How’s it going?

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  If you’ve been relaxing and taking it easy, it’s time to focus on what you signed up for. It’s week three already. It’s so easy to lose track of time when you're having fun. A few timely questions:
  
  Are you attending all classes?
  

This is an important question because there is a clear link between attendance and results. Your success is likely to depend on you knowing what is emphasized in your lectures and other classes, your support networks: the people you know .

What else? You might need to get organised.

• Have you mapped out all your assessment tasks on a study planner?
• Have you compared assignments to see where the weighting is in terms of workload and marks?
• Have you thought about how you’re going to manage study and your job in those very busy weeks? Do you need to speak to your boss now?
• Have you put the due dates into your diary?
• If you are doing group assignments have you scheduled your planning meetings?
• If you have major exams, are you already organising your notes, readings etc into themes/topics that will be easy to revise?

There’s a lot to do and good people around you to do it with. But if organisation and networking aren'treally your thing, explore the links to resources. You might find one or two useful hints that will help you make it all more fun and more successful.

All the best,

Helen