Little Rutgers things I wish I knew earlier.

(maybe I was just silly as a first-year for not knowing all this...)

• You can put money on RU Express and pay guest price to eat at dining halls. You can also pay by cash or credit card, but it's way easier to pay with RU Express. It's 8.50 for breakfast, 11.50 for lunch, and 17.50 for dinner. For many meal plans, it's actually cheaper to pay guest entry for each meal than to have a plan.

• F and EE buses go around College Ave from SAC --> Student Center --> Scott Hall. LX, H, and A buses go around College Ave from Student Center --> Scott Hall --> SAC. You can take a bus from Scott Hall to SAC and vice versa.

• You can print to any Rutgers printer from your laptop by downloading the RU Wireless print driver (google it).

• On print release stations, you can select multiple jobs for printing at the same time. Select the first job and drag down at an angle; the rest of your jobs will also be selected. It's magical.

• If you become temporarily handicapped with a broken leg or something like that, you can arrange for a special bus to transport you. It's a bit of a pain but so is navigating Rutgers buses on crutches.

• Alexander Library's Imaging Center can bind documents with comb binding. Up to 200 pages, $5 per binding.

• Make an appointment with the Health Center online or via phone, or they'll refuse to see you. Even if you're extremely sick. Even if your leg is purple and swollen.

• Some B buses marked "B-He" stop at the Busch-Livingston Health Center near the Rutgers Business School building. These run around every hour.

• You can release all your print jobs at once by swiping up from below the list of jobs. It should highlight all of them. Make sure you swipe from down to up, not reverse, or it won't work.

• Use the Knight Mover whenever regular buses aren't running. You call them and tell them where on campus you are-- campus "areas" like Barnes and Noble, downtown George St., and Robert Wood Johnson also work. They'll drop you to any other place on campus, even places that buses don't stop at. If you live on campus, they'll drop you directly to your dorm.

• Rutgers offers personal training and massages for very cheap-- much cheaper than you'll find once you leave.

• You can rent a locker for free in Werblin for a semester and leave your stuff there. See the front desk.

• Once you send a document to a printer, you can release it from any printer on campus, except for the small printers in single classrooms.

• US citizens: you cannot vote in US government elections on campus unless you're registered to vote in this area. Piscataway residents will have a fairly easy time voting, because machines are put up on campus, but New Brunswick makes it harder. If you want to vote here, register early; if you want to vote in your home district, apply for an absentee ballot early and don't forget to mail it in.

• Registering your bike with RUPD makes it way easier to recover a stolen or lost bike.

• There are bike repair and air pump stations on every campus, near the Busch Campus Center, Livi Plaza bus stop, Douglass Campus Center, and Au Bon Pain.

• Most campus centers have microwaves so you can heat up your food.

• If you need special software for a class, like Maple or MatLab, you can access this from your laptop via ScarletApps (google it). You have to have enabled ScarletApps as a service from the NetID management page. It's slow, but it's better than nothing when labs are closed or you don't feel like going out.

• If you are a student, you should not be paying sales tax on food purchased on campus.

• Health Services offers STD testing. Don't be self-conscious-- they do it all the time and your health is more important.

• There's a bus that goes to NYC (Port Authority Bus Terminal) and tickets are around $17 round trip. It's cheaper than the $26 round trip train fare. You have to buy them from the SABO, in the bottom floor of the SAC.

• Douglass Library has a huge archive of audio for people (usually theater students) to learn different accents.

• Every food place on campus will gladly give you a free cup of water with your food.

• There are three "public safety building" stops and they're all different. The Rex and F buses stop at Public Safety while coming off of Rt. 18 towards Cook-Douglass; the EE buses stop in both directions on George St. (in front of the building and in front of the gas station).

• The computer lab in ARC has special Macs with all the latest video/photo/media editing software.

• If you're going from Cook-Douglass to Buell or Werblin, it's faster to take an F from College Hall to the SAC and then an H, instead of taking a REX B and walking.

• You can walk to Sears from Cook-Douglass by getting off at Henderson. It gets a bit dark at night, though.

• You can take the 810 NJ Transit bus to the Menlo Park Mall from the New Brunswick Train Station. Fare is $2.35, exact change only.

• In many cases on Busch and Cook-Douglass, it's faster to walk than to take a bus somewhere.

• You're not allowed to put resume paper in the vast majority of Rutgers printers. If you want nice resumes, print them off campus before career fairs.

• The Asian place in the Busch Campus Center has half price sushi near closing time.

• Not really a Rutgers thing, but if you go to a food place a lot (Subway, Wendy's, etc), you can buy discounted gift cards online and use those to pay. Also works for Barnes and Noble.

• There are free tutors at Rutgers Learning Centers. They also have many textbooks available (mainly those from major, popular courses like Gen Chem or Calc 151) and it's great to study there because you can get help if you need it.

• Everything you save onto a Rutgers computer is saved to that computer for 24 hours or the next time you log in to that computer. If you screw up and need to find a file, go back to that exact computer and look in the T drive.

• The Cook Cafe does not accept meal swipes after 6:00.

• Also not really a Rutgers thing, but double-decker NJ Transit trains have outlets in the center compartments, under the seats that are reserved for people with disabilities.

• Bus drivers are super cool and you should talk to them.

EDIT: Thanks for all the corrections! I'm editing them into the document.