welcome back to the back to school series in today's video i'm going to speak about
how to prepare for a new school year hopefully i might give some solid advice
that's going to help you um in terms of preparing for new school year especially if you're going to
be doing your first year this year um i think these tips will help you in terms of managing
you know your anxiety and your stress levels and stuff like that so the first i'm going to
organize this video firstly i'm going to speak about organization then i'm going to speak
about the academic side of things and then i'm going to speak about the personal or lifestyle
side of things so for organizations your laptop um i think i did say this i have another video
that i did i'm going to link it up above about this back to school essentials that
you need so for station you need to have your laptop you need to have a smartphone
and you need to have apps downloaded i think this will be good in terms of preparation so that you
can get there you already have all the things you need you need to have microsoft teams downloaded
on your laptop you have to have zoom downloaded on your phone or your laptop you have to download the
uct app the mobile app it's really good you use it for like your health check to get into the jammies
which is the shuttle system and to get into things like the library or venues
um you have whatsapp where you can be on student groups and you can chat to people
who are doing the same course as you so make sure you have those things in place already
um and then to move on to the academics you need to be registered obviously um if you are
first year i think that there's like a long period like during orientation where you can
like get registered and choose your courses and stuff like that but for the other years i think
like we obviously don't have orientation because we kind of already know how everything works so
just make sure you know that information you have that information on hand and then most importantly
go through the handbooks um especially if you need to get clued up on what's going to happen
read the emails that your university sends to you go through the handbooks for
your degree to make sure you know how many credits you need um to know how many courses you need
to do you know if you are doing your majors to know if you are able to choose your courses in
your major make sure what courses go with what courses which courses you can't take together
which courses like will clash well this year i think we're allowed to take uh courses like
class make sure you have that information on hand um and then this is very important review if you
have the time review what you learned last year this is obviously if you aren't in first year i'm
in the humanities faculty i'm doing a bachelor's of science majoring in politics and portuguese and
law as well hopefully um you know you're going to be learning most of the information like
it's going to be new information but if you are in your second year this year or 30 or whatever
review what you learned the last year review how to reference properly try to like review them not
like everything obviously just like the main stuff so if you do politics like i would need to maybe
review the information that i know is going to be used all the time like a basic question what is
politics like politics is the art of government uh politics is power whatever that is i need to know
those things that's a basic information so i would review that go over that make sure i am prepared
and then also if you're moving to cape town for the first time or this is your first time going
to like the uct campus wherever that is have your google maps out have your google earth out figure
out where exactly your residence is even if you are going to be driven there but just to get like
a feel a general feel of where you are or where you need to be but i am just like an over planner
i think i don't know i always like to make sure i know where i'm going i think an important part is
to set goals for the year especially if you are not like like not in first year and you
already know kind of what you're genera where your marks are generally and you want to keep
on that same wavelength make sure that you sit set goals for the year what you want to achieve
in this course or you know stuff like that i think it's important for yourself just to keep yourself
motivated and then for the last part of the video which is about lifestyle and stuff like that
so if you are going to be living in a self-catching race i think it's very important
like right now if there are some things that you like to eat but you don't know how to cook
them please learn how to cook them before you go to university so that you don't struggle
especially if you live in another province and you can't just go home quickly for the weekend
or whatever learn how to cook everything you need to cook try out some new recipes at home before
you get there so that you're not just ordering food every day and the next thing is your budget
wherever if you are going to be sponsored by nsfest or if you if your parents give you an
allowance or if you have a bursary whatever money you get it's very important to be able to handle
it correctly if you need to save for something or if you want to make sure that you are
spending your money wisely when you are in first year to put aside more money than you usually
would for like going out and stuff like that because you want to meet other people like if
someone asks you god for like drinks or whatever you want to have um the money for that so i think
i would dedicate a bit more money than usual to going out and stuff but then for the rest of the
months make sure that your your budget is balanced there's a really good excel spreadsheet that i use
for budgeting um i will probably probably put a comment down in the comments um for the link to
that if you want that and there's also a video um that explains how to use that i find it like
really good lastly i would suggest that you set up a good study space workspace just to
keep yourself motivated and like personally i don't like to have a cluttered desk space i
tried it in like the first few months where i had so much on my desk and i just couldn't
concentrate adhd i couldn't concentrate um so i had to take everything off my desk and just have
the essential things that i need so make sure you set up a study workspace print out some
pictures if you'd like to some posters print up some like coursework stuff if you'd like to put
it on your pin board the residences don't have comfortable chairs so if you want to bring like
extra pillows um for your chair please do that anything that's going to make your studying
more enjoyable um these are the best tips that i have in terms of how to get
ready to go back to school start a new school year if you even fresh out of high school or if
you're fresh out of a gap year like i did i do a gap year i was an exchange student in brazil
um so yeah i think these are some solid solid tips if you have any more tips please comment
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going to have more videos coming in this back to school series and i'm going to link the playlist
in the cards if you'd like to watch all of those videos if you'd like to watch my videos from first
year as well i will link that in a card thank you so much again and i'll see you in the next video
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