Salutations Day
Welcome!
PSEO Student Association
❖ Registered student group
❖ Goal: enhance the PSEO experience!
❖ Social events open to all PSEO students
➢ Movie Night
➢ Holiday Party
➢ MOA Scavenger Hunt
❖ Academic resources
➢ Course reviews
➢ Ask PSEOSA
PSEOSA - Where to find us
❖ Facebook: PSEOSA
➢ PSEO group
❖ Website: PSEOSA.com
❖ Twitter: @UMN_PSEOSA
...and look for our emails on the PSEO listserv!
High school vs. college,
myths, academic pointers
High School vs. U of M
VS.
❖ No one knows you’re PSEO!!!
❖ Resources don’t come to you - you have to find them
➢ Make an effort to know the professor
❖ More freedom/time in between classes
❖ No lunch (& no free/subsidized lunch from the Office)
❖ Classes move faster - in the good & bad ways
Classes/Study Tips
❖ Study! (no … really)
➢ Cramming during midterms/finals is possible in some classes, but not for most
➢ Review notes, powerpoints, etc. incrementally
➢ Take good notes and stay awake! In smaller classes, teachers will notice if you’re not.
❖ Midterms/Finals
➢ Hard, but not impossible
➢ A shared trauma that brings us all closer together!
❖ Office hours scary, but they do help.
❖ Make sure you’re fulfilling HS requirements
Classes
❖ Missing class
➢ Always bring a doctor’s note
➢ When absent: check the Moodle page
➢ Classes are cool!
❖ Class sizes
➢ Small(ish) - more like HS
■ About 20 students
➢ Large - lecture hall-style
■ Typically w/ smaller discussion groups with TA
➢ At the U, you normally have a combination of both
❖ TAs & Professors
➢ TAs are more approachable, and have more office hours
➢ Professors can be elusive, but love to talk about their subject
Sometimes, professors wear
awesome costumes!
(Prof. Kelvin Wong, Econ 1101)
If you need help…
❖ Go to office hours. The longer you wait, the more there’ll be to
explain (& the longer the line)
❖ Google/Khan Academy/Wikipedia/Asking your classmates is
always a good resource
❖ Go to the department website or Moodle for tutoring room times
➢ Google “[department name] U of M TC tutoring room
hours”
➢ A bunch of grad students that help you for free!
❖ Talk to us! Odds are, one of us has taken that class, too.
Food, Study Spaces
Food
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Coffman
Blegen
Stadium Village
Dinkytown
7 Corners
Coffee <3
❖ Caribou
❖ Starbucks
❖ Other various coffee shops
Study Spaces
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Coffman
Wiley
Libraries
Moos
Lind
The Cube
Relationships with People
Professors/ TA’s
❖ Office Hours
❖ Recommendation Letters
❖ TA’s usually more important than professors
Clubs
❖ Everyone should join a club
❖ Clubs for anything
❖ If not, make one
Social Life on Campus
❖ Almost always something going on, somewhere
❖ Make 3 friends in every class
➢ Don’t be embarrassed of saying you’re a PSEO kid
❖ Plan weekly outings/ get togethers
Transportation
Driving
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Parking Ramps and garages
$4
Weisman Art Museum Garage
TCF Stadium
Church Street Garage
East River Road Garage
University Avenue Ramp
Busing
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Lots of options
http://www.metrotransit.org/
UPass ($100)
Bus stops scattered around Campus
Connector
❏ 123- East Bank Circulator
❏ 122- West Bank Circulator
❏ 121- All Campuses
Train/ Light Rail
❖ Northstar (Big Lake-Target Field)
❖ Metro
➢ Blue Line
■ Target Field- MOA
➢ Green Line
■ Target Field - St. Paul
➢ Red Line
■ MOA- Lakeville
Biking/Walking
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Nice Ride Program
Bike Lanes on the road and sidewalks
BEWARE OF BIKERS
Big campus, walking takes time
Skateboard, Longboard, Scooters, Rollerblades
Questions?