangle at the center of campus.

Hinman Box, where you pick up your mail; located in the Hop.

Hanover Police; REALLY avoid when drunk.

Hopkins Center; performing arts center of campus.

Hometown honey, with whom you will break up shortly after arriving on campus.

Language Study Abroad.

Non-recording option; when invoked, allows you to receive an “NR” if you fail to achieve a desired grade in a class.

Office of Residential Life.

Suspended; named after the administration building.

Beer pong; played exclusively with handle-less paddles

Name of network for Apple users.

Robinson Hall; home of the Dartmouth Outing Club and other student organizations.

Rockefeller Center; government center.

Surrounds part of the Green; don’t sit on it if you’re not a senior.

The Green Book; contains pictures of all the freshmen.

The large group in which most freshmen travel.

All-purpose word to describe anyone or anything about which you are skeptical; use liberally.

Large, tomb-like home to a secret society, located in the middle of campus.

Safety and security; avoid when drunk.

Used most often in place of “quarter;” saying “semester” will give you away as a newbie in a heartbeat.

Dining hall and engineering school. Pay attention to context clues.

Hastily constructed and undesirable dwellings near the river.

Fellow member of your Freshman Trip.

Undergraduate assistant; a supposedly less mean version of RA.

Fraternity (and sorority) row.