<p>The UHC itself hosts a lot of events too. The biggest thing being SHAC, the Student Honors Activity Council. They have a bunch of different branches like Academic, Social, Cultural, etc. Where they will get together to create and host events through the Honors college. Examples include scholarship talks, talks with various professors about research, movie nights, foreign food nights, trips to other cultural districts, and much more. The UHC also sponsors a LOT of clubs: book clubs, a literary magazine, the weekly MESS (Movies Everyone Should See), an acapella group, intramural softball teams, etc.</p>
<p>There’s also the advisors. They’re there to help you or just talk. You can go in to ask a question about class, school, life or whatever. Or you can just go in to say hi and talk about nothing in particular. They’re ridiculously friendly and incredibly helpful with whatever your problem may be.</p>
<p>I can’t think of anything else superly awesome off the top of my head, so that will have to do it for now. Honestly, the UHC is the main reason I came to Pitt (plus they love giving academic scholarships! Which is more than I can say for Pitt). The atmosphere and attitude of everyone involved was just so awesome I couldn’t resist.</p>
<p>And, based on PghMomof2’s experience, I’m going to do something I should have earlier: For anyone else coming to Pitt to tour/see, if you’d like to talk to a current student, without the facade of the OAFA or Pathfinders, DM me. We’ll set up a time to meet when you’re on campus. I can answer questions you may have that you may not want to ask an “official” person. And I can help show you around (time permitting) or point other important things out to you that you may not have heard of. So, just get in contact with me and we can set that up.</p>