CCAS, GW, and DC
The resource to find student organizations at GW
What is GW Engage?
The name of the activity we did to try and see connections between past experiences and interests
What are Wandering Maps?
It is better to: reread/restudy your notes or quiz yourself
What is quizzing yourself? (Research has demonstrated the benefits of retrieval practice)
Two clubs/ activities you learned about during the "My activities" presentations with your classmates
What are ____? (Pilates classes on the Vern, the Nashman Center, French Club, so many options!)
Name two of the six categories of the Holland Code
What are ____? (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional)
Research has shown it is better to: study once a week for an hour or study for ten minutes every day
What is studying every day? (This benefit is often referred to as "spacing practice" as opposed to "massing practice.")
Name three typical headings/subsections on a resume
What are ____? (Education, Experience, Skills, Honors and Awards, etc)
Some time management techniques to best balance academic and extracurricular life
What is the Pomodoro Technique, the Forest app, tracking with Google calendar, using Trello to make to-do lists, etc.?
According to the "Why some of us don't have one true calling" TedTalk, many of us fit into one of these two categories
What are specialists and multipotentialites?
The number of credits required to graduate
What are 120 credits?
Verbs such as "appointed," "created," "reorganized," and "initiated."
What are "action verbs" and how can they enhance resume accomplishments?
Three places we looked at in the GW and DC virtual scavenger hunt
What are _____ ? (ex. the Botanical Gardens, Planet Word, the Lisner Auditorium, the GW Textile Museum, etc)
Name the two types of mindsets according to Carol Dweck
What are fixed mindset and growth mindest?
Where to find information about majors, minors, course prerequisites
What is the GW Bulletin?
Name three ways to strengthen a resume
What are ____? (making the resume specific to the job, quantifying accomplishments, organizing relevant experiences, showing how your experiences align with the skills sought for the position, etc)
Four of the offices from the "campus resources" presentations
What are ____? (Study Abroad, Title IX office, The Store, Multicultural Student Services, Nashman Center for Civic Engagement, Colonial Health Center, etc)
Name three helpful tips from the Student Panelists presentations
What are...[specific info from the upper-class students who visited]?
You have to take two of these after completing UW 1020 (University Writing)
What are WID (Writing in the Disciplines) courses?
S.T.A.R. is the abbreviation
What are "skill-task-action-result" bullet points, and how can they enhance a resume?