Student Academic Success Center https://www.une.edu/sasc The Student Academic Success Center (SASC) at UNE provides a range of services to students, with the goal of assisting them in becoming independent learners able to meet their own academic goals and the university’s standards. SASC provides individual and group tutoring services for students in almost all courses offered … [Read more…]
Photo by Jess Casey Hi, my name is Lizzy! I’m a first year student here at UNE and I’m studying psychology but changing my major to social work for next semester. I will be graduating in 2026 with my bachelors and masters due to my 4+1 program in social work. Going to college was definitely … [Read more…]
Photo by Lizzy Smith The University of New England is a friendly and remarkably successful school with endless opportunities and resources available to students on campus. This handbook is highly informative including information about four on campus resources as well as three major lessons that the authors have learned throughout their own college experience, and … [Read more…]
As we continue to move forward with this massive project, I feel really good about what my group and I were able to accomplish during Friday’s class. During the first twenty minutes we were able to compile all of the required components for our first check in into a shared google document which we will … [Read more…]
This chapter about groups and leaders provided a ton of useful information to help us as we begin working on our first group project. I found it really interesting that there was a consistent thread throughout the chapter, as well as the book itself, about how relationships are the key to everything regarding group work. … [Read more…]
During Friday’s class my team and I generated our team name and exchanged contact information so that we can easily collaborate outside of class during the upcoming weeks. Since Friday’s class I’ve generated a list of all the people I know who fit the criteria to be interviewees for this project. Next, I chose my … [Read more…]
There were several interesting and curious topics brought up throughout this chapter about communication in the workplace. At the very beginning of the chapter the authors talk about how and where we’ve developed a sense of what work is and what the workplace environment is like. I thought the idea of how we develop our … [Read more…]
I really enjoyed reading Nicolas Carr’s article and found it to be extremely relevant to life today despite being somewhat dated. One concept that came up repeatedly throughout the article was the idea that our brains learn to adapt with time and experience because of their plastic nature. Carr explains how this is applicable to … [Read more…]
Looking back on my lone wolf speech now that the final version has been presented to the class, I can say that it definitely went better than I expected. Going first, although stress inducing, ended up being a huge weight off of my shoulders and helped me to enjoy the rest of the speeches that … [Read more…]
