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First-Year Success b y Design

First-Year Success b y Design. Leslie Copeland First-Year Coordinator First-Year Office, Student Services McGill University. First-Year Success by Design. Have you conscientiously assumed responsibility for your success?. First-Year Success by Design. Your success ties into how:

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First-Year Success b y Design

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  1. First-Year Successby Design Leslie Copeland First-Year Coordinator First-Year Office, Student Services McGill University

  2. First-Year Successby Design • Have you conscientiously assumed responsibility for your success?

  3. First-Year Successby Design • Your success ties into how: - you manage your time; - effective your study skills are; - you manage your health & wellness.

  4. First-Year Successby Design • Ultimately your success rests on the daily & weekly CHOICES you make about how you will: • Manage your time • Apply your study skills • Take care of your health

  5. First-Year Successby Design • Life still happens and support is available • YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE • Independent success means knowing where to go when you need help – and then acting on that knowledge and getting the help when you do.

  6. First-Year Successby Design FIRST-YEAR OFFICE Brown Student Services Building Suite 2100, 3600 McTavish Street 514-398-6913 www.mcgill.ca/firstyear firstyear@mcgill.ca Here to help with transitions, to provide year-long academic & social support and to help you make community connections.

  7. First-Year Successby Design Transitions: Question? What have been some of the biggest surprises / challenges / discoveries you’ve made this past month since starting your university careers?

  8. First-Year Successby Design • Transitions: Many of you may be experiencing the following transitions: • - leaving home for the first-time • - managing your time, your health, your money • - moving out of your comfort zones • – making new friends • – class sizes - re-learning how to learn – especially in large class environment • - realizing that your teachers probably won’t know your names • You are creating a new normal!

  9. First-Year Successby Design COUNSELLING SERVICE Brown Student Services Building, Suite 4200 514-398-3601 www.mcgill.ca/counselling counselling.service@mcgill.ca Here to help with personal problems, transitional issues, not meeting friends, time management, homesickness, exam anxiety – Workshops available

  10. First-Year Successby Design Time Management • One of the keys toward “Designing” first-year success • Good news! It is a skill and it can be learned. • Discipline / Habits = 21 Days

  11. First-Year Successby Design • Five Categories of Time Use • Wasted time • Busy time • Important and urgent • Urgent but not important • Important but not urgent • We need to define these for ourselves

  12. First-Year Successby Design • Question: • What are some of the biggest contributors to time lost?

  13. First-Year Successby Design • Procrastination! “ Procrastination is an invisible disease which takes talented individuals with great potential and turns him/her, slowly, bit-by-bit, over time, into a complete and utter failure.” How can I get myself to do what I need to do? Author: Terry Gogna

  14. First-Year Successby Design • Time Management Tips • Identify one day & time of the week (e.g., Sunday evening) to layout your week’s commitments. • Have a visual of the long term e.g., the semester • Learn to protect your time

  15. If you don’t manage your time, someone else will!

  16. First-Year Successby Design Study Skills • Re-learn effective use of class time • Develop your note taking skills vs. highlighting • Know when you work best • Consistent place to work • Take advantage of available workshops • academic skills (study skills, essay writing, multiple choice exams) • Counselling Service – exam anxiety, procrastination, study skills, staying ahead

  17. First-Year Successby Design TUTORIAL SERVICE Brown Student Services Building, Suite 4200 514-398-6011 www.mcgill.ca/tutoring tutoring.service@mcgill.ca Offers 1 hour of free tutoring each semester to first-year students.

  18. First-Year Successby Design Managing your health and wellness- includes physical, mental and emotional wellness • If you don’t take care of your body, your body will punish you with colds, mono, exhaustion, inability to sleep, weight loss, weight gain, etc.

  19. First-Year Successby Design HEALTH SERVICES (includes a Dental Clinic) Brown Student Services Building, Suite 3300 514-398-6017 www.mcgill.ca/studenthealth “Ask Dr. T.”

  20. First-Year Successby Design • Mental Health Service • Chaplaincy Service • Student Clubs • Schedule “play” time – movie night, dinner with friends • Leadership for Life! Summit – January 15, 2011 • Get Involved • Look for ways to develop your soft skills not just your academic skills

  21. First-Year Successby Design Have a great first semester!!

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