Salutations Day Welcome!

PSEO Student Association ❖ Registered student group ❖ Goal: enhance the PSEO experience! ❖ Social events open to all PSEO students ➢ Movie Night ➢ Holiday Party ➢ MOA Scavenger Hunt ❖ Academic resources ➢ Course reviews ➢ Ask PSEOSA

PSEOSA - Where to find us ❖ Facebook: PSEOSA ➢ PSEO group ❖ Website: PSEOSA.com ❖ look for our s on the PSEO listserv!

High school vs. college, myths, academic pointers

High School vs. U of M ❖ No one knows you’re PSEO!!! ❖ Resources don’t come to you - you have to find them ➢ Make an effort to know the professor ❖ More freedom/time in between classes ❖ No lunch (& no free/subsidized lunch from the Office) ❖ Classes move faster - in the good & bad ways VS.

Classes/Study Tips ❖ Study! (no … really) ➢ Cramming during midterms/finals is possible in some classes, but not for most ➢ Review notes, powerpoints, etc. incrementally ➢ Take good notes and stay awake! In smaller classes, teachers will notice if you’re not. ❖ Midterms/Finals ➢ Hard, but not impossible ➢ A shared trauma that brings us all closer together! ❖ Office hours scary, but they do help. ❖ Make sure you’re fulfilling HS requirements

Classes ❖ Missing class ➢ Always bring a doctor’s note ➢ When absent: check the Moodle page ➢ Classes are cool! ❖ Class sizes ➢ Small(ish) - more like HS ■ About 20 students ➢ Large - lecture hall-style ■ Typically w/ smaller discussion groups with TA ➢ At the U, you normally have a combination of both ❖ TAs & Professors ➢ TAs are more approachable, and have more office hours ➢ Professors can be elusive, but love to talk about their subject Sometimes, professors wear awesome costumes! (Prof. Kelvin Wong, Econ 1101)

If you need help… ❖ Go to office hours. The longer you wait, the more there’ll be to explain (& the longer the line) ❖ Google/Khan Academy/Wikipedia/Asking your classmates is always a good resource ❖ Go to the department website or Moodle for tutoring room times ➢ Google “[department name] U of M TC tutoring room hours” ➢ A bunch of grad students that help you for free! ❖ Talk to us! Odds are, one of us has taken that class, too.

Food, Study Spaces

Food ❖ Coffman ❖ Blegen ❖ Stadium Village ❖ Dinkytown ❖ 7 Corners

Coffee <3 ❖ Caribou ❖ Starbucks ❖ Other various coffee shops

Study Spaces ❖ Coffman ❖ Wiley ❖ Libraries ❖ Moos ❖ Lind ❖ The Cube

Relationships with People

Professors/ TA’s ❖ Office Hours ❖ Recommendation Letters ❖ TA’s usually more important than professors

Clubs ❖ Everyone should join a club ❖ Clubs for anything ❖ If not, make one

Social Life on Campus ❖ Almost always something going on, somewhere ❖ Make 3 friends in every class ➢ Don’t be embarrassed of saying you’re a PSEO kid ❖ Plan weekly outings/ get togethers

Transportation

Driving ❖ Parking Ramps and garages ❖ $4 ❖ Weisman Art Museum Garage ❖ TCF Stadium ❖ Church Street Garage ❖ East River Road Garage ❖ University Avenue Ramp

Busing ❖ Lots of options ❖ ❖ UPass ($100) ❖ Bus stops scattered around Campus ❖ Connector ❏ 123- East Bank Circulator ❏ 122- West Bank Circulator ❏ 121- All Campuses

Train/ Light Rail ❖ Northstar (Big Lake-Target Field) ❖ Metro ➢ Blue Line ■ Target Field- MOA ➢ Green Line ■ Target Field - St. Paul ➢ Red Line ■ MOA- Lakeville

Biking/Walking ❖ Nice Ride Program ❖ Bike Lanes on the road and sidewalks ❖ BEWARE OF BIKERS ❖ Big campus, walking takes time ❖ Skateboard, Longboard, Scooters, Rollerblades

Questions?