This semester I have calculus, chemistry, and engineering design and labs. Keeping up with the course load has fueled me into buying cold brew from the local grocery store (to drink as a reward for my hard work, not for the caffeine).
This semester I have calculus, chemistry, and engineering design and labs. Keeping up with the course load has fueled me into buying cold brew from the local grocery store (to drink as a reward for my hard work, not for the caffeine).
Sarah, Health/Environmental Studies, Class of 2022
This is the question I’m asking myself after the first week of the fall term. I think my lack of organizational skills are now contributing to falling behind in school and don’t help an inner feeling that I’m always lacking something.
I’m trying three things to improve my focus by altering my working environment. One permanent change I made a few years ago was muting all of my notifications on my laptop in between the hours of 8:00 AM and 8:30 PM.
I had gotten in to grad school and received research funding, so surely I couldn’t be that bad a writer. I assumed that I could continue on writing the same way I had during my undergrad with little issue. I was wrong. But don’t worry: I got a lot better, so you can, too.
This year, SASS has a team of student bloggers who’ll be writing about their experiences of studying remotely every few weeks. In today’s post, our four bloggers introduce themselves, discuss what they’re excited to work on this year, and provide words of wisdom for everyone.
This is the second of Brigitte's two-part blog series looking back on her experiences writing lab reports as a first year and offering some advice, from a TA’s perspective, on how she should have been writing back when she started!
This is the second of Brigitte's two-part blog series looking back on her experiences writing lab reports as a first year and offering some advice, from a TA’s perspective, on how she should have been writing back when she started!
You knew you had to choose something to fill up your schedule outside of your major, so you picked the first thing that came to mind. Or, like many Queen’s students, you looked for the easiest courses you could take to guarantee yourself a high grade.