So this our Talley Student Union, it's the heart of campus for us here at NC State, and
if you are ever here you will see tons of students walking around and interacting with
each other studying.
It is also a really great place to come and eat lots of different cool foods.
One of my favorite places we have here is One Earth, that has a rotating menu where
you can go and check out different foods from around the world every single week.
Apart from that, we have our bookstore which is right behind me actually.
The top floor is everything you need NC State related so you can go and get sweatshirts
or shirts, whatever you may need you can probably find it.
Downstairs below the apparel is all of our books.
So as a student I order my books through NC State and I pick them up right downstairs.
It is really conveinent and it is an awesome thing for us.
Upstairs there are a few of our different student centers.
The GLBT center, the multicultural student affairs, as well as our women’s center.
Those are great places for students to go meet with faculty, other students, that share
similar interests and enjoy that space.
As well as some cool things like Stewart theatre.
I am in an acapella group here on campus and we always have a performance in Stewart Theatre
at the end of every semester and that is a really enjoyable thing for me.
I get back in touch with my arts roots.
That is Talley.
This is Price Music Center.
This is one of our really cool resources on campus because it is where students can go
and get back in touch with their arts side.
As I said earlier, I am in an acapella group so this is where we rehearse twice a week.
You can also go into different study rooms and practice instruments or just hang out
and study.
It is home to our Choral groups as well as our marching band.
It is a really awesome resource for students.
Here at state we do not offer any music majors but we do have music minors so we recognize
that some students, although it might not be a big part of their lives, they can still
come in they can learn music they can separate themselves from their academics and use this
as an awesome resource.
Right across from the price music center is our Carmichael Complex.
It is a really really awesome gymnasium that has everything you could ever imagine.
There are multiple swimming pools, tennis courts, there is a desk where you can go and
check out kayaks and canoes, literally anything you could probably imagine you can check out
here.
So I highly recommend checking that out if you are ever on campus.
One really cool thing about State is that we do have to take multiple 2 gym classes.
I am currently enrolled in triatholan, that is a really fun one.
We have some that range from triathalon to swimming to step aerobics, anything you can
imagine you can probably do.
It is a awesome resource so definitely check that out.
So right behind me is Holmes hall, this is a really important building on campus because
it is actually home to all of our advisors for our exploratory studies college.
Basically what that it is that first year students can come in undecided, they pick
a few majors that they are interested in and then they work really closely with their advisors
to plan a lot of their general education classes early.
They take those and they can decide what they want to do a little bit later in college.
It is really cool because they still graduate on time it just gives them that opportunity
to explore a little bit more and figure out what they want to do.
Right across from Holmes hall is actually where all the students live.
So they can walk right outside, across the street, and meet with their advisors.
A couple other buildings that are really close to Holmes hall are the student health center
and Witherspoon.
Within the student health center is the bottom floor which has our pharmacy, a shot clinic
for allergies, it has dental as well as regular checkups.
We can do basically everything but surgery which is a good thing.
Upstairs is our counseling center, that is an awesome resource because here at State
I have learned that we are trying to change the stigma that counseling is a bad thing.
A lot of my friends have went in for group counseling or solo counseling because we recognize
that college can be stressful and that is a great resource to use.
Within Witherspoon, we like to call it our lecture hall by day and our movie theater
by night.
You can go in and swipe your student ID and actually watch a free movie, get some popcorn
and hangout.
I have done that a few times personally a few times just to unwind after a long week.
As well as upstairs in that building is all of our student media, so if you are interested
in writing for the newspapers or DJ'ing for our local radio station, you can do that and
those are paid positions.
So definitely have that on your radar.
So this is actually my favorite stop on the tour because we are talking about housing
which was probably the most exciting thing for me figuring out where I am going to live,
who I am going to be around.
So first I wanna start with a few buildings that are behind me.
Those are Tucker and Owen, those are hall style, so basically what that means is that
there are rooms on each side of the hallway and at the end of the hallway are all of the
accommodations like showers and stalls.
I never lived hall style but I know my friends that did really loved it and enjoyed the experience,
and they never had to wait on showers or anything because that is a common misconception.
For me personally, I lived in Bowen residence hall which is one of our tri-towers.
It is actually right around this area as well, and it is suite style.
So essentially what that means is that it is a miniature hallway, there were 5 rooms
within that hallway, so there were 10 guys total and we shared a bathroom with 2 stalls
and 2 showers.
I really enjoyed that experience because I actually got really close with the guys that
lived in my suite with me and in addition to that if you have any questions about how
clean the bathroom was, we have a cleaning staff that comes into both hall style and
suite style and they clean our bathrooms for us.
I absolutely love them and they did a great job and we were really really appreciative
of that.
Apart from residence halls and living, I wanted to talk a little about our villages.
I was in a village for my first 2 years, I came back as a mentor my sophomore year, it
weas the impact leadership village but I think we have a total of about 15 villages, you
can go online and apply to be in those.
Basically it is a collection of students that share similar interests whether it is major
specific or not.
Mine focused on community outreach and leadership where some of them focus on sustainability,
some are engineering, we have an engineering village, we have an women in engineering and
stem, there are all kinds of really cool opportunities.
It helped me step out of my comfort zone and build really cool relationships, so definitely
check that out.
This is a thing that we created a long time ago so that students could come and express
themselves.
If you ever come to campus you'll see that for the most part it is graffiti free except
for this one tunnel.
You can come in and spray paint anything you could imagine.
So if you're celebrating someone’s birthday, campaigning for student government, or you
just wanna advertise for a club or organization, you can come in here, buy a can of spray paint,
and put up whatever you like.
I came out here a lot of times with my friends and I spray painted to advertise for some
stuff we were having for the acapella group or the village that I was in and I am really
thankful for something like this so we can express ourselves freely.
Currently standing in the brickyard which is the hustle and bustle of North Campus its
where a lot of cool things happen like tabling, selling stuff for differing clubs and organizations,
one of my favorites I like to highlight is Shack-A-Thon.
Students partner with Habitat for Humanity, they actually build little shacks here on
the brickyard and they raise money all week to give back to Habitat for Humanity to fund
a house here in the Wake community.
In addition to that, we have the atrium which is a food court style eating place here which
has all kinds of different places especially my favorite is the Chic-Fil-A, I go there
all the time.
I am not tired of it yet so I am just gunna keep doing it.
The last thing I want to mention is D.H. Hill Library.
It is one of the two main libraries that we have here.
It is 9 floors, there are different study rooms where you can go in a group a study,
there is a maker space with 3d printers, and there are recording students.
Literally anything you need you can find there.
This next stop is Hillsborough street.
It is a street that runs across the backside of all of main campus, it is a really cool
place for students to go.
There are tons of eateries and shops where you can hang out on the weekends or during
the weekday.
As you may see behind me, there is a target.
This actually opened up after my first year here at State and I was really excited about
that.
I never drive if I don't have to, so I can actually walk from my apartment down Hillsborough
and go shop for whatever I need.
Every year we have this huge event called pack-a-palooza, that is the intro to our wolfpack
welcome week.
We actually shut down all of Hillsborough street, we bring out different clubs and organizations
and then we have a concert at the bell tower.
There have been some really awesome bands the past few years so I was fortunate to get
to see some of those.
Another thing I wanted to mention about Hillsborough street is that you will see a lot of our wolf
line buses going down the street.
Our bus system works all around campus, main campus, and centennial.
It is really easy to use, you can actually download an app, you can find your bus routes
and you can take them wherever you need to go between this campus and centennial.
I am currently standing at the 1911 building which is at the top of our Court of North
Carolina.
It is one of our many green spaces here on campus, it is one of my favorites to go outside
hangout with my friends, throw some frisbee, and relax after a long week.
In addition to that, anytime we get a big snow it is awesome for snowball fights.
This area is home to our college of humanities and social sciences, so if you are interested
in English, History, or Education, this is a great spot for you.
In addition to that, it houses our Paige Hall, which has all of our advisors for Engineering.
So if you are a first year student in engineering you can always walk from your residence hall
to meet with your advisor rather than meeting with you advisor.
If you are ever on the Court of Carolina you can actually see our bell tower which is a
very famous symbol of NC State.
We often light it red any time we have a big victory in athletics or we have a new professor,
get a grant, or something like that.
The bell tower is an awesome place to hangout, celebrate big victories, and is a really awesome
symbol for the university.
I am currently standing outside of SAS hall which is home to all of our different mathematics
courses.
Here at this stop we like to talk about academics.
A few of the things I want to highlight, first being our academic advisors.
Each student is given an advisor who they have to work with to plan their classes, we
actually have to meet with our advisors each semester to plan the next semester, before
we do that we meet with them and talk about our plan, how everything is going, so that
we stay on track.
In addition to that, all of our professors are required to have office hours.
This is a time where they sit in their offices and wait for students to come meet with them,
talk about old tests, homework, or just get to know them a little bit better.
I highly recommend going to meet with your professors, it is a great way to build relationships
and get any help you might need.
The last thing that I want to mention is that we have some large classes.
So my chemistry classes may be 250 to 300 people, but we have these things called problem
sessions or labs in which we go and work with the TA's, go through different problems, work
the old homework, which is something I am thankful for because it is a smaller class
setting.
I am currently standing at Reynolds Coliseum which is one of our most famous buildings
on campus.
It houses a lot of different sporting events, most notably our women’s basketball.
It is also home to the 1974 and 83 men’s national championships which we still love
to talk about because it's pretty exciting for us.
In addition to this building being an awesome place for different sporting events, it has
also had many really cool speakers such as Martin Luther King Jr. and a lot of different
presidential candidates.
If you are ever on campus feel free to walk through and see our different walk of champions
or our hall of fame for athletes.