Okay this school is huge how do I survive

MYOS1634
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:42:21 +0000

How to make the huge university seem smaller:
1° Apply to the Globe (residential wing for Schreyer students) and attend their weekly events. You’ll develop a close-knit community quickly.
2° Join a charity club, volunteer with others.
3° Join an academic club.

4° Check for class sizes in the schedule of classes. Pick smaller classes so that you can get to know classmates and professors - either the Schreyer version or a smaller alternative (ie., if a history course looks interesting, is there a smaller one that is equally interesting? If a foreign language class looks big, is there another one that’s smaller?) Look at the number of students who can be enrolled by clicking on the course and section number.
First semster, you’ll take

CAS137, so this will be one class with only 15 students.

EDUC 100S would be the first year seminar and be small, too.

Psych 100H would be small too.

EDPsy 101 would have 24 students (it’s an applied math class). Math and money, or Math for citizenship (etc) would be large lectures.

Literature: depends what you take, but World Literature Honors would be small, check out other choices for Honors or non Honors alternatives.

if you take a foreign language most classes will be small (depending on level and language)
SO, depending on your choices, you may end up with all classes or most classes 24 and fewer students.

5° Apply for Leadership Jumpstart. It’s reserved to only 24 Schreyer studens, so it’ll be small, it’ll be different, and you’ll develop a relationship with others. Leadership Jumpstart would push Psych 100 to the 2nd semester (when it’s often taken) or replace foreign language past the 3rd semester.

Note that you’ll be more employable if you prepare an ESL certification but that’s for later on.