Incoming Student Advice, Part One!

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We out here? This is one of our first videos together. Oh, that's what we're gonna you're doing. Um, so we came up with six pieces of advice that we're gonna start out with. We thought that these six pieces would be a really good start. We'll probably have many more videos on advice that we can give to anyone. You'll know there's a two part of it you want you want. You know this one? This I know the first piece of advice which I think is really important. Especially when you're starting out your struggling. Professors, they're not just high school teachers. We're gonna take it easy on you If you mess up or say whatever. They're there for you and professors on our campus are required to have 5 to 7 hours minimum of office hours. They're a part of that support system, your friends, your community or C A. Is everybody on campus a support system? What's professors of the number one? Because they're the reason whether you pass or fail, so their office hours are, I always say, a key. The success when you're gonna talk to them, talk things out. You may have been going east, and they were going west with an assignment you would need toe narrow back in and turn around and go back the effort direction because that's, um, whether therefore, they're supposed to help you with that. If you want them to read over your paper email to them, let them know to say, Hey, I am coming in. We've got work to Dio and they're there for you have never met a professor on campus. You're struggling, and our professors were really good at being there for us, whether we're crying or less. I think it's a really good thing to think about, too, especially you know, if you just want to go say hi. So you get to know you, you know? Yeah, things like that. All one way to make friends right off the bat is to leave your door open. Leave your door open for maybe like the first couple weeks. Obviously, you shut it when you're sleeping or whatever else you're doing, you know? But you want to leave it open because this just allows people to come over, say hi. Maybe, you know, maybe if they need something I know when I was moving and I had a lot of people asking if they could borrow, like, a screwdriver stuff like that, because I had a tool box. Some people, you know, you did that kind of stuff and my door was open and I was able to make connections just like that right off the bat. So keeping the door open just allows you to make friends so easy. Your residence hall Whether you have guys next to you or you have girls, you're in a girl weighing guy wing doesn't really matter. It just really allows you to have those first connections at school, which could be some of the most important, you know, makes you feel more home more homelike. They're the first friends that you make there the first relationships, sense of happiness, sense of siblings or parents, or, like, family. For the next four or 500 years, their own campus with us, You get away with those people and think they're good old days. Yeah, on those people always remind you those good memories in time where you thought you were going to struggle and fail. A smile, the dumb, goofy memories That stuff really counts for sure. Don't get too involved as a freshman right off the bat on Lee. Um, I personally started with just entering the club for my major, which is social work that I became The vice president said Okay, can I use into this? Because I'm I'm going through my first semester and they said, yeah, yeah, they were like, just wait till your sophomore year, and that's when you officially take the title and we'll start working on things. Then I became a tour guide, and then I was like, Okay, these two things that I'm responsible for involved in that's I gotta stop right there because I need to be able to balance that in classes. That's also comes in with the fourth piece of advice balance. You have to find a balance between eat, sleep, hanging out, fund with friends, um, and then your schoolwork and then your clubs and warrants. So it's always going to stay involved on campus and be involved in these extra things. You need to balance the two school and that social life keeping yourself out there and active. Um, those were two really, really important things console about you and your health and your success on campus and balance is like the biggest. I keep saying the biggest key that's a yeah, but pretty big is just keeping everything together, because that's the only way you're gonna feel like you somewhat have your life to get, which is, you know, a little bit hard when you're in college.