WHAT’S Your Guide to Conn | 4 The Lingo | 6 Getting Here | 14 INSIDE What to Pack | 18 Your Key to Camel Life | 22 So Much to Do | 26 Explore the Region | 28 The Camel Ways | 34 What to Eat On Campus | 38 What to Eat Off Campus | 42 Academic Calendar | 46 Who Ya Gonna Call? (or Email?) | 48 Staying Safe | 52 Insider Map | Inside Back Cover Contents Your Guide to Conn | 4 The Lingo | 6 Getting Here | 14 What to Pack | 18 Your Key to Camel Life | 22 So Much to Do | 26 Explore the Region | 28 The Camel Ways | 34 What to Eat On Campus | 38 What to Eat Off Campus | 42 Academic Calendar | 46 Who Ya Gonna Call? (or Email?) | 48 Staying Safe | 52 Insider Map | Inside Back Cover YOUR GUIDE TO CONN WELCOME, CAMELS! OVER THE HUMP is your guide to all things Conn. In the following pages, you’ll find suggestions for items to bring to campus, places to eat, things to do and a whole lot more. You’ll also learn the lingo, so you’ll know what people mean when they say, “Hey! After my ConnCourse, I’m going to hit up Blue Camel and meet my PICA friends in the Arbo.” From your Camel Moment to the last time you ring the gong, you’ll discover new YOUR things about Conn every day. Over the Hump just gives you a head start. And to stay ahead of the game, here are a few important things to do: LOG IN TO YOUR CONN EMAIL ACCOUNT. Check your conncoll.edu account regularly for information you need to know, even before you arrive on campus. If you have trouble logging in, contact the IT Service Desk at 860-439-4357. COMPLETE THE CAMEL EXPERIENCE, an online program that prepares you for our in-person orientation, known as Welcome Weekend. The Camel Experience GUIDE includes your checklist of to-do items, including choosing your first-year seminar and completing your housing selection and health information forms. All students must complete the entire Camel Experience before arriving on campus. Learn more at newcamel.conncoll.edu. TO KEEP TABS ON US! LIKE facebook.com/connecticutcollege | FOLLOW @conncollege | READ conncoll.edu CONN WATCH youtube.com/connecticutcollege | CAPTURE @conncollege 5 THE LINGO: WALK LIKE A CAMEL ... TALK LIKE A CAMEL 360 One of several apartment residences BLUE CAMEL or “BLAMEL” Lorelei and on campus, located next to her trusty band of baristas serve up a Earth House. variety of specialty coffees and teas, along with soup, snacks and baked AC The Athletic Center (AC) comprises goods, at the Blue Camel Café. Located the fitness center, natatorium, arena, on the first floor of Shain Library, Blue field house and Silfen Track and Field. Camel doubles as a 24-hour study space It’s across the footbridge and down you can access with your Camel Card. the hill. Save some energy after your workout for the walk back to the CAMEL CARD main campus! Yeah, you’re gonna need this. AMMERMAN CENTER The short name Your Camel for the Ammeran Center for Arts & Card is your Technology, one of Conn’s five centers main student for interdisciplinary scholarship. identification; it gets you into buildings and holds ARBO The College’s 750-acre campus is Printing Funds, Dining Dollars and managed as an arboretum, but the 445 Camel Cash. Before you leave your acres located across Williams Street are room, remember: phone, key, Camel most commonly referred to as the Arbo. Card. They make PopSocket wallets. It’s an outside laboratory for the Just sayin’. sciences, a habitat for native plants and animals, a place for students to relax CAMEL CASH Money you can load onto with friends, and a park for the your Camel Card to make purchases on community. A walk around the pond is and off campus. a great study break! CAMEL EXPERIENCE An online program ARBOFEST A biannual music festival in you will complete before you arrive on the Arbo hosted by MOBROC. campus for the in-person orientation known as Welcome Weekend. ARC Need a tutor? Want help with a project or presentation? Just need CAMEL RIDE BY LYFT A reliable local someone to tell you, “You can do it”? ride when you need one! You’ll receive Located in Shain Library, the Academic four free rides per month to and from Resource Center (ARC) is for you. specific locations that are accessible Because it’s for everybody. See you soon. through your personal Lyft app. THE BARN A designated rehearsal space CAMELWEB The College’s intranet, a for student private network bands, located just for between Cro and members of the the Plex. See campus MOBROC (the community. entry, but also, Lots of info to catch a show). be found here. 7 CCSRE The Center for the Critical Study CONNCOURSE (Because we just can’t resist of Race and Ethnicity offers a certificate starting words with “Conn”—see the next program for students and serves as the two entries.) In this interdisciplinary class, hub for researching and teaching race which you will take during your first two and ethnicity across disciplines. years on campus, you will discover connections between your studies and THE CENTERS The centers are unique real-world issues. programs for interdisciplinary scholarship. The five centers—Ammerman, CONNECTIONS You are going to hear this CCSRE, CISLA, Goodwin-Niering and word A LOT! A Holleran—and Museum Studies curriculum unique all offer certificate programs that satisfy to Conn, Connections requirements. Connections will prepare you to solve CISLA (“sis-la”) The Toor Cummings the problems facing Center for International Studies and the an increasingly Liberal Arts is one of Conn’s centers for complex world. It’s interdisciplinary scholarship. Through its our reinvention of the liberal arts and your certificate program, you can ticket to a fulfilling life and career. internationalize any major. CONNQUEST Find your people! This COFFEE CLOSET This student-run online resource for student clubs and organization operates two locations: the organizations, accessible via CamelWeb, original café near the first-floor entrance of provides a wall to post messages, photo Cummings Arts Center, and the Walk-in galleries, events, member lists and more. Coffee Closet on the first floor of Harkness House. Grab a latte on your way to class, COUNSELING AND HEALTH SERVICES enjoy a cup of joe (do people still call We got ’em. Located in Warnshuis Student it that?) with a friend or power up Health Center. before practice. CRO Officially “The College Center at COFFEE GROUNDS A student-run café in Crozier-Williams” (but seriously, no one Katharine Blunt House (see KB) serving really calls it that), Cro is the student bagels, pastries, and gourmet coffees and center and home to the Oasis Snack teas, and featuring student art and Shop, Humphrey’s, Cro’s Nest, Cro-Pit, entertainment. Try the cold brew. It’s good. Bookshop, Post Office, SGA, Camel Card office, the Holleran Center, The THE COLLEGE VOICE Extra! Extra! Read College Voice, and two large meeting all about the latest Conn news in this rooms, the 1941 Room and the 1962 student-run campus newspaper. New Room. Many student clubs meet in Cro, writers, and most offices related to student life can photographers and be found here, too. The third floor is home designers are to the Dance Department and Myers always welcome to Dance Studio. attend meetings. DIEI The Office of the Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, located in Unity House, is responsible for integrating equity and inclusion in every aspect of the educational, residential and professional life of the College. 8 EARTH HOUSE A house in north campus FLOOR GOVERNOR While you might be where all residents commit to eco-friendly picturing the Mayor of Linoleum or Titan living and a focal point for green activities of Tile, the floor governor is actually a on campus. member of the residential living staff who helps develop and coordinate social and ECLIPSE A Connecticut College tradition educational programming in the dedicated to celebrating and residence houses. acknowledging all races and ethnicities through artistic expression including FLORALIA This annual outdoor spring dance, music, spoken word and fashion. concert is one of the most popular events Always uber-impressive—you’ll want to of the year. Held in early May, Floralia put this one on your calendar. features live music, attractions, dancing and more. It’s not unheard of to begin THE EXPERIENCE A blog written by planning outfits and scouting seating students for students (and prospective locations weeks in advance. students). It’s chock-full of tips, tricks and insight. Check it out at conncoll.edu/ FLYING CAMEL This is the name of the the-experience/. airport shuttle service (Get it? Flying Camel? Since you FACILITIES These are the people who fix are a Camel now? things. If something’s not working, let On your way to the them know. Submit a work request on airport?) that the CamelWeb. College offers in partnership with a FALL WEEKEND We’d call it Homecoming local transportation if we had a football team, but we don’t. company. Prior to Don’t worry, we make up for it with an and following all breaks—Thanksgiving, awesome, jam-packed weekend to show winter, spring and summer—you can catch your family everything you love about this shuttle for a discounted fare to and Conn. Catch a soccer game on Tempel from T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island Green, stock up on swag at Harvestfest and and JFK Airport in New York.