r/mizzou • u/como365 • 10h ago
History Proud art thou in Classic beauty
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From the State Historical Society of Missouri
https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/62971/rec/4724
r/mizzou • u/Existing-Bluebird930 • Jun 03 '25
New Freshman? Click here!
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Hello incoming students! I work at the University and here’s what any new Freshman (and their parents) should know heading into their academic advising appointment for Mizzou this summer.
Pre-Meeting:
- Make sure that you’ve filled in your Advising Preference survey so that your major will reach out and schedule an appointment. This should be available in your Slate profile by clicking here.
- Also, check your major in Slate; if you’re considering a different major than the one listed, change it in your Application Status page
- Complete your Pre-Advising Questionnaire. This is very important so that your advisor has accurate information when you meet.
- Take the My Math Placement Test. Even if you don’t anticipate needing a math course, it’s smart to at least take the Intermediate Algebra placement.
- Be sure to do this because you could be dropped from a Math class without a placement test on file.
- Then consider the Foreign Language Placement Test as well. Although a language is not required for every major at Mizzou, you might want to minor in one, so it’s good to take this and have it just in case.
- Items 2-4 can be found through MizzouOne
- Please check all AP and Dual Credit you may have and report that on the Pre-Advising Questionnaire.
- For Dual Credit, try to report that credit as it appears on your other school’s transcript. For example, Public Speaking at Moberly Area Community College is SPK 101. That helps an advisor know if you have direct credit for a requirement at Mizzou.
- Log into myZou and your University email. This will speed up enrollment and from that point forward your Mizzou email is the only email we will reach out to.
- You can log into your Mizzou email here and myZou here.
- Check your Wi-Fi connection just before your appointment so that your meeting can run smoothly.
- Download and install the Zoom app to your device if you’re attending an online advising session; you’ll log in with your university credentials (same as your email)
During Advising:
- If you are coming to a Zoom appointment, do not log on with a phone. You should come with a computer or a tablet so that you can share your screen if needed.
- These meetings for Summer Welcome Advising generally only last about 30-45 minutes, so it’s important to remember that you’re mainly only talking about enrollment for the upcoming term. It’s not likely that you will have time to create a 4-year or even a 1-year plan at this point. You can always make an appointment with your advisor in your first semester to plan out more semesters.
- Be open to taking different courses; especially if you bring in heaps of AP or Dual Credit, you may need to take some basic Gen Eds your first term before getting into major-specific requirements. The good thing is this: nearly everything in your first year is working for you in one way or another towards graduation.
- If your major has changed last minute and you haven’t changed it in Slate, please tell your advisor as soon as the appointment starts. Mizzou has a new process for helping you get enrolled and then routed to that new major.
- Students should be the ones driving the advising and enrollment meeting. So, parents, please allow your student the room to take control of the meeting and responsibility for their first term of classes.
- Finally, please be patient with your advisor and maintain a respectful demeanor. They’re working hard to accommodate your needs and degree requirements. If you don’t like your schedule for the next semester, there may be a chance to change it during the Add/Drop Period in the first week.
General Advice for Freshman and Parents:
- It takes 120 hours graduate from Mizzou and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a major on our campus that gets you to 120 all by itself. So you’re going to have to take some Gen Eds. These aren’t “fluff” classes if you take the time to speak with your advisor about helpful, meaningful courses. So be open to exploring different subject areas.
- Any non-Advising questions like Financial Aid, Housing, Dining, etc. should be directed to those offices. Advisors won’t be able to answer those kinds of questions other than to direct you to those offices.
- If you have general questions, you can try using the new Mizzou chat bot, Roary. This is a great resource for quick questions or if you need to find the right office to talk to:
- If you need to change something about your advising appointment (time, modality, etc.), contact that advising office first before making any changes in MU Connect.
- For a list of contacts for advising offices click here:
- If you’re in a pinch, you can always use Google by typing your query and then adding “Mizzou” to the end (e.g. “Financial Aid Mizzou” would get our Financial Aid office as your first result)
- Above all, work to build a relationship with your advisor. Your relationship doesn’t have to only be about choosing classes. They can help you set goals, discuss graduate and professional school, get involved on campus, and so much more. More often than not, the students that succeed were the ones that used advising for more than course selection.
We hope you have an excellent advising experience, a wonderful Summer break, and we can’t wait to see you at the start of the term!
M-I-Z!
r/mizzou • u/TheRealBianco • Mar 22 '23
Nervous about transferring to Mizzou? Check this post.
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Hello!
I have noticed quite a lot of posts here about transferring here to Mizzou, being an older student and transferring, worried about making friends, etc. Personally I transferred to Mizzou in the Fall 2022 semester, and I was in the exact same boat many who are making these posts are feeling. I am 25 years old, transferred from a community college in Illinois, and have a cousin that goes here but is only with me for two semesters.
To say I was nervous was an understatement. Being older I didn't think it would hit me as hard as it did (I have lived on my own without my parents since I was 20) and during welcome week I didn't even get to see my cousin at all. I didn't really go to any welcome week events do to poor coordination by my "Camp Trulaske" leader, so I was convinced I would not make any friends at all. During the last day of welcome week, the Midnight BBQ, I received the notification from the TEAM groupchat I was in that they would be meeting up beforehand, and entering together.
Going to this is where I made most of the friends I still have today in my second semester. Everyone in TEAM is in a similar situation, and so it puts you a lot more at ease. There is going to be over 1000 people transferring to Mizzou next semester (Fall 2023) who are just like you, and many of them will join TEAM.
TEAM is the transfer club for students in any year, any age, and any major. It is run by students, meets about once a week, and is a great way to get involved in addition to meeting friends. Additionally, through TEAM you can sign up for a student mentor who will check in on you every so often that you can talk with and ask any questions you may have. I signed up for one, which I found very helpful, even though the student assigned to me was younger than I am. He was able to answer a lot of questions I had about the business school which he was a grad student in, and eased a lot of my fears about classes.
TL;DR: Join TEAM. Sign up for a mentor. Trust me, it will help.
Check here for more info and sign up.
r/mizzou • u/como365 • 10h ago
History 100 years ago, in memory of students who passed in WWI
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History Some women journalism students in 1910
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From the State Historical Society of Missouri
https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/14874/rec/241
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Women journalism students with Winifred Black Bonfils of the Kansas City Post during Editors' Week at the University of Missouri. Upper row, left to right: Cannie R. Quinn, Etna McCormick, Mary Gentry Paxton, Florence Laturnofi. Front row, left to right: Heloise B. Kennedy, Ruby H. Sutton, Bessie Freedman, Winifred Black Bonfils, Blance Whitaker.
News Alpha-gal, MU Express Care clinics discussed at Health Affairs Committee meeting
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Opportunities to enhance data tracking for alpha-gal syndrome due to an uptick in cases were discussed Thursday by the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators Health Affairs Committee.
Alpha-gal syndrome is defined as “a serious, potentially life-threatening allergy and tick-borne disease. Alpha-gal is a molecule (galactose- alpha-1,3-galactose) that is naturally produced in the bodies of most mammals but not in people,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ross Zafonte, executive vice dean of the MU School of Medicine, said alpha-gal syndrome cases in Missouri have increased.
Zafonte said that more than a quarter of Missourians have been sensitized to alpha-gal, a sugar molecule in mammals, through lone star tick bites. Those sensitized to alpha-gal may be sensitive to red meat but may not experience severe reactions, like anaphylaxis, according to the National Library of Medicine.
Anaphylaxis is defined as a “severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It can occur within seconds or minutes of exposure to something you’re allergic to,” according to the Mayo Clinic. After exposure, the immune system floods the body with chemicals, causing symptoms including difficulty breathing, a rapid or weak pulse, vomiting and a skin rash.
This increase in sensitization could have a large financial impact on Missouri, from healthcare to groceries, diet and more, Zafonte said.
About 80,000 Missourians may have alpha-gal syndrome, which can result in anaphylaxis,according to LymeDisease.org.
In response to the increase, Benjamin Casterline, who specializes in dermatology and immunology at MU Health Care, is developing a disease registry to link symptoms to biological markers for further study.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will begin statewide case reporting within six months, according to Zafonte’s slide during the meeting.
“We are taking an aggressive, scientific approach, because of its impact to the state, on what happens to individuals that can include their antibody levels, and include who they are, but also this idea of repeat exposure and individual immune states,” Zafonte said.
The board also discussed MU Health Care’s Express Care clinics.
MU Health Care extended its hours starting Aug. 1 at Battle Avenue Medical Building at 7115 E. St. Charles Road in Columbia and Family Medicine Clinic at 1014 Madison St. in Jefferson City.
The MU Health Care clinics will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends and holidays, said Ric Ransom, MU Health Care’s chief executive officer.
“Express Care is designed to give patients the flexibility they need, offering extended hours, no appointment access and seamless connections to primary and specialist care,” he said.
MU Health Care closed its four Hy-Vee quick care locations on Aug. 1.
Campus Life Pokemon GO Tracker Map
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Hey there! If anyone plays pokemon go and is new to campus, for the past few years I've been running an interactive pokemon go scanner map/bot covering campus and Columbia, which allows tracking of 100% IV, gyms, rockets, research, etc.
Feel free to DM me if you're interested!
r/mizzou • u/lhsclarinet • 3d ago
Which gas station do you go to for regular gasoline?
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I'm looking at prices online, and most are around 3.89 per gallon
History Postcard Greetings from the University of Missouri (1915)
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From the State Historical Society of Missouri
https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/63260/rec/97
Athletics Is Mizzou football the 1960 national champion? Yes, says the U.S. Senate.
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There’s important college sports-related legislation making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week in the form of the Protect College Sports Act, up for consideration in the U.S. Senate.
But on Thursday afternoon, Missouri got its own moment in the Congressional record.
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, introduced a Senate resolution that recognizes Mizzou’s 1960 football team “for its undefeated regular season, Orange Bowl victory and claim to the 1960 national championship.”
No one in the Senate chamber objected to Schmitt’s resolution, so it passed. Senate resolutions are, by the chamber’s definition, considered reflective of the legislative body’s “sentiments” and do not have the force of law.
MU does not claim to have won the national title in 1960, though some external entities — including now the U.S. Senate — have made that claim on the school’s behalf.
That year, the Tigers only lost one game during the regular season, to Kansas. After the fact, though, the Big 8 Conference required the Jayhawks to forfeit the game because they’d fielded an ineligible player.
The game sparked outrage amongst fans and is still challenged today.
Missouri then went on to beat Navy and Heisman Trophy winner Joe Bellino in the Orange Bowl, finishing 11-0.
At that time, national champions were determined by a variety of sources — the BCS and College Football Playoff were decades away from being used to settle the matter.
In 1960, the Associated Press and coaches polls picked Minnesota as the champion following the regular season. When the Golden Gophers went on to lose to Washington, some sources instead recognized the Huskies as champs. Others still picked Ole Miss, with 10 wins and one tie, as the champ. Even a one-loss Iowa team got a championship nod.
There have been some in the Mizzou fanbase who would like to see the Tigers stake a claim to the 1960 title, even 60-plus years later.
“I’ve been beating the drum to try to get the university to recognize it because I think they have as much a right as anyone in the country to be national champions in 1960,” author Brendon Steenbergen, whose 2024 book Respectable Roughnecks detailed that season, told the Post-Dispatch previously.
Schmitt apparently feels similarly.
Prior to introducing his resolution, the Senator delivered a six-minute floor speech telling the story of Missouri’s 1960 season. Schmitt talked about then-coach Dan Devine’s motivations toward getting revenge against Oklahoma for a miserable 1958 loss; the talent of star Norris Stevenson, credited for breaking the color barrier at MU as the school’s first Black player to receive a football scholarship; and of course the infamous overturned loss against Kansas.
“Today, I’m proud to honor Coach Dan Devine, Norris Stevenson and every member of the undefeated 1960 Missouri Tigers,” Schmitt said in his prepared remarks. “Their promise was kept, their championship was earned, their record remains perfect. And Kansas still lost.”
r/mizzou • u/Old-Brother-6261 • 4d ago
ISO Mizzou Sweater to get rid of
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Anyone want this Missouri/Miss U sweater (Size M-L)? As seen on Drake in pics. Had my time with it & now I’m done. Willing to ship. MIZ/ZOU!
r/mizzou • u/She_Is_Me_72 • 5d ago
MU Health New PTO Policy
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Is anyone else as upset about the changes being made to the MU Health PTO as I am? I am so angry and so bothered, and I don't feel I even have a voice to express it. That's why I'm here. I have worked for MU Health 12 years. When I started 12 years ago under CEO Mitch Wasden, I was so proud to be an employee. We actively lived the Culture of Yes. Over the years since he left, I have felt more and more marginalized as an employee.
In January of 2024, MU Health employees (who are supposed to be just as much University of Missouri employees as everyone else) learned we were going to get four fewer PTO days than campus employees in the form of winter break. For those who don't work for MU, the School of Medicine and University Physicians are CAMPUS employees, not hospital. So, in the hospital we literally have some people in the same departments who get to take off during Christmas without using their PTO while others of us don't.
Now, we are told we are losing three holidays per year. So, in total, Hospital employees have SEVEN fewer paid days off per year than ALL other UM employees. They are doing this by putting all of our holidays into a PTO bucket and incrementally giving the time out to us every pay period. That might be okay if we were given equal time off. But we aren't. Currently, UM employees have 10 paid holidays per year. As of January 1, 2027, MU Health will only have 1, Veteran's Day. If we were treated equitably we would get 72 additional hours to compensate for the nine holidays (9 holidays times 8 hours). We are only getting an additional 48 hours, which is equivalent to 6 holidays. We completely lose the other three.
The other grossly inequitable part of this is that only hospital employees suffer the loss. University Physicians and School of Medicine do not lose time off. That means the DOCTORS do not suffer along with us. We were told that this change is necessary because as a hospital our benefit package is too rich in comparison to other hospitals nationally. If that is the case, then shouldn't the doctors be treated the same as those at all other hospitals? Aren't their benefits too rich as well? The hospital would not be in operation without its nurses, LPNs, techs, cooks, custodial workers, billers, etc. Yet we bear the loss alone. I stopped using MU Health for my personal medical care long ago. If you are a patient and you love your doctor, PLEASE ask him or her why he/she is not standing up for those of us with no voice? We as employees don't matter to the administration. If you are a patient, you matter because you are the customer. Please speak up for us.
Campus Life What is your favorite tree or natural spot on campus?
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Mizzou has a beautiful campus. Hard to beat Francis Quad. What are some of your favorites?
History Students setting in front of The Columns (circa 1910s)
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From the State Historical Society of Missouri
https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/65928/rec/7
News Mizzou's annual Tomato Festival comes back bigger, better for its 21st year
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Mizzou's annual Tomato Festival marks its 21st year Thursday | Mid-Missouri News | komu.com
https://www.komu.com/news/midmissourinews/mizzous-annual-tomato-festival-comes-back-bigger-better-for-its-21st-year/article_caa4bbc6-d084-51ba-bf0d-edde8e30a92f.html
r/mizzou • u/Actual_Confidence850 • 7d ago
Fitting in here and contemplating coming home
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Hello, I am a freshman here at Mizzou and I am from Illinois. This is my first time being at such a big school and I feel like its too big for me. I also have been having a hard time making friends as I feel if I'm not in a frat, no one will talk to me. I also am working a long distance relationship with my gf back at home and I'm worried this isn't going to work out in the future. I am contemplating coming home and am already looking at colleges closer to where I am from. Any advice on what I should do?
Campus Life A fantastic post from a former J-School faculty member, especially for those new to Columbia
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r/mizzou • u/YouthSorry1921 • 6d ago
Student Location Perspective (?)
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Hi! My son is transferring from MACC where he commuted. We are having trouble understanding the best areas to live, seems like most are far away from campus (commute again?)
Here are our three options so far:
-House located at E Broadway & Old 63 (liked this area because it’s close to the retail and campus)
-Domain (student apartments)
-collective (student but seems far)
We like the house location the best but don’t know what we don’t know. Any insight would be helpful!
r/mizzou • u/P_A_N_T_H_E_R_K • 7d ago
Housing Any cheap places to live near Mizzou?
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I currently live off-campus rooming with a friend, but I have had up to here with his slob lifestyle and I am feeling mentally unwell with how filthy and cluttered with junk the house is. I am a neat orderly guy and I am looking for similary neat people to room with. I don't have a very big budget, $500 max since I only work part time, but this should be okay provided I'm okay rooming with multiple people right?
r/mizzou • u/_Zipper_Fest_ • 7d ago
Zipper Fest 2026!!!
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It is just around the corner! Attending is a great way to support the creative people in our community, meet new people, and have fun.
News Mizzou kicks off fall semester with high enrollment, bustling campus
columbiamissourian.com
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r/mizzou • u/Ok-Acanthisitta6877 • 7d ago
Service
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Hey I'm a freshman on campus and I'm currently using Verizon as my primary internet provider however is not working well does any of y'all have some recommendations for a cell service provider that can work much better?
r/mizzou • u/hertzflac • 8d ago
How’s everyone holding up?
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I’m a freshmen student and it was stressful this morning. I was late to Chemistry by 2 minutes, but I imagine there are some other people who are having some of the first-time College woes that I’m having.
So, how are we doing?