STUDENT RELATED INFORMATION
AUXILIARY SERVICES
The Division of Auxiliary Services strives to enhance the quality of student life by delivering a variety of essential goods and services with an emphasis on creativity, innovation, and customer service. All seven departments may be accessed at www.ImportantStuff.gatech.edu.
Student Housing is a residential campus community consisting of 40 undergraduate and graduate residence halls with 8,154 beds. Housing also offers 394 family housing apartments. Undergraduate and graduate residence halls range from double occupancy rooms with community baths to single bedrooms in apartments with shared kitchens and bathrooms. All rooms have local phone service, high speed and wireless Internet, web access and cable television with the most comprehensive line-up of networks on any campus television system in the world. Residential fitness centers and laundry rooms with washers and dryers that give machine availability notification through the Internet are part of Georgia Tech Housing. Freshman Experience program helps incoming freshmen get the most from their Georgia Tech education experience. Residence Hall Association gives residents representation, leadership and promotes social, academic, and recreational activities.
Stamps Health Services, located at 740 Ferst Drive, is a two-story ambulatory care center with facilities for outpatient medical treatment and health education for eligible students and spouses. Hours are M-F 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. The staff consists of six primary care physicians, two psychiatrist, two nurse practitioners, registered nurses, nursing and medical assistants, a dentist, dental hygienist, pharmacists, health educators, and laboratory and radiology technologists. Specialty clinics include Dentistry, Gynecology, Psychiatry and Nutrition. The student health fee includes unlimited visits to the Primary Care Clinic and Women's Clinics, some medications, some laboratory testing, psychiatry assessment, limited psychiatrist visits per semester, consultations with health educators and flu shots. An annual refractive eye exam is included at campus optical facilities for a small co-pay. Four categories of over the counter medicines are available and limited to one per semester per category. Additional products and services ae available at reasonable costs. A supplemental health insurance plan, which covers referrals, hospitalizations and other costs, is available for all students. Students may make and cancel appointments online.
GT Dining is truly “Engineered to Your Taste!” Two award-winning dining halls on either side of campus have made-to-order items, a full-service bakery and much more in an “all you care to eat” atmosphere. Some of the national brand restaurants and local favorites on campus are Chick-fil-A, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, and Freshens Smoothies. Other campus favorites are Pandini's (made-to-order pizza) and Jackets featuring WOW Cafe & Wingery, both in the Student Center Commons. The Student Center Food Court includes Rosita's Cantina, Far East Fusion, Ms. Ruthie's Deli, Essential Eats and The Cart. Food can be found across campus at Jazzman's Cafe in the Library, Freshens at H2O Cafe in the Campus Recreation Center and the Quad Cafe with Einstein Bros. Bagels and a Seattle's Best Coffee at the Biotechnology Campus. Convenience stores, WestSide and EastSide markets, and Ferst Place, a full service restaurant, round out campus dining offerings. Meal plans that are "engineered" to provide quality, variety and flexibility are open to all students.
The Student Center and Stamps Student Center Commons have facilities, services, and programs with a complete range of social, artistic, cultural, & recreational programs. Located in the center of campus, it offers 16 meeting rooms, that seat 12 to 900, a full-service post office, information desk, automatic teller machines, craft center, theater, recreation area, music listening room, box office, computer cluster, student government office, student involvement center, WREK Radio, College Optical Express, Hair Cuttery, Burdell's Store, the BuzzCard Center, and several GT Dining food venues. Students may join Student Center Programs Council online for committees like arts, concerts, festival, homecoming, movies, options, public relations, special events and web. The Student Center also oversees Technology Square Retail, e.g., Tin Drum Asia Café, Ribs n' Blues, St. Charles Deli, Ray's/Cedars Mediterranean, Great Clips, Nail Talk & Tan, Lexington Chocolatier.
Barnes & Noble @ Georgia Tech, located at 48 5th Street in Technology Square, is a 43,000 square-foot bookstore dedicated to fulfilling the educational needs of students, faculty, and staff. The bookstore supplies textbooks and general office supplies and is the primary source for technical reference books in the state. Carrying the largest inventory of used textbooks adopted for Georgia Tech courses in the area, the bookstore also has a Technology Center with more than 17,000 DVDs and CDs and sells computers, peripherals, software and the latest in consumer telecommunications technology. Compliant with the Georgia Tech mandatory laptop requirement, the Technology Center offers links on the bookstore website: www.shopgatech.edu for the three approved vendors, Apple, Dell & Lenovo. Students may browse selections, request a quote online and then contact the Technology Center at 404-894-2377 to complete the purchase. Including a full-service, 65-seat Starbucks cafe', the bookstore also has an 80,000-title selection of general reading materials.
Parking & Transportation operates more than 13,000 parking spaces in several surface lots and 11 parking decks. Visitor parking is available in six visitor lots and metered spaces located across campus. When campus is in normal operation, the Tech Trolley provides transportation to and from campus, Technology Square, and the midtown MARTA station; the Stinger Shuttle and Stingerette Escort/Paratransit Service provides transportation to all campus areas. The Stingerette Escort Service runs evenings and weekends from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. The Paratransit Service provides transportation weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. for anyone requiring assistance due to permanent or temporary mobility impairments. The Zipcar car-sharing program and SmartPark, a discounted, pay-as-you-go parking program (for commuter students, part-time faculty/staff, and public transportation riders), are available to those occasionally needing cars on campus.
The BuzzCard Center is the all-campus card center located in the Student Center Commons. The BuzzCard Center administers and supports the all-campus card system, BuzzCard production, meal plan administration, and GTID# request processing. The BuzzCard is the Georgia Tech identification card and provides access to a variety of campus-wide services and systems such as meal plans, access to athletic events, vending, bookstore and restaurants. The BuzzCard is also used as a personal on-campus debit card. By placing money on the BuzzCard either at the BuzzCard Center, Value Transfer Stations (see web site for locations) or online at the BuzzCard web site, students, faculty and staff may draw upon pre-deposited funds for the purchase of products and services throughout campus.
Source: Division of Auxiliary Services