Smart things to do to prepare for your university course

It is very common for students around the world to join universities and choosing a course without thinking much about it and later regretting the rash decision. You definitely don’t want to be part of this multitude. The consequences of rash decisions are not always appealing. There are four activities I would advise you to partake before settling on the course.
1. Get career Advice
We underestimate professionals and consultants but these people are very important and spending time or even a few coins for their services might save us from a myriad of pitfalls. When it comes to choosing your career path, it is very advisable to get hold of a career professional and get their insights in relation to what you want to pursue. They can tell you about the job market, lifestyle, workload and working environment of your career. You can also talk to professors and lectures during campus visits and learn about your course workload. With this essential information, you will be equipped to make a sound decision
2. Replace a professional for a day
You want to be a doctor, why don’t you try being a doctor for a day. Utilize the connections you have with people and get into contact with successful people in your profession. Ask them to give you a one-day internship as a worker so that you can experience the profession. You could work as a nurse in a hospital or a waiter in a hotel, anything, as long as you get real time experience of your aspiration. Of course, it might not work for some like surgeon aspirants but you can be given a chance to watch a surgery. This experience will open your eyes and you will feel even more connected to your dreams
3. Attend a real lecture
Talk to friends who are currently in college pursuing your dream course, or if not, let them connect you to their friends who do so and tell them to organize for you time to attend one or two of their lectures. For instance, engineering aspirants can attend a calculus lecture (hyped to be tough) and witness its simplicity and complexity. Don’t be scared if they are learning technical stuff, they didn’t learn all that in one day. BTW, I can promise you, if you ask a question over the topic you were in for, most of them will have no clue. College academics are peculiar, remind me to tell you about that later. So, these lectures will give you a clue of what you will be studying in the next 4, 5, or even more years.
4. Read for exposure
Education is a continuous process and the world with all its people can never exhaust it. Learning never hurts, in fact, it makes you more informed. Go to the library and get those big books that cover your dream course. Read a bit, you don’t have to write notes or even finish a chapter, go through the pictures, imbibe some insights, capture historic information like the inventor of computer Charles Babbage. This activity will open your mind and introduce you to new ideas, you will have information that your fellows will not have when you join college and they might never catch up with you. Get comfortable with the technical aspects you will have to encounter in your course. I promise you will be a totally different scholar after partaking in this activity.
There you go folks, four basic but crucial things to do before campus, don’t ignore the opportunity to do them. You will never regret the decision you will make after these activities.
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