East Carolina University Top Questions

I wish someone would have told me that you have to love football or at least understand the game to be a pirate. I still have no clue of the plays, calls, nor positions in a football game but I am an expert of acting like I know what is going on during the game. East Carolina University expresses school spirit like no other university and students make their love for the school known through the chants, cheers, and excitement during athletics. If you do not know anything about football I would learn before coming to ECU!

It would have been beneficial to have known about the difficulties with contacting advisers and the university scholarships.

I wish I had known the surrounding town was not cared for at all! The majority of the outlying town is neglected or pushed out by gentrification. Be sure to check out the town's local park website for soem awesome nature trails, hiking paths, and skating slopes. Talk to the financial aid office to make certain you are getting the most support possible. Try harder on the SAT so you will be admitted into the Honors College, it has extra funding, amazing student cultural field trips, and educational options that other students don't get. Absolutely must study abroad.

I wish i had known how to manage my time better. There are so many activities to do on campus and you have to balance that and school work. There are so many organizations to choose from that you just don't have time to try them all. It's my first year, by next year i'm sure i will figure out a way to fit one of those organizations into my schedule.

I wish I had known how much chlorine is in the tap water. There is much more chlorine in the water in my dormitory than what I'm used to at home. The water is hard on my hair an skin and makes the coffee, tea and soup I make taste bad. I finally had to invest in several packages of bottled water and a pitcher with a purifying filter system.

I did not know before coming to East Carolina University that the driving distance is 200 miles from home to campus.

I wish I had been a bit more acclaimated with the campus and the surrounding areas.

In high school, I never needed much help with work from my teachers. I wish I had known never be afraid to ask for help from a professor

About the meal plans more in depth. I wasted so much money last year, because I didn't know how to use it.

Incoming credits from high school allow freshman to have an advantage when registering for classes in the second semester. I did not have any incoming credits and was in the last group to register for classes. This is very important and held me back from getting the classes I needed my second semester creating a cascade effect that went through my entire college career.