How to plan your courses by semester by semester?
I think planning is important when it comes to graduating on time. I want to be more organized and make sure I am on the right track. #college #students #student-counseling
3 answers
Mikio’s Answer
Take the following steps:
-Get a list of all required courses needed to graduate
-Meet with your counselor to discuss your plan
-Decide what you want to take and which year (from mandatory courses)
-Split up courses by Semester
Put it down in a notebook and follow the course.
Thank you for the help! I will surely make a appointment with my counselor to start the planning process.
Akampreet
Kortnee’s Answer
Hello, Mikio!
As a higher education professional who provides academic advising to students, the best advice I can give you is to meet with an Academic Advisor. Too often, I witness my students misguiding themselves by creating their own educational plans. On that note, Academic Advisors have been trained to provide the best counseling for college students.
Best of luck with your educational and professional endeavors!
-Kortnee B.
Nicole’s Answer
I support many of the answers that have already been provided but I will elaborate on just a few. "The list of your classes you need to take", also sometimes called your syllabus. Admittedly, I wouldn't call it fun reading :). But it does give you a window into what classes, and some info about those classes, that you will need in order to graduate from your program. Know early how many credits you need to graduate. If you are overly mathematically like me :), and you know how many credits you need to graduate then you might start with taking that credit count and dividing by 8 to get a rough idea of how many credits you need to take per semester for an expected 4 years of college.
By the time you get to the end of your first year, second semester, you should have a way to reach out to students who have already taken some of the classes you have to take in order to identify a scheduling path that works best for you. What classes are better in the morning vs the afternoon? Who are the helpful TAs? What are examples of the projects/papers that you will be expected to complete? Having this type of knowledge BEFORE you start a class could be like gold.
Hope you find this answer helpful. Best of luck to you!