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- My favourite thing about being a McMaster student is being
involved with the community.
- A positive attitude.
When you come into McMaster University,
be bold and courageous.
- This is a really, really short time in your life.
It goes really, really quickly
and you should try to enjoy every moment of it.
- You'll do great on your journey at McMaster.
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During your first week of lectures
with your professors and your TA's,
they'll inform you of the avenues of communication,
email, it could be online discussion forums,
and their availability for office hours.
I really recommend that you try and network
with them as soon as possible.
That's important to develop those partnerships
at McMaster University as soon as possible as you arrive.
The professors will inform you
on the avenues of communication.
I think, to start off with,
I always recommend students be formal.
It gives them great practice for their professional careers.
In any sort of online communications indicate
your full name, your student number,
what course that you're taking,
what is the concern or the question that you have for them
because many professors teach multiple courses
and that will best help them in helping you
and give you assistance.
When you see the course outline or your told
about the tasks that you have to do put it on your calendar.
Don't procrastinate, time manage.
Know that you have the ability to figure things out,
that you can adapt and there are plenty people here
at McMaster University, our resource centres,
administrators, advisors that are here to help you out.
- When I first started university,
I was still like in the summer welcoming mood.
Like as time passed, I ended up like being a school mood
and doing more work.
You're gonna see people doing a lot
of different things everywhere and I'd say
that you just have to what's best for you.
I made some really good friends.
And like if you're having problems academically,
like everyone's willing to help you which is nice.
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- Generally speaking, academic advisors are there
to assist students through their degree navigation
and planning at their time at McMaster.
So if a student has a problem or concern,
even just a question that they're not sure about,
with anything in regards to their studies at McMaster,
they should come to see their faculty advisor.
We're here to support you and help you.
And furthermore, everything that happens
in our offices is completely confidential.
I can't stress enough that it's important to
if you have any questions or you're concerned,
to step in and see the faculty advisor first.
When I think about success stories
and the things that I cherish,
I had a student come in and see me
and he was extremely homesick.
He left his country by himself,
his luggage got lost on the way here,
his first week he was really, really struggling.
I directed him towards some clubs and teams.
I got him involved in some of the programs
through the International Student Centre.
He decided to stay.
He was gonna go home.
He decided to stay after meeting with me.
And I was very, very proud of him for taking that step
and I think that--
He's still here, he's still working towards
his engineering degree.
So it's very rewarding when
we can help students in that manner.
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