CSE Student Services:
Academic Advising + Career Services
Time Management Strategies
Random
Campus Resources
Experiential Learning + Resumes
100

Other than technical abilities, this is the term for what CSE employers are looking for. 

What are transferrable skills?

(Communication, critical thinking, flexibility, etc.)

100

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)

100

The city where Sam studied abroad.

What is Dublin?

100

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?

100

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?

200

This tool helps you find and plan your class schedule before your registration window.

What is Schedule Builder?

200

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?

200

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)?

200

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?

200

Employers identify this as the most common mistake they see on student resumes.

What is Poor Quality Writing (misspelling, grammar)?

300

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?

300

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?

300

This is the name of your assignment due December 11th at 2:30pm.

What is Time Capsule Reflection?

300

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?

300

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?

400

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)?

400

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?

400

This was the name of Sam's CSE 1012 device.

What is the Pill Popper?

400

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?

400

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?

500

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?

500

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?

500

This person won season 33 (the most recent season) of Dancing with the Stars. 

Who is Joey Graziadei?

500

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?

500

These are the three components to write a strong skills statement [on your resume].

What is Action Verb + Detail + Result?