For New Students

Hello First Year students.  We know that because this is your first year at BSU you are constantly looking for new classrooms, getting mail, hunting down information and filling out paperwork.  The row of check-off boxes beside errands on your "to-do" list seemingly never ends.  Therefore, the index below is a list of links we felt would prove to be helpful. Please contact us if you have any suggestions for what else may be helpful to add, or if you have questions regarding the technical use of this web site. 

Telephone

The BSU directory

Frequently useful numbers

Special Interest - Many incoming college students are meeting new people and adjusting to a new environment.  However, there is no reason you can’t get involved before you’ve even had a chance to get settled in.  Not surprisingly, attending or participating in things you’re genuinely interested in is a great way to meet people who share your personal interests. 

Fire Ring Voices

Dust and Fire

Rivers Meeting Project

Groups and clubs

Writing Students Help and Information Sources

The Writing Center is not only for writing students, but for everyone who writes papers for college courses. Thus it is for every college student.

"You don't even need a paper to come in.  Sometimes if the professor gives an assignment we can help clarify what the assignment means.  We help with all aspects of writing - that means any stage of the process.  Don't feel you can't come in if you're not done with your paper.  Come in even if you're just brainstorming, or doing a first draft."  - Ariana at writing center

The Hole in the Wall is an office in third floor Haag Sauer Hall open to all writing and English students. It contains a computer, senior projects by former writing students of BSU, and various books/other resources on the writing process. This room, however, is locked but an attendant from the third floor main reception center in Haag Sauer Hall can open it upon request.

Verb-L is an email listserve that sends out english related news events and careep oportunities. Do not reply to Verb - L though, because your e-mails will go to everyone on the list (and not just to the person who sent them).

Getting around Campus - Don’t be afraid to use a map, or ask directions.  It may be easy to get lost in the upper levels of the academic buildings or down in the tunnels the first time you dare to use them (perhaps you are desperate and it is raining or something). However, these time consuming setbacks need not be met as a nuisance or an aggravation but rather as an adventure.  Just remember that you can ask directions! 

Places to study

Computer Labs

Campus Map

Registration, Choosing Classes, finding Dorm rooms

How to register for classes

Classes and course descriptions

Liberal education requirements (categories 1-10)

Professors

Department Contacts

Dorm buildings and floors with rooms available to first year students. 

After College - After college is only the beginning and you may have more options than you think.  An excellent career info resource is the Career Services office in Sanford hall.  If you have an idea of what you want to do, look into it.  If you have not settled on a desired career yet, look into everything from teaching, to journalism, to the publishing of creative works.  It is even possible to begin making money during college through the publishing of freelance magazine articles, short stories or novels written during free time, or even writing for the student newspaper. 

Careers in English

Scholarships

English Department Scholarships

Interdisciplinary Scholarships - A few of these are available to English Students as well. One example is the Milowski Scholarship, for which applications are available in the main reception center of third floor Haag Sauer Hall. A complete booklet of all available scholartships (other than the departmental ones) can also be picked up at the Admissions office in deputy. All scholarships in that booklet are applied for with a single application which is also available in the admissions office.