Things to know before attending Georgia Tech:

1. The Campus Recreation Center is located on West Campus.

It has basketball courts, weights/exercise machines, an Olympic pool, and more. It also happens to be very far from East Campus, but you can take the bus on weekdays. Buses do not run on weekends unfortunately. If you enjoy it and go often, consider getting a locker to store your belongings.

2. Apparently the dining hall on West Campus, Woodruff, has bad food.

Living on East Campus allows convenient access to both Brittain and North Avenue dining halls. Both of these dining halls offer omelettes in the morning. North Avenue offers noodles for lunch and stir fry for lunch and dinner, made for each individual based on their choice of ingredients. Brittain offers “burritos” instead, with varying “styles” each day.

3. Brittain’s To Go

Go into the dining hall on weekdays and grab stuff from the area next to the counter that adds up to 4 points. Different items are worth different amounts of points. Best for snacks, the food there is atrocious.

4. East Campus is closer to the fraternity houses.

5. What is a BUZZCARD?

A Buzzcard serves as your campus ID, pass to dining halls with a meal plan, and form of payment with Buzzfunds.

6. What are BUZZFUNDS?

Simply put, it’s like money you load onto your BuzzCARD. Benefit of not being charged tax sometimes.

7. What is a MEAL PLAN?

You get a set number of entrances into dining halls per semester, or unlimited. The freshman plan is unlimited and also gives a modest amount of Buzzfunds and Dining Points to go with it.

8. WHAT ARE DINING POINTS??

Money that you can only use to eat food at dining places at Georgia Tech.

9. Mailbox?

Mine is locked with the wrong combination, never opened it once. Don’t count on having a mailbox at Tech. You’ll want to use the Package Pickup though for ordering from Amazon and the like.

10. Getting back to the ATL airport.

Go to the North Avenue MARTA station and take the MARTA to the airport. It’s that easy. The station is located across the North Avenue bridge from the East Campus residence halls.

11.The WiFi here is of dubious quality, so bring an Ethernet cable if you care about having a good connection.

Speeds are obviously faster when no one’s awake.