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10 Things You Should Do Before Your First Day of College
The days leading up to freshman year of college can feel like a flurry of activity. There’s enrollment, buying textbooks, moving into dorms – but often, it’s the little things you wouldn’t expect that can impact your experience most.
Dr. Ross and student producer Ashley Worley bring five tips each, combining both a professor and student’s perspectives on ten things you can do to prepare yourself for your first day of college. The list covers simple, often-overlooked advice that may have fallen by the wayside for busy high school seniors in the college transition. From learning how to manage your “housekeeping” tasks to preventing getting lost on campus, this episode brings the practical insider knowledge that’s essential for every incoming freshman.
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Speaker 2:Today we're talking about how to get ready for the first couple days of class. The new academic year is about to start. A lot of folks that are first-year students are coming on campus and we thought we'd give you 10 bits of advice about how to get started. Now Ashley's got her five and I've got my five. I'll give you one big general piece of advice, which is make it clear to your professor as you walk into the room that you are there and ready to learn. So how do you do that? Well, one of the ways is we have this thing called Canvas.
Speaker 2:If you don't know about it yet, get your dorm people or your advisor or someone that you know here to tell you how to get onto Canvas, because every course has a Canvas page and in it it tells you who your professor is, where the class meets, it has a list of your books, it has a lot of information about how your professor wants you to learn and what they want you to learn.
Speaker 2:A lot of times it will almost always include the syllabus, all of the assignments for the whole year. So get used to using that. It's a regular thing that you'll be checking in on. So that's the first thing Open up your class Canvas page and there's a different page for every course and let that orient you to what's coming. Second thing is enter the classroom with your eyes wide open, with your phone put away, and make eye contact with your professor from the very moment. Smile at him if you feel like it, or at least don't frown at him and act like you're there to get the work done. If you know your professor's name, that's always an impressive thing to do is say Hi, dr Ross, I'm Ashley Worley.
Speaker 3:And I think there needs to be a mindset shift from considering your professor or your teacher as just the scary authority figure in front of the room where in college, they really do want to engage with you. Is what I found, and the more that it can be a relationship, the more you're actually getting out of this university experience. At some point you're going to graduate and you're going to need letters of recommendation. You're going to need to ask questions to people. Some of the best academic advising and just general advice I've gotten is from professors who I took time to say hi to and go up and shake hands with and know about them, and they're super happy to give you good advice is what I found.
Speaker 2:And if shaking their hand seems a little too much the first day, just making that eye contact and acknowledging that you're there and letting them know that you're not terribly afraid. And I don't know how many students are really afraid. I think freshmen do tend to find it really hard, for example, to use our office hours, and I usually have to require students to come to my office hours and I will offer them to come in pairs or even in groups of three if they're anxious about it. But as you say, ashley, you've got to learn how to talk to adults, and not just like a lowly student but more and more like a peer. And as you get into college, more and more your professors will treat you like you're getting a lot closer to being an adult than your high school teachers did.
Speaker 2:Number three sit up front. Anybody who goes to the back of the room tells the professor that they're trying to hide or they're afraid. So sit up front. Don't ever go back to the back of the classroom. If you don't want to sit in the very front row, sit in the middle in the second row and stay there. One of the things that happens a lot of times in a class is that the professors learn who you are partly by associating where you sat. They get used to you there. And also you want to sit next to other students and get to know the students in the classroom. Later on we're going to talk about how to make friends in college and one of the ways is to sit next to people in class and talk to them.
Speaker 3:I will say I'm very guilty of being a back row sitter constantly, and I don't think it's necessarily because we're scared of the professor, you know. It's just that you get a little bit more room to be detached and observe if you're at the back.
Speaker 2:But being detached is not what any professor wants you to be. That's true. They want you to be engaged, and so if you already go into the back of the room in order to detach and observe, we don't want you to just observe, we want you to be an active participant. But I would add this You're now a junior and you've gotten pretty good at knowing how to speak up and participating and engaging in class and I know that about you from what your professors have told me, so that may be less of an issue for you, but if anybody out there is really afraid of their professors, embrace the fear and get up front. So my fourth item, my fourth piece of advice, is once you get all settled in, get that notebook out. You should have a notebook and you have a pen or pencil, and if you have an iPad or a computer that you're used to using, put it away, unless you're one of these people who has a stylus and you take your notes on the front of your iPad.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of evidence that note-taking by hand is the best way to really firm up information in your mind, and professors love to see students ready to take notes, and I'm always rattling on to students take notes. Take notes. Look like you're interested in the class. Be taking notes. A lot of times that first class day, the teacher is telling you a lot of things that you'll probably forget if you don't take notes, because you're going to be going to all new classes. There's a lot of new stuff, and so that's a really good day to take notes.
Speaker 3:I think I said pretty much one of the same things in my notes about the handwritten notes, and I think it's something that students tend to overlook. We're all used to taking notes on laptops and doing things on our laptop. It's easy, it's convenient, it's fast, yeah.
Speaker 2:And legible, much more legible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but a lot of times the convenient solutions don't make the information stick in my head.
Speaker 2:personally, Well, not just in your head. There's research that supports it. There's this thing called proprioceptive writing and this notion that partly it's not just that you're physically taking the notes down, which takes you a little bit longer, but you have to process, because you can't write as fast as you can type. You have to think about what you've just heard and sort it and figure out what's the most important thing to write down, and so by that simple act you're actually getting your first sort of dose of that information. And then, by having it in the notes and by writing it with your hand, there's muscle memory, all sorts of sneaky little things that happen that do help you learn better. But what about phones?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I personally it's just kind of a habit I have just to put your phone away in class. I mean you can't even do like a lot of physical note taking, so why even have it out? Some people who are great auditory learners, they can use their phone to record. But even then you set that up, you record, put it on the table away from you. You know you set that up, you record, put it on the table away from you. You know you're done. There's no need to be looking on your phone at that point. If you can dedicate your attention to whatever's happening in class, you'll have way better memory and actually get more out of the information that's being given to you.
Speaker 2:Well, I want to add a couple other things too. You know, there's also evidence that we're all addicted to our phones and some people are very anxious if they can't check their phone very often. But it's a real sign to a professor that you're not paying attention, if your eyes are on your phone or if you think you're hiding your phone in your lap. And yeah, no, we see that and we find it somewhere between disappointing and annoying. Again, you want your professor to feel as though you're there to do the work.
Speaker 2:Now there are times when a student has a crisis going on at home and they'll come up and say, dr Ross, my mom may have to go to the hospital, or my dog is delivering puppies today, or you know something like that. I said, okay, if I check my phone, and I'm happy to do that. I have a 95-year-old mother who calls me, sometimes in the middle of class On occasion. When I see it's from her, I will stop and I'll say folks, she's 95 and she's in North Carolina, I've got to check this. So I think we're pretty humane about it. But if you're really not present because your phone is more interesting to you than the class, why are you in class?
Speaker 3:What a waste of money, exactly, and time. My gosh, you're going to spend four years. If you're going to be on your phone for four years, why are you even here? For four years, you could be on your phone at home and not pay money.
Speaker 2:Well, and some people have started doing that too. One other thing, too, about recording. You have to ask a professor if they're willing to be recorded. You don't ever want to record them secretly. I have mixed feelings about it. Some years I've allowed students to record my class and I have had a few students who had certain learning disabilities. Where it was valuable to them, so I allowed them to do that. But generally it's frowned upon now, so you want to be careful about that. Now one thing I have noticed about taking notes students a lot of times will pull out their phone and take a picture of what's on the board. I don't really have a problem with that. I don't know if all professors do or not, but sometimes there's all this chicken scratch on the board which actually may be helping you to see If so, if you want to take a photograph on your phone of what's on the board. But usually you ought to wait until class is over before you do that.
Speaker 3:And about the recording thing too. The people that I've seen who use audio recordings of lectures are people who were blind. It was something they needed. They couldn't go back and look at note cards or whatever the thing is, so that was something specific to how they learn, and that's really what it was used for.
Speaker 2:And typically they've communicated that to the university and the university's special offices of accommodation have communicated that very discreetly to the faculty members. The faculty member knows no one has to be embarrassed or anything like that. But I also think if you're relying on a recording instead of taking your own notes, you may be missing much. You know there's a lot of apps these days. There's a lot of AI and you see it all the time now advertising. You know, get this app and you don't have to ever take notes in a meeting again, like for a meeting of the design team or a meeting of the department. I haven't seen them for classes, but when you're in a learning situation, I think that still you should be the one taking your own notes.
Speaker 3:And even kind of off track from that. I think every situation in life should be a learning situation.
Speaker 2:Well, I agree.
Speaker 3:Just because you already learned how to do notes and learn how to do all this stuff doesn't mean that now, when you're graduated, you can just put it away and you never have to do it again.
Speaker 2:Well, that's really true. That's really really true. And I've found I'm such an inveterate note taker that here I am as a full professor of English who's been practicing for 30 years. I still take notes wherever I am, and the last piece of advice is to get up to leave, smile and nod at your professor. This may seem silly to you and you may be a little bit afraid of professors if this is the first time you've ever been on the campus, but in fact we're people and we really like to get to know you and we don't want you to be afraid of us. We want you to work with us and be comfortable with us and ready to ask questions, and so, as soon as you can, if you start to sort of initiate some sort of human interaction between you and your professor and your classmates, you'll find that that's going to be a great way to get started and it'll really help you along the line.
Speaker 3:I thought that it was cool that you were emphasizing to have a relationship with the professors, because college is about so much more than the paperwork and getting the degree at the end of it. If you actually have built connections with people who will help you later on and who you learn a lot from, who have a lot more experience than you do, that's really what I think students should keep in mind, or should shift their mindset to when they come into college is that it's about building relationships.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you said that, because I really agree with that too.
Speaker 3:So first on my list, I have make a calendar of your class schedule and be sure to include your classroom number, your professor, your building, your textbook information, all these little extra things that you can put in the notes section of your calendar. Make use of that. It's really helpful to have it all in one place.
Speaker 2:What kind of calendar do you recommend?
Speaker 3:the native app on my phone. There are physical calendars some people can use those have note sections as well. Google Drive has a calendar. Whatever really you have available and that works for you. Definitely just make use of having that repeatable calendar and having your notes section. I remember when I first set up mine and it wasn't something I thought about until maybe a couple days before when I was thinking wait, do I have all my textbooks? Which professor's name is this? It's a lot to keep track of and I took it for granted that I would remember the names, but without having it written down and available, it will leave your brain. There's just too many other things happening.
Speaker 2:We often talk about the first couple days of class. You know, like drinking from a fire hydrant and just so you'll know. Professors know that you're getting a lot thrown at you that first week and the things that she just talked about. You can find those on your Canvas page for your courses.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but also having them written out somewhere for you. That will help them stick in your brain, and having the reminder too. You know you have class at this time, it's in this building and it's taught by this professor. You probably will stop thinking about it after the first week, but having it available for the first week to keep repeating.
Speaker 2:You've got to get into a routine and you haven't had a routine all summer, hopefully, although you may have been working. But it's going to be a very different routine than the one you're used to.
Speaker 3:For sure. Oh, it never hurts to double check your room locations because sometimes they have a temporary location listed when you register early and then it changes, you know, for whatever reason before the first day and I've gone to wrong classrooms because of that. It's just something that is a practical thing you've got to keep in mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that happens all the time. I was just flying home from a conference in Chicago and they changed my gate three times before I finally got to my flight home, and so fortunately, those things usually will be on the Canvas site or there'll be an email sent to you by your professor.
Speaker 3:And also it's good to keep track of the textbooks that you're going to need to buy beforehand and have them ready. But when you get to that first day, it's worth talking to the professor about whether or not you actually will need the textbook, because sometimes there's a requirement to list a textbook on the syllabus and then when you actually see the Canvas page or speak to them in person, they're like I was required to list this as the course material, but really what we're doing is more discussion or more this or that. So if you can access this first chapter that may be available free online, or I have a copy of this textbook that I've written you can have a copy. It's worth talking to them, because sometimes I've ended up with very expensive textbooks that we didn't end up needing them or actually needing to use them, but it was way too late for me to return them by the time I thought about it, because it got buried under the slush pile of other things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you order them real early too. But I will say this the other thing to ask a professor is like in my case, I have three books, three novels. Which one do I need the first week and that'll be on the schedule, so you don't have to bring all three and that way you don't have to carry stuff around. But on this note about books, have to carry stuff around. But on this note about books, if the professor wants you to have the book and you're going to use it, bring it to class every day.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. You should have it in class every day along with your notebook.
Speaker 3:So my second tip was to get on Rate my Professor, but with caution. Every ratings-based platform will only ever attract pretty much the people who love the thing they're rating or who absolutely hate the thing they're rating A lot of people who had an average experience. It doesn't occur to them to write about it because it didn't really stand out that much. So if somebody was just like a standard good professor, we had a good time they probably didn't think about it all that much, especially if it was a core class and won't have left that kind of a review. But Rate my Professor can be a good resource when you keep that in mind.
Speaker 3:You can go through the reviews and find, okay, what are people saying that they loved or hated? You can tend to find things that are not true as well. So you're like oh, this person said they hated this professor because they gave me a B. You know Well, that just means that, okay, now I know about this professor that they're an honest grader and that I will be asked to step up to the plate. So if you're not just taking it as everything that the reviews say is 100% true, factual, you can actually get a lot of great information. You know, especially stuff that you couldn't prepare for otherwise unless you'd talked to another student who'd been in the class stuff about their teaching style, whether it's very discussion-heavy. There's a lot of writing involved, all these sorts of detailed things that matter to students, but that is not really available information.
Speaker 2:Just a little subnote to that is that if you will look at that Canvas page where the professor has their policy statement, usually they'll say some things in there about what they expect. And so, for example, I always say I expect students to show up and be engaged, and I'll even say, even if you haven't done the homework, show up, you'll get something from the class and that can tell you something about me as a professor. The other thing would be, if you have a chance to find out from other majors, majors are really good because they've been around for a little while and they can compare a professor to the other professors. And keep in mind too, if you're a first-year student, you may be taking core classes. Some of those in some fields are real large and, like in the English field and I think in Mass Comm, they tend to be smaller.
Speaker 3:So all these little things will kind of help you not be surprised when you show up. I'm going to move to the third tip, which was to walk the campus or have a map on hand before your first day Really, really important. I used to be a tour guide and UT is kind of a smaller campus. Before my first day I sort of took it for granted that maybe I'd be able to find things. I even had a sister here who knew where the layout was and everything. I'd had one tour, you know, during the summer and I was like, yeah, that's probably enough.
Speaker 3:You know that's plenty, but it can be really overwhelming if you've never been on this campus. You're just kind of exploring it but actually class is in 10 minutes so we don't really have time to wander around and find where the room location is. So it's just super important to prepare yourself and there's nothing really like walking through it beforehand. If you can. If you don't have access to it, maybe you could look at like a Google Maps view sort of thing, do a 360 tour, just whatever's available. But actually walking to the building, the room number and knowing it physically in relation to the other landmarks on campus will help you a ton.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know. Another thing too is that a lot of times the classroom number will be like HPR and you go, what does that mean? Or Radcliffe North, or Radcliffe South, and so if you have a map it'll have the names of the buildings and then you'll begin to not have to worry about the H-P-R thing. You'll know it's that one over there, the big one with the red top. The other thing, too is, as a professor, I will oftentimes see students walk on the campus on that day before, and almost always one of the professors will probably greet you during that time, and we love to see that. It's a real sign of a student who's trying to get themselves launched.
Speaker 3:Well, and the first day is stressful enough, honestly, For us too. You don't need to add getting lost to the other things that you've got to worry about on the first day.
Speaker 2:Although I will add that professors tend to be pretty generous about people being lost on the first day. Although I will add that professors tend to be pretty generous about people being lost on the first day because we get especially for first-year students.
Speaker 3:Right. Oh, and on that note also, it's important to scout out parking beforehand, if you can. It's not something that I thought about, not something that a lot of people think about, but boy, will you start to think about it after that first week, or so, that first day even, because everybody's showing up on the first day and everybody's trying to find the parking on the first day, some lots will automatically get more crowded. You know, and you won't have known about that beforehand, this is your first time on campus and other lots will be kind of empty, but you won't really know. They're across campus, so am I going to drive to the other? It can become a whole mess.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, other it can become a whole mess. Oh yeah, and if your class starts at 11 and you think you can get a parking space at 1055, you will be sorely disappointed. Always get there a good at least a half hour early if you can, especially the first week or two when everybody's figuring out the parking situation, and a lot of times it's really smart to park in one place that's sort of central, so you can go to all your classes. But boy, I've had students miss 30 minutes of class because they couldn't find a parking place. I myself have come rolling in. Now there are faculty spaces reserved for us, but even then sometimes those are all taken and that's such a downer to have everything ready and then to blow it because of parking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you cannot overlook it, and I've never actually been to a university or heard from somebody else who was at another university that said we have great parking. There's no parking problems here. That's never the case just because there's so many people at so many times of day, and parking will empty after certain times of day too, so you've got to learn when the rushes will come and when they're not. Again, if you have access to anybody who is already on campus or who you know at the university, this is something worth talking to them about beforehand.
Speaker 2:And if you're living on campus, don't drive, just walk, because what you're doing is you're getting in the way of the poor commuters.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I know I'm a commuter. I come from about 45 minutes away and we're scrapping it out every morning, me and the other commuters. Oh, but also the other thing to note about scouting out your campus layout beforehand is this will help you to find where the community spaces are, and that's something where, if you don't look for them, you may forget to look for them later and find yourself in between classes like wait, where do I go?
Speaker 2:Where's the ladies room and the men's room? Where can I get some food or a drink? Where can I just throw my stuff down and put my feet up for a little while?
Speaker 3:Where can I sit and study for the 30 minutes I have between classes and where can I sit and study that's as near as possible to my class so that I'm not having to run or that kind of thing?
Speaker 2:And I'm glad you brought that up. We're going to talk a little bit more later on about making friends and stuff, but those community spaces end up being a part of the social story of college too, and so we'll be talking about that again.
Speaker 3:My fourth tip is actually something that Dr Ross already said is to get a notebook, a physical notebook, or else, you know, have a stylus or something that you're taking notes by hand with on your iPad that the more effort you're putting into actually retaining this information and the more you're having to summarize in your own words what's being said, the better that information is going to stay with you, and for longer.
Speaker 2:Also, there's a lot of evidence that if you don't take notes period, your memory is not nearly as good as you think it is, and people tend to forget as much as 80% of what they heard within two or three days. And so by taking notes you're hopefully getting closer to 40 or 50%. That you'll sort of solidify in your sensorium, in your brain, but then you also have the notes to review. So, yeah, note-taking is a really important skill.
Speaker 3:And the funny thing is that's something I even knew about beforehand and I had all my notes, stuff with me, but I still didn't even consider it important. I'm like this is just something that you do, but what I found is that, like personally, yes, it does help me to remember them better. But the other funny thing too, in terms of just what handwriting can do for your memory I have been habitually given journals for like every birthday since I was born. For some reason I don't know why I must look like a journal person to people I've never journaled, and it got to the point where, about when I started college, I just had these shelves full of empty journals and I'm like I either got to get rid of these or start using them.
Speaker 3:So what I decided to do was you know what? I'm just going to write summaries of what happened every day and the most unimportant things. You know, like I ate eggs for breakfast. These are the most boring journals you will ever lay hands upon in your life. But what I found is that by doing that, I actually have way better recall of what happened and better recall of how I felt in that situation or what the specific situation was, things that I didn't write down about it. I remember and it just helps with that clarity. So much and it's not something I ever would have thought about. But now I journal every day.
Speaker 2:And I'll add this to a professor who sees a student just sitting there passively doing nothing during a class really wonders how engaged they are. And because we know what Ashley's just said about the way we learn from taking notes, we know that you're not learning as much as somebody else and we want you to not do that.
Speaker 3:And my fifth and final tip again something Dr Ross emphasized, but it's to read the syllabus, sign into Canvas, check your university email, all this housekeeping stuff we tend to not think about before the first day. It was something that I was like. You know what? I'll do it on day one, because that's when the classes are open, that's when all this information is available. Actually, most of the time it's available as much as a week before the classes even start, and so that gives you enough time to again know for sure your room numbers, read about the professor and their background, your textbooks, all this housekeeping stuff. That's not so much fun to think about on your first day, honestly, but it's very necessary.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just good taking care of yourself, to be honest.
Speaker 3:Reading your syllabus, signing into Canvas. If something like a classroom location change or a textbook change, class cancellation, if stuff like that comes up, you'll be ahead of the game for that. So it's a good idea to be up to date on that beforehand, just so that you're not going to the classroom and finding out the class is canceled. I've done that a number of times and also it's just going to head off some of the stress that you might have for the first day and some classes actually will have homework due ahead of time. That's kind of rare. I've not encountered that.
Speaker 2:A lot of times, professors, you know we want to get to know you ahead of time if possible, and so, especially if we open our Canvas course early, we might ask students to send a brief paragraph introducing themselves, or I oftentimes will ask students to send me a picture and three things they'd like me to know about, and it's really interesting to see which students find that assignment and turn it in and which ones missed it completely. It's usually the ones who didn't follow Ashley's advice who missed it completely, and it's always nice to know ahead of time. For me, as a professor who's already paying attention, because, you know, the truth is is attention is one of our biggest commodities, and you need to learn how to direct it at the things that are most important. I think if we were going to wrap this up, I'll let you wrap up too, but I hope what you've heard is that, first of all, we're real excited about the opening of school.
Speaker 2:It's a fun time and we want you to be ready to get as much out of it as possible, and that includes being ready to learn, being open to getting to know new people and new ideas, and also being proactive about looking out for yourself. Your mom and dad aren't there, or your grandparents or your guardians are not there to tell you to wake up anymore. They're not there to make sure you get to class on time. Or did you fill up your notebook? Did you put all the stuff in your backpack? It's your turn to start being the grown-up, and that's kind of fun too, isn't it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is too, isn't it? Yeah, it is, and in a similar vein, before you come to class, it's great to just go ahead and leave behind the idea that the learning will only happen in these formal circumstances or that school doesn't start until tomorrow, so I'm not going to check my email until tomorrow. College is a phase of life. It's about the relationships and learning, which doesn't necessarily happen always in those very formal parameters.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so much more than what goes on in classrooms. Yeah.
Speaker 3:So if you're confining yourself to I'm just doing the work when I'm in class or I'm just thinking about school stuff in your business brain, basically while I'm in class, you're going to miss out on a lot of stuff and you're actually probably going to fall behind in your work because college requires you to spend as much time as you're spending in class. Spend that much time outside of class working on it and actually developing your skills and yourself.
Speaker 2:And you're going to be exercising sort of new parts of your brain and new parts of your life, and it's fun. But it will be frustrating and you'll make some mistakes, and mistakes are okay. In fact, one of the things I always tell my students you always learn more from making mistakes, and sometimes even by failing, than you do by being perfect all the time. So be kind to yourself, but also take good care of yourself. Give yourself a chance to shine. So we're looking forward to seeing you on the first care of yourself. Give yourself a chance to shine. So we're looking forward to seeing you on the first day of class and we're looking forward to seeing you on the last day of class.
Speaker 3:And if anybody has any questions that they would like to submit before their first day, anything that we could help answer, feel free to leave a comment below or to send us your questions at adrquestions at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:Sounds good to me. So well, that was pretty interesting. I enjoyed that. I guess that's a wrap, ashley.
Speaker 3:Yes, ma'am, this has been the Ask Dr Ross podcast. Thank you so much for listening in with us today, and if you have questions about college life or any of the topics that we were talking about today, please send us your questions to adrquestions at gmailcom. We'd love to hear from you. In the meanwhile, we'll see you in the next episode. Thank you very much. This is Ashley Wirtlech signing off.
Speaker 1:Bye-bye.
