HP Virtual Orientation Mod 3: Balancing Your Schedule — Transcript

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1. 0:00All right, guys. So, I'm here tonight
2. 0:02with Hyper Promise and we're going to
3. 0:04talk about your schedule, time
4. 0:07management, and everything else you need
5. 0:08to know about that year. So, let's get
6. 0:11into it.
7. 0:12>> Here with Melissa. So, Melissa, can you
8. 0:14tell me the difference between general
9. 0:16education requirements and major
10. 0:18requirements? Well, general education
11. 0:20requirements are more like your math,
12. 0:24your science courses, anything that is
13. 0:26like generally every single person on
14. 0:29the campus is going to have to take in
15. 0:30order to graduate. And then your major
16. 0:32requirements are the classes that you
17. 0:34have to take to earn your specific
18. 0:36degree. So like chemical engineers have
19. 0:40to take specific engineering courses
20. 0:42>> or go probably
21. 0:45>> and music majors like I was have to take
22. 0:47specific music courses. A lot of has to
23. 0:50go in a certain sequence. There's
24. 0:51prerequisites. So that's the major
25. 0:53difference.
26. 0:53>> All right. I'm here with Sam.
27. 0:55>> Hi.
28. 0:55>> Can you tell me how you balanced your
29. 0:58personal commitments with your academic
30. 1:00responsibilities?
31. 1:01>> Sure. Well, so I didn't start off doing
32. 1:05that really well. I kind of made a lot
33. 1:08of mistakes until I figured it out. So,
34. 1:10I would just sort of fly by the seat of
35. 1:12my pants and just try and get stuff
36. 1:14done. And then eventually I realized
37. 1:16like I I have to write everything down.
38. 1:18So, I would use a big calendar and then
39. 1:21I'd put in like my classes, like when
40. 1:24the paper was due, when I had to start
41. 1:26working on it. I actually would schedule
42. 1:29like have fun, don't have fun, drink
43. 1:32coffee. So, I would like schedule like
44. 1:34days ago. so that I would know that I
45. 1:37could manage my time so I would didn't
46. 1:38end up like like a harid crazy person
47. 1:41trying to cram for an exam. But it was a
48. 1:43learning curve. It didn't happen
49. 1:44overnight. Perfect. I'm here with Mimi.
50. 1:46So Mimi, can you tell me why is it
51. 1:49important in your opinion to consider
52. 1:51your personal interest while also making
53. 1:53sure you fulfill your major
54. 1:54requirements?
55. 1:56>> That is a great question. It's important
56. 1:58to consider your personal interest
57. 1:59because you never know what you're going
58. 2:01to do for a career after college.
59. 2:03Sometimes it's kind of hard to find a
60. 2:04job after college, y'all. So, it's good
61. 2:06to leverage your personal interest. So,
62. 2:08if you have interest in communications
63. 2:10or music, but your major is like
64. 2:12finance, guess what? You can leverage
65. 2:14both of those skills in the future for a
66. 2:17future career. I actually did the same
67. 2:18thing. My major was psychology
68. 2:21and but I really wanted to do music or
69. 2:24something in the creative world. So, I
70. 2:25actually ended up taking some
71. 2:26communications courses. I learned about
72. 2:29copywriting and marketing and yeah now
73. 2:32I've done film production. I've become
74. 2:34an organizational development
75. 2:36consultant. I mean it's just good to
76. 2:38have different skills. So don't neglect
77. 2:40your personal interests and yeah.
78. 2:44>> All right guys, I'm here with Savon. So
79. 2:46Savon, can you tell me how would you
80. 2:48balance taking challenging STEM courses
81. 2:51as well as other courses in a given
82. 2:54semester?
83. 2:55So the problem is if you're a STEM
84. 2:57major, often times you've got to take
85. 2:59certain courses, but it's being smart
86. 3:02about it, remembering, looking at how is
87. 3:05that schedule? Can you take it over a
88. 3:08year? Can you maybe take a summer
89. 3:10course? And it's also planning out like
90. 3:13understanding if you're taking chemistry
91. 3:15and there's a lap with that. It's also
92. 3:18finding what subjects are easy for you
93. 3:21and try to balance those out. Maybe
94. 3:24you're taking a film course or maybe
95. 3:26you're taking
96. 3:29a history course because history is easy
97. 3:31but not overloading your sciences. And
98. 3:34then it's definitely about finding a
99. 3:36study buddy, friend, help someone to
100. 3:40help you who can help you study, drag
101. 3:44you to the library, quiz you, things
102. 3:47like that. and using your professors,
103. 3:50using online videos. Some of our
104. 3:53scholars have told us that they like
105. 3:56videos are their best friend in helping
106. 3:59understand a concept. Everything is
107. 4:01available. You just have to reach out.
108. 4:04>> Okay, bonus question. What Hartford
109. 4:07Promise staff would be best to reach out
110. 4:09if you have a question about scheduling
111. 4:11your courses?
112. 4:13So scheduling your courses, I would say
113. 4:16you should talk to your coach because
114. 4:19they know your individual schools. They
115. 4:23know your schedule. Don't forget about
116. 4:26add drop date and be smart realizing you
117. 4:29can start a class and think very quickly
118. 4:32it's not the right class for you, right?
119. 4:35So take advantage of those folks.
120. 4:38>> Thank you. All right, guys. I'm here
121. 4:40with Rachel, our newest reaching forward
122. 4:42coach. So, Rachel, what advice do you
123. 4:44have for incoming freshmen with the
124. 4:46transition to college as they figure out
125. 4:49time management strategies?
126. 4:51>> So, I think time management is so
127. 4:53challenging in college because it's just
128. 4:55you and there's not really anyone who's
129. 4:58keeping track of you, telling you when
130. 5:00to eat, telling you to go to class,
131. 5:02telling you to do your homework. Um, so
132. 5:05one of the things that is a great piece
133. 5:07of advice from a recent college graduate
134. 5:10is to really look through your syllabus.
135. 5:12When you get a syllabus at the the first
136. 5:14day of class, go through that syllabus.
137. 5:17There's usually a week or two during the
138. 5:19semester where you're going to have a
139. 5:21bunch of papers or a bunch of projects
140. 5:23due at once. Mark that down so that you
141. 5:26can start planning backwards so that you
142. 5:28know, okay, these two weeks are going to
143. 5:30be really heavy. I need to make sure I'm
144. 5:32prioritizing a lot of homework time,
145. 5:34library time, etc. for those weeks. Um,
146. 5:38I think when you're starting college, it
147. 5:40is really important to get out there and
148. 5:42meet people. You want to do all that
149. 5:43socializing. See if you can find ways to
150. 5:46combine the two. So, maybe you're
151. 5:48meeting someone to study. Maybe you're
152. 5:50meeting someone to go to the library.
153. 5:52Maybe you're meeting someone to talk
154. 5:53through a problem set or do some of that
155. 5:56work together. Um, and the other thing I
156. 5:59would say is there's a little bit of
157. 6:00experimentation with sort of getting to
158. 6:03know yourself, figuring out do you do
159. 6:05better in morning classes or evening
160. 6:07classes. Um, so that it might not be
161. 6:11your first semester that you find that
162. 6:14kind of perfect balance, but like
163. 6:16hopefully as each semester goes by, you
164. 6:18figure out more things for yourself.
165. 6:21>> Perfect. Thank you, Rachel.
166. 6:23>> All right, so that's the end of this
167. 6:25segment. So see you later scholars.
168. 6:28>> Bye.