How to Get the Most of University?

University life is challenging, especially for first-year students. Do you want to get the most out of
university and enjoy your university journey? Here are some useful resources
and tips to help you get through university.

**Time**
management

'*Kruse, Kevin.*15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management: the Productivity Habits
of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239
Entrepreneurs*. Philadelphia, The Kruse Group, 2015.'*

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Successful-People-Management-Straight/dp/0985056436

With a heavy course load or even a job, many
students find it difficult to manage time efficiently. In order to be
successful in university, it is important to know some tips on how to make the
best use of time.

Kevin Kruse, NY Times Bestselling
author, recommends 15 tips for effective time management in this book. He
interviews billionaires, Olympic athletes and top students such as Mark Cuban,
Kevin Harrington, James Altucher to find the secrets to their success. Also
based on a large number of survey research, he concludes some key points to
increase productivity and manage time most efficiently such as getting enough
sleep and relaxation, focus on short-term tasks first and set specific goals,
which are helpful for university students with lots of assignments and
readings. Generally speaking, it is a reliable source that contains sufficient
data of successful
people, which can help you learn from their experiences and manage time better.

**Getting**
good grades

**“10**
Tips for Getting Good (or Better) Grades | Quintessential LiveCareer.”*Quintessential LiveCareer*,
www.livecareer.com/quintessential/getting-better-grades.

https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/getting-better-grades

Are you stressing out because your
grades have dropped a lot compared with high school? Everyone at U of T used to be straight A students
in high school, getting good grades in university seem to be the most stressful
thing, especially when  the courses are challenging and everyone seems so outstanding.

Randall
Hansen, Ph.D. and a professor at Stetson University, has spent a couple of
years of refining his ideas and offered 10 tips on getting better grades. These
tips include stay organized, use time wisely, attend all your classes, follow
good rules of writing, etc. Under each tip, he gives specific details and
examples in terms of how to apply those tips to real life. For instance, when
it comes to stay organized, he suggests using a planner and keep homework,
tests, class papers in central location, which makes it clearer what you should
do in order to stay organized. Since he works as a professor for more than 15
years and knows the struggles of university students, it is a pretty reliable
source on giving suggestions on academic success.

**Extra-curricular**
activities

**“U**
Of T Co-Curricular Record - Home.” *University of Toronto - Co-Curricular Record - Home*, ccr.utoronto.ca/home.htm.

https://ccr.utoronto.ca/home.htm

Study is important, but your university
life needs some colours too! Explore some extra-curricular
activities!

This Co-Curricular Record site is an
official website of U of T, providing students with various resources about all
kinds of opportunities available on campus from athletics and recreation to
leadership opportunities. The opportunity directory function enables you to
select as many filters as you want and then search for opportunities and
organizations in the CCR database. For instance, if a student at Rotman
Commerce selects UTSG, Business, Economics, and Entrepreneurial, and Before 5
p.m., two results pop out, which are Income Tax Clinic and Rapid Launch, Career
Centre. It also provides you with detailed information in terms of application
process, available position and requirement. In words, it is an official website with solid
database to support the recommendations of a variety of extra-curricular
activities and organizations on U of T campus.

Final.