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Shop ‘til you drop, Behrend style
Welcome to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. If you’re new here then thanks for choosing us, if you’re returning thanks for coming back and
not going to State College. Either way you’ll probably need some supplier So heres a list of places close to campus to get things for class and life in
general.
On Campus
To start off, the closest place to get items you might need for classes is the Bookstore. It’s located in the lower level of the Reed Union building right
at the end of the stairs coming from Bruno’s. The Bookstore is the easiest wa\ to get the books you need for class, with tags labeling each class’s books.
They also make sure to have the right editions and they try to have them in stock at all times. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that since the
bookstore is technically a Barnes and Noble College Bookseller, you always can use Barnes and Noble Gift Cards. So when you go to Giant Eagle to
buy your groceries and earn those fuel perks, you can earn even more by getting gift cards for when you buy your books.
Buffalo
Well, for those of you with a car or are friendly with someone who has one. you can head off campus for supplies. Traditionally Wal-mart has been
on the top of student's lists of places to stop and shop. With their low prices on food and such, they can help you save every penny you get from mom
and dad. The closest one is located on Buffalo Road. To get there from campus, head out the main entrance (Jordan Rd) and head straight across the
road. You’ll have to be careful you don’t drive up the wrong road. Keep heading on that road until you come to Reese Road, then take a rightt. Keep
a look out for Hannon Road, that will be a left turn. After that will be the famous Buffalo Road, take a right and keep going until you see the Walmart.
it will be on your right.
Millcreek
If you want a bit more diversity in your shopping, there’s a nice little place a short drive away. It's call the Millcreek Mall, and it’s really the only
shopping center in Erie. The Millcreek Mall, has around 175 stores in its complex, not to mention a movie theatre, with cheap tickets. The Millcreek
Mall is great if you need to find someting that the stores on Buffalo Road don’t carry. Getting there is easy, provided your car can handle highway
speeds and 1-90 is not closed due to snow or some snow-related accident.
Leave campus and head towards 1-90, basically a right turn out of campus. Once you get there, head west, try not to get run over by the semi-trucks.
You’ll reach exit 24 - get off there, stay in the left lane. There’s right turn on red but it’s short light. Keep heading straight on Peach Street, you’ll see
a lot of restaurants and other places, a Walmart, a Circuit City, a Home Depot and a Best Buy; once you pass Best Buy keep a lookout, you're almost
there. Coming up soon is the Millcreek Mall, you can either turn and head towards 1-79 and head towards some of the other shops, or go straight. They
both work.
Succeeding in the art of
decorating the dorm
By Rachel Reeves
editor-in-chief
rcrSos7(s psu.edu
You spend weeks collecting supplies and decorations, hours pack
ing, sleepless nights worrying about what you might have forgotten.
Then on moving day, you load your car to the ceiling with everything
that you could possibly need for the next year. And when you final
ly open the door to your new, highly anticipated dorm room you find
... a prison cell.
That's ok.
Because with some careful thought, a little bit of time, and lots of
double-sided sticky tape, you can create a personalized, comfortable
space out of those bare brick walls. Here are some tips and tricks
from someone who learned the hard wav - trial and error.
Wall hangings
Posters, pictures, calendars, flags, mirrors, you name it. The best
way to get these to stay on your walls is with some double-sided
foam tape. Not masking tape, not duct tape, not double-sided scotch
tape. Not nails or hooks, double-sided foam tape. You can pick it up
pretty much anywhere, and although it's more expensive it's the only
thing that will safely see your hangings through the year.
Lighting
Fluorescent lights are miserable. Use your desk lamp for extra
light, or get a floor lamp if you have the room. Try to leave your win
dows open as much as possible - it’ll make your room feel bigger.
And white Christmas lights make a room more pleasant any time of
the year. Just tuck them up into the ceiling tiles to line the edges of
your room.
Windows
We don’t retrieve much light here in Erie, so take advantage of it
when you've got it. But since you'll have your blinds down at night,
curtains make that entire wall a lot easier on the eyes. Try for sheer
curtains so that you can still get some sun during the daylight hours,
and brighter colors will keep the claustrophobia away.
Bedding
Your bed is the most important piece of furniture, because in a
dorm room it's pretty much all you have. Pick your comforter wise
ly, and keep in mind that it’s going to go through hell. Stains will
accumulate like crazy from meals, coffee spills, and pen and high
lighter marks from studying. Having a spot stain treatment helps, like
the Tide To-Go Pen, and be prepared to wash it.
Desk
Your desk is what you end up seeing the most of, second only to
your bed. Compared to the amount of materials you need to store you
don’t have a lot of space to work with. Organizing sucks, but it’s
your best bet for making that half of your room functional and bear
able. Bookends are a wonderful invention that should be taken
advantage of. as long as you get heavy-duty ones. Textbooks are
heavy, in case you hadn’t noticed.
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life, so live it
If you’re new to the Penn State Behrend campus, here are
a few tips to make your transition to this new life a bit more
simplistic. Hitting topics like scheduling, picking the ideal
classes for your major based on what class you fall in, hav
ing one of the most memorable years of your youth, and so
on, I will try to make some sense of things through the eyes
of a Behrend student set to graduate in December.
Before my advice can even begin to assist you, there is
one thing I must say that exceeds the importance of any
thing else. If you are a freshman, and feel like the classes
you instinctively want to take due to personal interest are
never available, do not become upset. This happens on an
ordinary, annual basis. Your first year will consist of taking
the general educational classes that you thought you left
behind in high school. However, the most crucial part of
your first year in the collegiate world is to trudge through
these boringly, redundant classes that never seem to be what
you signed up for, while wondering if college truly may be
the biggest political scam ever. Okay, I’m half joking
because there will be some classes that you inevitably will
appreciate. I am simply giving you a preview of the reality
that will soon close upon this dying summer (side note: I
honestly hope that each and every one of your classes is
magnificent in every aspect, I’m just saying don’t plan on
it).
So if making it through your gen. ed. classes is the first
step to a successful start to college, what’s the second?
Having a good time. Hell, having a great time if you sepa
rate your good times in moderation. What I mean is, get
your work done, but please do not make your work your
life; work will be your life soon enough, no reason to rush.
Professors and advisors may disagree, but speaking from
the heart of a real student, it is essential to make friends, go
out, and have a good time. As obvious and broad as that
statement is, that's the best way to say it. If the library is
your home all day, then don’t make the study lounge your
home every night- you only live this once, live it like you
never want to lose it.
Wandering back to the subject of classes, if you feel that
you don’t belong in a particular lecture, or if there could be
a better professor for you, then talk to your advisor! There’s
no sense in sitting through a class that may actually be
wrong for you. I realize I said earlier that you will take
classes you may think are absolutely, absurdly, pointless,
but sometimes mistakes can be made and it can be a good
idea to sit down with your advisor and attempt to figure out
a better way. Signing up for a different class isn't as hard
as you think.
Here's an easy way- go to google.com and search for
“schedule of courses"- this will bring you to an easy sched
uling page (it’s the first hit). Next, fill in your campus loca
tion (Behrend) and the subject (i.e. Comm, Chem, Kines).
This will show you all of the courses offered in this area,
and from there you can just copy the course number and
place it under add/drop on elion.psu.edu. This may not be
the standard way of doing this, but it's how I do it and it
works fine.
I suppose my ultimate point is that this is the first year of
your entire life if you think about it in very immense and
real terms. It is crucial to make sure everything goes
smoothly or it could just be a frightening preview of what
could potentially be the rest of your life.
Be social. Ask questions. Talk to your professors. Talk
to your classmates. Talk to the people that live in your
dorm. Talk to the people that don’t live in your dorm. Join
groups on campus. Join groups off of campus. If you go
into this experience with the right state of mind, it will be
the most mind-opening, memorable adventure of your life.
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