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by Staff (updated September 01, 1999)
Print a copy of your DARS to see your degree progress, and bring this to your advising session.
Search the timetable before coming to an advising session and select courses you think you will need.
Use the four-year skeleton plan to prepare your program of study, prior to an advising session.
Have good reasons for wanting to take your selected courses.
Choose courses that you are not likely to drop.
Choose back-up courses, in case you are closed out of a particular course, fill courses and back-up on a time grid for the semester.
Attempt to fit possible courses into a time grid.
Take introductory departmental courses early in your program.
Talk about interests and careers with your advisor early in your program.
Keep your advisor informed about your long-range goals.
Become familiar with services provided by the Undergraduate Programs and Services Office, 116 Agriculture Hall (e.g. placement listings, interview schedules, scholarships, etc.)
Change your advisor if someone else in the department or college is working in your interest area and is available.
If you make appointments with your advisor, keep them or reschedule if you ca not. Do not be a no show.
Keep and frequently update a curriculum sheet and DARS audit.
Select an independent study project, special problem, departmental seminar, or coordinative internship sometime in your program.
Join a campus club – especially in your department.
Participate in departmental activities.
Stop in to see your advisor occasionally; ask questions; let your advisor know how you are doing.