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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOOD: Cheap, quality food can be found off-campus, p. 7 PARKING: Avoid the dangers that lead to tickets, p. 8 TIPS: Websites offer professor reviews, scheduling help, p. 18 MAJORS: Don’t be afraid to change paths, p. 21 STUDY SPOTS: Find the best places to get working, p. 22

Fall 2013 Freshman Orientation Guide

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Online tools help students succeed College is not easy.

That is a fact that any freshman should know upon entering this mystical world of all-nighters, classrooms À OOHG ZLWK hundreds of students at a time and coffee. Lots of coffee.

Fortunately, there AGGI ASHAGRE are a few Contributing Writer online tools that every college freshman can pick up WR PDNH WKH À UVW \HDU D OLWWOH less challenging.

strong note takers.

Students are able to upload all of their notes for a speFLĂ€ F FODVV LQ WKH KRSHV WKDW LW will be useful to a student who will take the same class in the future.

Through the University’s course management system, Moodle, all students have access to the emails of other students in each of their classes.

More often than not, freshmen make the mistake of emailing their whole classes asking for notes or completed study guides. However, since Noteswap grants access to all of the notes and study guides NOTESWAP that one needs, there is no reaNoteswap is the mecca for son to spam hundreds of classVWXGHQWV WKDW QHHG D VSHFLÀ F VHW mates with that kind of email. of notes for missed classes. It’s also useful for those who make QUIZLET it to every class, but just aren’t When studying for a

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CONSTRUCTION

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Throughout the city, thirty-two projects have As incoming freshmen been completed within the from various cities descend SDVW ÀYH \HDUV DQG WKHUH DUH into their new Baton Rouge currently twelve upcomhomes this fall, many will ing projects in the planning notice that much of the city SKDVH ZLWK ÀYH LQ WKH GHis currently under construc- sign phase. tion.

Of the sales and use tax, According to the East 70 percent of the proceeds Baton Rouge Capital Im- are used to help improve provement Projects web- the parish’s roadways. Each VLWH WKHUH DUH FXUUHQWO\ ÀYH project that has fallen under projects under construction The Green Light Plan has as part of The Green Light had a budget of more than Plan. $1.6 million .

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In addition to construction throughout the city, the University also has active construction sites throughout campus.

The largest project underway is the southern expansion of Tiger Stadium.

Construction began in fall 2012 and is expected to be ÀQLVKHG E\ IDOO ³ just in time for the football season, according to The Lemoine Company Project Portfolio.

When construction is ÀQLVKHG WKH FDSDFLW\ RI 7Lger Stadium will reach almost 100,000.

The UREC will also be undergoing renovations within the next few years.

It will be expanding its central building by 270,000

square feet, as well as adding a leisure pool in the shape of the letters LSU, a half-mile indoor running trail and new tennis courts.

Expansion is currently VHW WR ÀQLVK DW WKH VWDUW RI the 2015-2016 school year.

Unfortunately, incoming freshmen will be surrounded by construction for most of their college experience at LSU, but larger and louder crowds in Death Valley and the relaxing leisure pool will make for fair consolations.

Contact Aggi Ashagre at aashagre@lsureveille.com

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Baton Rouge hosts cheap, good eats Every freshman makes the same mistake: eating on-campus food for every meal, even though there are a m p l e places surrounding campus to grab cheap grub.

TREY LABAT StartStaff Writer ing with the places within walking distance of campus, Raoul’s Deli offers one of the best and most affordable burgers in Baton Rouge.

Don’t be fooled by the seemingly run-down building or the Five Guys Burgers and Fries chain right across the street or the seemingly run-down building — Raoul’s offers juicy hand-made patties for a great price.

Right next to Five Guys and Raoul’s lies the Mexican paradise that is Chipotle. Again, some may be fooled by the Serrano’s Salsa Company across the street, but Chipotle is the more cost-effective spot of the two. The not-so-secret PHQX LV VRPHWKLQJ GHÀQLWHly worth checking out with a quick Google search.

On Thursdays, Buffalo Wild Wings offers a special 60-cent-per-wing deal on boneless wings, which other wing places struggle to top.

For those freshmen with sushi cravings, Kaminari is the place to go.

The sushi buffet (yes, it’s a buffet) offers a great selection of sushi throughout the day and even gives patrons the option of fresh hibachi.

Lunchtime pricing offers the best deal, as it gets a little pricey at night.

Right next to Kaminari

is Pita Pit, a pita shop that offers plenty of options and even does breakfast pitas.

Pita Pit also delivers until 3 a.m., which can prove to be convenient for late-night study sessions.

One can’t talk breakfast around campus without mentioning Baton Rouge staple Louie’s Cafe. The 24-hour breakfast joint has been running since 1941, and offers a home-cooked breakfast vibe. Louie’s is a late-night favorite for those returning to the dorms from Tigerland as well.

Places within driving distance of campus are plentiful as well. Kolache Kitchen is another solid breakfast place. The recently opened restaurant — specializing in different types of Mexican breakfasts — offers cheap food close to campus.

If the appetite for burgers isn’t satiated by Raoul’s, the traveling food truck Curbside Burgers offers what The Daily Reveille determined to be the best burger in Baton Rouge in spring 2012.

For the freshmen who love sports, Walk-On’s is the trademark sports bar near campus. The sports bar offers a wide selection of food, including a Dunkin’ Donuts bread pudding, and ample places to watch TV throughout the restaurant and bar area.

Don’t make the same culinary mistakes every other freshman makes.

The campus offers a lot more than The 5 and the 459 Commons.

Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @treylabat_TDR

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University parking proves difficult This bit of advice for incoming students can go a long way in saving their time, aggravation and money: be careful and aware of where you park your car.

When parking anywhere in Baton Rouge, it is wise to JAMES MORAN observe all Contributing Writer posted rules and signs.

Failure to do so can, and in this city, will often cost you.

This is especially true when trying to park on campus. The University’s campus is notoriously short on parking spots, and the DeSDUWPHQW RI 3DUNLQJ 7UDIÀF and Transportation does not play games with those that

are available.

Department of Parking, 7UDIĂ€F DQG 7UDQVSRUWDWLRQ Director Gary Graham offered some advice to incoming freshmen. ´7KH Ă€UVW WKLQJ WKH\ need to do is get a parking permit,â€? Graham said. “Once they have that permit, they should go online DQG Ă€JXUH RXW ZKDW ]RQHV they can and can’t park in, then plan around that. Just park between two white OLQHV LQ \RXU DVVLJQHG ]RQH and you’ll be good.â€?

Don’t park without a permit, don’t park in the wrong lot and don’t park in a metered spot without paying the machine.

Heed these warnings.

Graham said his department hands out between 200 and 300 parking tickets

and has about 10 cars towed during the average day during the fall or spring. Don’t buy into the delusional belief that “it won’t happen to me.â€? Everyone believes that until they walk outside WR Ă€QG DQ HPSW\ VSRW ZKHUH their car used to be.

The best way to avoid this hassle is to simply not park on campus. If possible to do so, walking to class or riding on the Tiger Trails bus are convenient alternatives to rolling the dice on parking.

Another veteran parkLQJ WLS LI \RX ÀQG DQ RSHQ VSRW LQ D OHJDO ]RQH WDNH LW When you get greedy looking for that premium spot on campus, you end up with nothing.

Parking in the wrong spot can be just as costly off-campus.

If an apartment complex has visitor parking available, use it. Just about every complex has a

towing company on retainer to monitor their lots for visitors who park in reserved residential parking spots.

Whether it is Guy’s Towing, DTS Towing or God forbid — the dreaded Riverside Towing, they will tow you without warning.

If that wasn’t bad enough, you must hitch a ride to WKHLU RIÀFH LQ WKH PLGGOH RI nowhere and pay through the nose to retrieve your vehicle.

There’s a lot of places where you can get away with parking wherever you FDQ ÀQG D VSRW EXW %DWRQ Rouge is not one of them.

Just learn and follow the rules, and everything will work out OK. Don’t test the meter maids and tow truck drivers in this town; you’ll lose.

Contact James Moran at jmoran@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @James_Moran92

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Commuter lots all over campus, including this one by the bronze tiger, have had very limited parking, even in later hours of the day.

Commuters have been frustrated at the lack of available parking.

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Tigerland bars ideal for freshmen Whether parents like it or not, freshman students will inevitably make the maiden voyage down to the mecca of college bars that is Tigerland.

Tigerland offers À YH GLIIHUHQW bars, all of which offer various drink TREY LABAT specials each night of the Staff Writer week. Don’t make the mistake of going to the wrong bar on the wrong night.

MONDAY: REGGIE’S 50-CENT SHOT NIGHT It’s the most cost-effective night of the week to go out with a large group and have a good time.

TUESDAY: JL’S DOLLAR WINE NIGHT

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JL’s Place on Bob Pettit Boulevard is one of many bars in Tigerland.

Pretty much the only night that JL’s is worth going to.

Added bonus: wherever there is wine, there will be girls.

WEDNESDAY: MELLOW MUSHROOM’S KARAOKE NIGHT Who doesn’t love a chance to embarrass

themselves in front of their friends?

THURSDAY: FREE COVER AT REGGIE’S Thursday night is the biggest night to go out during the week. Almost every week, Reggie’s will be packed from

wall to wall on Thursday night.

FRIDAY: FREE DRINKS AT FRED’S AND REGGIE’S There is drinks, and they are free. No explanation needed — just remember to tip your bartenders.

SATURDAY: GAME DAY Every bar in Tigerland is packed following football games, especially nighttime games. Pick a number out of a hat and have a good time.

SUNDAY: DAY OF REST AND SAINTS FOOTBALL Everyone, including nonfreshman, need rest after game days, so stay in, avoid light and enjoy some more football.

Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TreyLabat_TDR

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[Top, middle] The outsides of dorms like Annie Boyd Hall require card swipes to get in. [Bottom] Students study in a dorm room in Annie Boyd.

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LIFE

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[Top, middle] Blake Hall houses some of the larger dorms on the University’s campus. [Bottom] Mass communication student Lizzie Barry unpacks her things in Jackson Hall.

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TECHNOLOGY

Website features info on professors Trey Labat

teaching the course. With the breakdown of grades via bar graphs, students can easily One of the best-kept determine which professors secrets about the freshman are easier than others.

Other sites like koofers. college experience is the realization that freshman class- com or noteswap.com proes, no matter the major, are vide even more help to students. On Koofers, students all the same.

General education are able to access notes from classes are all the courses past semesters, practice tests the state has deemed “nec- and even notecard banks essary� for every student to past students have created take. Whether it’s an English in order to better prepare for major required to take two the classes they have looked semesters of math, or an en- into. Koofers also provides a gineering major required to professor rating system for take two semesters of art, no LSU, but the ratings aren’t as one can escape the perils of comprehensive as the ones on UniversityTools. freshman gen-ed classes. “I don’t think the sites One thing that can soften the blow to a fresh- necessarily boost GPAs,� man’s GPA is the website said Kindra Schultz, a recent graduate from Southeastern UniversityTools.com.

Even the most arduous University. “But it does give of freshman classes can be students a better idea of what made better by choosing the to expect from certain teachers as far as teachright professor, and that’s what the web- ‘... [Professor ing style and helpfulness.� site aims to do.

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Kindra Schultz them made. Having According to Southeastern University a solid GPA during freshman year goes UniversityTools. graduate a long way into encom, the website has more than 23,000 re- suring success throughout a views for more than 2,700 college career. “In some cases it can professors and 1,200 coursgive the student an idea es.

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FOOD

Fat Cow offers unique burgers Ryan Rogers

with iPads. Hosford said a major problem with most restaurants today is that they When in search of a tend to lag behind when it quality burger, students can comes to new technology. He balance a fast-food burger admits that it was a risk usMRLQW DQG D ÀQH GLQLQJ VLW ing the iPad, but in the end, down experience at Fat Cow it paid off.

One of the most useful Burgers & Salads on Highaspects of the iPads is that land Road.

Fat Cow, a restaurant all of the data is stored in the that has a unique take on cloud. This means Hosford the typical burger joint, was can go on his mobile device founded in 2011 by owner and change prices any time Doug Hosford and a few of anywhere.

But don’t let the name his friends.

Fat Cow makes every- fool you. Fat Cow offers a thing in house except for the wide variety of salads and buns, which are shipped from serves salmon, chicken breast and portabella mushroom as Texas.

It is one of the few burg- alternatives to beef.

An interesting item er places that cooks its patties using natural charcoal on the menu is The Hunas opposed to electric or gas dred Dollar Burger, which stoves. No preservatives are is topped with foie gras, used in the food, and all of balsamic vinegar, arugula, the meat is ground fresh ev- parmesan cheese and trufĂ H DLROL +RVIRUG VDLG WKH eryday.

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Physics student Chad Thompson (right) grabs some of pharmacy student George James’s (left) parmesan and duck fries Sept. 5, 2011, at Fat Cow.

because “it was something different and special.�

7KH ÀUVW WKLQJ WKDW FDPH to mind when walking into Fat Cow is the possibility of expanding to other locations yet.

Hosford said his next restaurant will also be in Baton Rouge, but he plans to take his time when expanding to ensure that the restaurant continues to produce a quality product.

The owners originally planned to name the restaurant Fat Ox — which would be accompanied by a rustic cabin theme — and although they also considered Fat Cow, it wasn’t until the Fat Cow logo was created that the restaurant would be known by that name. The

logo designer also won an advertising award for the logo.

While the name “Fat Cowâ€? may not seem appealLQJ DW Ă€UVW +RVIRUG VDLG WKH humor behind its name represents the personality of the restaurant itself. Fat Cow is known by customers to have “an irreverent sense of humor,â€? which is another reason why the name stuck.

Other examples of their humor can be found on their website, including the front page that advises customers to “refrain from licking the screen.�

Contact Ryan Rogers at rrogers@lsureveille.com

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Be flexible, open to different majors Choosing your major can be a daunting experience as a freshman. We are basically thrust into this new world and asked at age 18 what we want our career to be and how we would TYLER NUNEZ like to be Contributing Writer d e f i n e d during our time in college.

The cold hard truth is many 18-year-old students are not ready to make that kind of commitment to a career, even if they think they are.

I know I was not. I simply did not have the knowledge or experience to make an informed decision on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

Two years, four majors and two universities into my collegiate career, I still had no idea what I wanted to do.

The following is a list of lesson I learned from these experiences, and some helpful hints that will hopefully help you when choosing your major.

Changing your mind is a part of the natural process of making such an important decision. It does not mean you wasted any time.

In all likelihood I will QHYHU ÀQG D SUDFWLFDO XVH for all of those calculus, engineering, physics, biology and organic chemistry FRXUVHV , WRRN LQ P\ ÀUVW two years.

But I learned a lot of intangibles in these classes that a textbook simply cannot teach you, including how to take notes, how to work with a group and how to study.

Keep an open mind.

Before I entered the college world, I kept my options limited to “important� professions, like engineering and medicine.

As a result, I was somewhat lost when I realized neither these options was the path for me, and I was forced to rethink the way I approached my future career.

I found that I was doing myself a disservice by limiting my choices when I have access to a seemingly LQÀQLWH DPRXQW RI RSWLRQV Be open to different Changing majors is classes and new experiencnormal. es, even if they seem uninIt is easy to look around teresting on the surface. A at your friends and feel like couple of them may surprise WKH\ KDYH LW DOO ÀJXUHG RXW , you. can assure you than many of Utilize the Golden Circle. them do not.

In fact, according reWhile I was trying to search conducted by Penn State, up to 50 percent of choose a new major, I uncollege students change wittingly implemented a their majors after they de- concept I would later learn clare, and up to 80 percent was created by author Siof freshmen — including mon Sinek called “the goldthose who have declared a en circle.�

The basic principle bemajor — at the very least question what they really hind the golden circle is that when someone decide to want to major in.

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Franklin & Marshall College student Salma Akhter, right, talks in a career advising session with Kathleen Babb, senior student development advisor in the college’s Office of Student and Post-Graduate Development.

Advisors like these can help students change his or her major.

perform an action, they answer three basic questions: what, how and why?

Most people have a tendency to answer these questions in the order above.

For example, when I FKRVH P\ ÀUVW PDMRU , FKRVH engineering. I was going to take all the classes necessary to pass these classes, because I wanted to be successful.

As you can see, none of these answers seem particularly inspired.

The key is to the golden circle is to answer these questions in the opposite order: why, how then what?

Using this method, I chose my current career path, and my thought process looked more like this: “I love sports, and writing has always been an unexplored interest of mine, so my dream would be to combine these two passions into a career. I will do this

by learning as much as I can about the subject and writing articles for as many people as I can get to read them, therefore I will pursue a career in sports journalism.�

Since adopting this mindset, college has been a far more enjoyable and fulÀOOLQJ H[SHULHQFH You are going to hit some bumps in the road to graduation, and it may take \RX D ZKLOH WR ÀQG \RXU footing.

But take it from someone with experience: If you ZRUN KDUG DQG ÀQG VRPHthing you love doing, school becomes more tolerable, studying becomes easier and you will be walking across the stage to receive your diploma before you know it.

Contact Tyler Nunez at tnunez@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TNunez_5

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Study spots available on campus Ah, freshman year: all the experiences are new, the football games are more intense and the exams are a tad PRUH GLIĂ€cult.

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So here are a couple of spots on campus you might want to pay attention to when you’re preparing for your ÀUVW ZDYH RI H[DPV UPPER FLOORS OF MIDDLETON LIBRARY At some point, I’m sure one of your orientation leaders led your group of wide-eyed, excited incoming freshmen through the Quad. It’s a serene area, and everything from a fountain to a mini-auditorium can be found there. At the front of the Quad sits the one place many students call home on weeknights.

The Middleton Library is a staple for any and every

skeleton. That’s right — a dinosaur skeleton.

Actually, an Allosaurus skeleton to be exact.

But let’s be realistic, who doesn’t want to study next to that?

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Students cram for an exam in Middleton Library during the week students refer to as “dead week.� Many professors assign projects to be completed or hold exams during dead week.

student looking to better his or her grades. It almost has everything a student would need: a coffee shop, computer labs, a coffee shop, rows of books, a coffee shop and plenty of cubicles and outlets to plug in electronics. Oh, and did I mention a coffee shop?

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Oh, and you can bring your coffee up there, so that’s

always convenient.

HOWE-RUSSELL ATRIUM If your orientation leader hasn’t taken you toward the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, then I suggest taking a side-trip at one point or another — especially for those students interested in geology, archaeology or anything of the sort.

The complex can be found just south of the Quad, and within its walls lays a number of different discoveries, maps, stones and tools.

But the true gem of Howe-Russell is in its atrium.

Howe-Russell’s atrium is a single room that becomes sun-bathed during the day, and it is a visually relaxing area to take in a good textbook. There are multiple tables and chairs laid out throughout the room, and silence is always encouraged. Take one look toward the ceiling, and a PDJQLÀFHQW IDQ SURYLGHV a peaceful setting for the room.

Most importantly, though, is the dinosaur

BARNES & NOBLE, STARBUCKS This past year, the University campus underwent a slight change.

The Barnes & Noble bookstore, which was formerly located in the Student Union, moved across the street, and it now stands as its own massive, visually appealing structure.

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Contact Lawrence Barreca at lbarreca@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca

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