Offices and Resources
This office can help with resumes, cover letters, finding part-time jobs, and interview prep.
Career Development Center in Alumni College Center (ACC), room 102.
These people work within Holistic Student Support Office and they provide guidance, expert planning, and moral support.
SSA (Student Support Advisor).
Putting things off until the last minute is called this.
Procrastination
When looking at your class syllabus, you should note down and/or highlight any of these things (there is more than one answer).
The professor's office hours, contact information, expectations, the overall grade breakdown in percentages, IMPORTANT DUE DATES OF PROJECTS/EXAMS/PAPERS, your responsibilities, and/or course outcomes!
Use this digital or paper tool to stay on top of due dates.
What is a planner or calendar?
This office can offer you resources such as testing accommodations, note taking, and assistive technology (i.e. screen reader).
Office of Accessibility Resources OAR, Wilcox Hall Room 129 A-E inside the Learning Commons.
If you were locked out or needed kitchen access you would reach out to this person.
Your RA!!!!
A small reward after completing a task is called this type of motivation.
What is extrinsic motivation?
You would add one of these at the end of your email after the end greeting, that typically includes your name, job position(s), involvement with clubs or organizations (i.e. Treasurer of Nessie Club), school, and sometimes your major.
Email Signature.
To make friends and get involved, you should check out these on campus.
What are clubs or student organizations?
In this department they handle giving you your ID's, giving out parking passes, and as well as law enforcement and emergency response.
Public Safety, Academic Building Room 106.
These two people you can meet to discuss how to manage your time, classes, discuss community event ideas, or any ideas you have to improve the residence halls with.
RD in Community Development (Patti) and RD in Academic Supports (Colby).
This matrix helps you sort tasks by importance and urgency.
What is the Eisenhower Matrix?
This is the part of the email where you include the topic of your email (i.e. "ENG 101 Questions About Upcoming Exam: [first name] [last name]").
Subject Line.
This social behavior will make your professors more likely to help you succeed.
What is going to office hours?
This place provides students and staff a wide range of services to help you maintain a healthy life style including counseling, basic first aid, and referrals to provide more treatment.
Health Center in Alumni College Center ACC, Room 104, M-F 8:30AM to 4:30PM.
This student run group are people whose main purpose is to represent students to the college, oversee your student activity fee, and to plan events for the college.
Student Congress!
This group meets once a week and everyone is welcome to join and get involved, they also help oversee clubs and other student organizations!
“Eat the frog” means to do this.
What is tackle the hardest task first?
When closing an email after saying a proper end greeting, typically you would put in this many amount of letter spaces between your closing statement and your typed name to make your email grammatically correct.
Three letter spaces.
You can save money on textbooks by doing this.
What is renting, buying used, or using free digital versions?
Your SSA's work within in this office that provide you support to guide you towards your education goals!
Holistic Student Support Office in Payne Hall room 104B.
These people can provide you assistance with your coursework including proof reading papers, help with mathematics, and can provide extra help in most of the courses offered at MVCC.
Tutors and Writing Consultants!
They are located in the Learning Commons in Wilcox Hall room 129.
Chronic procrastination can lead to this physical or mental outcome.
What is stress, burnout, or anxiety?
When should you start studying for your midterms and final exams?
Day 1! Don't wait or procrastinate!!!! Studying for your exams from day one will give you more time to understand your course materials and utilize it as review over time or help you identify harder concepts early on before it's the night before an exam! :)
You’ll waste less time and remember more if you do this during your study sessions.
What is study without distractions or use active recall?