It is never too early to plan ahead! There are two crucial tools that can help you stay on track throughout the semester: the class syllabus and a daily planner.
When you get your syllabus, read through it carefully. This is essentially your contract for the course. It contains a ton of important details about each class—including your professor’s office hours and contact information if you have any questions, required and suggested readings, classroom expectations, grading policies, and Supplemental Instruction information (if offered with your class), not to mention assignments and test dates!
A daily planner (whether in Outlook, on your iPad, or a spiral notebook) is your next most important tool–it will help you visually and physically keep track of all your commitments. First, mark all your class periods each week. Note all the important dates from each syllabus—homework assignments, readings, and exams. Fill in time to study—a good guideline is two hours studying for every hour you spend in class. This time can be used to read the materials and review your notes, or go to an SI session to discuss concepts from the lectures. Next, be sure to set aside breaks, including time to workout or just relax (it sounds silly—but you can’t forget to take care of yourself!). Keep an eye out for flyers around campus advertising student organizations or events that may interest you—and put those in your planner, too.
Using the available tools—the syllabus and a planner—can help you be more prepared and less stressed as you approach the end of the semester. Making a plan for your time—and following it!—will pay off when you are ready for the final exam and you have your final project completed on time! Start the new semester off right!
Event: Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Address with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Location: Student Union Multipurpose Room
Time: Wednesday, January 30th at 6:00pm
FREE, but please register here.
Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D., an American Book Award recipient and two-time NAACP Image Award winner, is one of the nation’s most influential and renowned public intellectuals. He has been named one of the 150 most powerful African Americans by Ebony magazine. The Philadelphia Weekly contends that Dyson “is reshaping what it means to be a public intellectual by becoming the most visible black academic of his time.”
Dyson’s pioneering scholarship has had a profound effect on American ideas. He has written several books, taught at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities, and appeared on nearly every major media outlet. In addition, he hosts an hour-long news and talk program on NPR, “The Michael Eric Dyson Show,” where he delivers thoughtful analysis of today’s biggest stories from pop culture to race relations.
Dr. Dyson is presently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. His legendary rise – from welfare father to Princeton Ph.D., from church pastor to college professor, from a factory worker who didn’t start college until he was 21 to a figure who has become what writer Naomi Wolf terms “the ideal public intellectual of our time” – may help explain why author Nathan McCall simply calls him “a street fighter in suit and tie.”
School of Dentistry Students are in need of patients for their National Dental Boards Clinical Examination on Sunday, March 17th and/or Monday, March 18th, 2013.
We are looking for patients who are in need of:
- Small fillings
- A “deep cleaning” with scaling and root planning
For your time, you will be reimbursed with free x-rays during student screening and dental services during the Boards Exams.
You must qualify under ALL of the following criteria, no exceptions will be accepted.
- Must be over 18 years old
- Must be in good overall health
- Must be reliable for attending your appointments
- Currently not in braces or fixed orthodontics
- Do not have dentures or have need for dentures
- Have over 16 teeth with back molar teeth
- Not currently receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatment
- MUST be available Sunday, March 17th and/or Monday, March 18th for a four hour AM or PM session
We will be holding a public “Screening” session on Saturday, January, 26th from 9:00 am – 2:00pm.
If you are not available for this date but are a qualified candidate, you may possibly receive another screening appointment time during regular business hours.
To schedule an appointment or for more information: Call 816-200-2278 or email dentalboards2013@gmail.com
An appointment is necessary for the screening to receive free dental services
**Please do not attend the screening session if you have acute or severe dental needs; we will not able to perform any dental services at the screening appointment. If you have acute dental needs, please come to the Emergency Clinic at the School of Dentistry during business hours or call 816-235-2100 for more information.
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