Terms to Know

Office Hours. During office hours, your professors will be in their office, waiting (and hoping) for students to ask questions, seek help, or discuss course material or grades. Most of your professors are available for appointments outside of office hours, but their post office hours are set aside specifically for individual student work and conferences.

Add/Drop. If you have not already acquainted yourself with the policies in your Miami Bulletin, you should do so. If you need to make changes to your schedule, you can only do so within a certain time period.

Force/Add. If a class is full, a professor sometimes has the ability to add additional students to the class, depending on the physical size of the classroom and the course curriculum. You have to get permission from the instructor to add a class that is closed.

Academic Probation. Students who do not earn a GPA of 2.0 (C average) during their first semester will be put on academic probation. Students then have one semester to improve their grades. If they do not earn a GPA over 2.0, they will be academically dismissed for a minimum period of time. In my experience, students on academic probation are usually students who miss class, fail to turn in assignments, choose not to study, and/or refuse to take their course work or themselves seriously.