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of campus east of ISB where the Bay Tree Bookstore and Graduate Student
Commons are located. Incidentally, ID card services are located adjacent to the
bookstore.
Cashier, Registrar, etc.
The campus cashier registrar and financial aid offices are all located in Hahn
Student Services, sort of between the bookstore and McHenry Library.
Libraries
It is surprising how little we need to use the libraries for work, but you may be
curious so here goes. The main university library is McHenry, located
south/southeast of ISB along a couple of footpaths. You can buy a personal
copy card there, among other things. The Science Library, more likely to be of
use, is north of Nat. Sci II. We think you can buy copy cards there too.
Mail
Outgoing campus mail and US mail can be dropped in the appropriate mailbags in
the Department/Lick mailroom, ISB 260. There is a US Post Office located in
Baskin Engineering, on its west side, lowest floor.
Restaurants and coffee carts
Aside from a restaurant in the Grad Commons building, there is also a restaurant
in Kresge (whose name is always changing); a co-op at Kresge that sometimes
sells good food; a taqueria in Merrill; a coffee shop in Cowell.
There are coffee carts/stands all over campus: in the Theater Arts Center; in
Sinsheimer; in Earth & Marine Sciences; and probably more. The "lunch lady"
brings food to the 2 floor lobby of ISB every weekday, check around for the
time.
4.2 Structure
The University is organized by Divisions and Colleges. The undergraduate
program revolves around the residential colleges (Kresge, College Eight, Porter,
etc.), while academia for undergrads and grads involves the divisions. For
instance, our department is, as you might expect, a part of the Division of
Physical and Biological Sciences. If you are ever asked what college you belong
to (on a form or something), just say you are a grad student. This is confusing
because really, we have no college, but there is a Graduate Division.
So for your purposes, the only relevant levels in the hierarchy are the Physical
and Biological Sciences Division, through which you get paid when you TA
(among other things), and the Graduate Division, which sets things like the
deadlines for submitting one's PhD materials, thesis guidelines, etc.
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