Academic Advising + Career Services
Other than technical abilities, this is the term for what CSE employers are looking for.
What are transferrable skills?
(Communication, critical thinking, flexibility, etc.)
This is a goal-setting framework that helps you ensure that your objectives are attainable within a certain time frame.
What are SMART goals?
(Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound)
The city where Sam studied abroad.
What is Dublin?
This campus resource provides free groceries including produce, meat, and dairy products and household items available to any University of Minnesota student. Located in Coffman Memorial Union.
What is Nutritious U Food Pantry?
This is a makerspace on campus with a large open work space designed primarily for prototyping and has many resources, including 3D printers, laser cutters, hand tools, computers, whiteboards, workbenches, and more.
What is the Anderson Student Innovation Lab?
This tool helps you find and plan your class schedule before your registration window.
What is Schedule Builder?
This is a technique where you link a new habit you want to establish with an existing habit you already do regularly.
What is Habit Stacking?
This major brings together biological sciences, engineering principles, and technology to address society's growing demands for material, food, and energy using renewable resources. This major offers three specializations. It is also Erik's favorite.
What is Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (BBE)?
This service offers advice and legal representation to eligible students at the University of Minnesota - practice areas include tenant rights, criminal cases, immigration, consumer, employment, wills, health care directives, power of attorney, name change, and gender change.
What is Student Legal Service?
Employers identify this as the most common mistake they see on student resumes.
What is Poor Quality Writing (misspelling, grammar)?
This is the University of Minnesota's free online career network that connects students and alumni with jobs, internships, and other opportunities
What is Handshake?
This is a tool through UMN libraries that breaks down research and writing projects into manageable steps based on your due dates.
What is The Assignment Calculator?
This is the name of your assignment due December 11th at 2:30pm.
What is Time Capsule Reflection?
This resource is a student-founded and student-employed program that promotes campus safety by providing all U of M students with a free safe ride home. It is open 7 days per week from 9 pm-1 am.
What is Boynton Health's Gopher Chauffeur?
This is a project-based experiential learning course only offered to freshmen in CSE that offers hands on learning in 3D Printing and Microcontrollers or Stratospheric Ballooning.
What is CSE 1012?
This is the report that lists your degree requirements, summarizes your progress, and explains what you still need to do to complete your undergraduate degree program.
What is the APAS (Academic Progress Audit System)?
This is a time management method that involves alternating between periods of focused work (25 mins) and short breaks (5 mins).
What is The Pomodoro Method?
This was the name of Sam's CSE 1012 device.
What is the Pill Popper?
This mental wellness resource provides informal virtual and in-person drop-in consultations for U of M students throughout the academic year. Counselors can listen to specific problems, provide support, help explore solutions, and give information about other resources.
What is Let's Talk?
This campus resource is one of the best ways for CSE students to get hands-on support with job materials including resumes, cover letters, mock interviews, and more.
What is meeting with a CSE Career Counselor?
This is the term for creating a backup plan to your first choice of major. Doing this can make it easier to pivot majors in the future.
What is Parallel Planning?
This is a task management tool that helps prioritize tasks by their urgency and importance. The user creates a four-quadrant diagram that divides tasks into the following categories - Do, Schedule, Delegate, Delete
What is The Eisenhower Matrix?
This person won season 33 (the most recent season) of Dancing with the Stars.
Who is Joey Graziadei?
This campus office rents outdoor gear including camping and backpacking gear; climbing, bouldering, and mountaineering gear; mountain bikes; canoes and paddle boards; classic and skate cross country skis; and Snowshoes
What is The Center for Outdoor Adventure?
These are the three components to write a strong skills statement [on your resume].
What is Action Verb + Detail + Result?