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Answers 11.15.18

Happy Week 7, Highlanders! Keep those questions coming! 

What happened to Savor Express? No idea, you should ask UCR Dining for all your dining questions! We are Undergraduate Admissions. 

Where are people getting the white cheddar mac and cheese from when it’s not on the menu at Savor? I recommend contacting UCR Dining for this question. They’ll definitely have the answer to your question. 

How can someone get involved or write for The Highlander?

I believe The Highlander posts open positions on the UCR Handshake portal if there is any currently available! 

Can I get a B in a class and still maintain a 4.0 GPA?

No, a B will drop your 4.0GPA. Getting a B is equivalent to a 3.0 with our UC grading scale. 

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Interested in joining the first Arab sorority at #UCRiverside? Follow the Empowered Arab Sisterhood (@easucriverside) & add their Fall Rush events into your calendar! Rush week kicks o off on Monday. #lifeatucr #epsilonalphasigma #mescucr (at University of California, Riverside)

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A Day in the Life Vlog | Keshav

Incoming students, if you'd like to see what a day in the life of a UCR student is like, our latest video is for you!

Checkout this Day in the Life Vlog by Keshav, a UCR Student and Life at UCR team member.

Video link: https://youtu.be/cmHH03CUIo0

Subscribe to the LifeatUCR YouTube channel for more!

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Resource Spotlight: UCR Career Center

Have you watched our new YouTube video on the UCR Career Center? 

The Career Center is a resource for our current students and alumni to guide them into their desired career path and get them that DREAM JOB! Watch the video and learn more!

Don’t forget to subscribe to the Life at UCR YouTube Channel!

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#TransferTuesday Guest Blog

Meet Marissa, a third year Transfer and Honors Business Student here at UCR. Keep reading to see how Marissa has grown here at UCR.  

UCR has been good to me. I’ve made friends; I’ve developed skills; I’ve endured through the challenges. Transferring is tough. I felt like I had to fit in with all the people that had been here since high school graduation. It took me a hot minute to be comfortable in such a different environment. There were struggles in the beginning. First of all the lectures are HUGE (what a wake up call); there are people EVERYWHERE (which is certainly intimidating when you don’t know any of them); and quarters are QUICK (10 weeks goes by a lot quicker than 17, trust me!). The thing is, though, there are so many others in your shoes and those who aren’t are willing to listen and help over some poke. University is way different from high school and community college, but it’s a good different. You’ll love it.

As I’m finishing up my second quarter at UCR, I have successfully maintained honors status, solidified a business development lead for a start up on campus, and undertaken some of the most rigorous, educational courses I could imagine. The opportunities are countless! You’re already out of your comfort zone as a transfer student, why not just push it a little farther to get the most out of it? It’s easy to network if you pretend to be confident. Before UCR I only had my mom on my LinkedIn account (that’s sad), and now I have been exposed to mentors and friends across the country who sincerely want to see me grow and develop in my business endeavors. Be proud of who you are, understand this is only the beginning, and be excited to grow and learn! UCR is the perfect place to do that.

Of course, I was nervous coming in, but it was a good nervous. And now that I’ve finally made it to a University, I’m happy it’s UCR.

Thank you Marissa for sharing your experience with us! 

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What's In My Bag | Highlander Edition

Have you checked out and subscribed to our Life at UCR YouTube channel yet? 

In our latest video, two UCR Highlanders should us what they carry in their bags! 

Life at UCR is a channel produced by students for students to show life at UCR. With student guest hosts and a student voice, join us to see UCR through R’perspective.

Interested in being a Guest Co-host? Submit a 30 second clip talking about “Your Favorite Spot on Campus” to [email protected] with your UCR email. Ongoing submissions accepted! Have questions/comments/suggestions? Email us: [email protected] 

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Attending a Career/Job Fair? Here are 5 Tips!

The UCR Career Center offers over 200 events on campus each year - ranging from career fairs, workshops, information sessions, and networking events for students. I just attended my first Finance, Accounting & Business Job Fair last week, and I’m not going to lie - it was overwhelming at first. So, here are five important tips for attending a career or job fair!

1. Attire

Dress to impress! You should wear business attire. Your outfit makes or breaks the first impression for the employers, before you even say a word.

2. Research

Do some research on the companies that will be at the fair, and the ones you especially want to network with. It will make it easier to network with them, allowing you to have topics to talk about so the conversation doesn’t get dull.

Also research the types of positions that they will be offering at their company. The Career Center will upload what positions are being offered (full-time, part-time, internships) on their website for the fair.

3. Resume

Bring a good amount of resume copies, about 10 to 15. Make sure your resume is updated with all of your latest information, positions, and achievements. The employers will talk to you about your resume, so you definitely want to make yourself stand out!

4. LinkedIn

Besides emails, a professional way to network is using LinkedIn. I recommend having a completed LinkedIn profile, as many representatives will tell you to add them on LinkedIn. It’s basically a Facebook for professionals!

5. Practice

Like anything in life, practice makes perfect! If you’re a second year, I recommend to start going to these career/job fairs early. Although their isn’t many positions available for students who are first and second years, it will help you with your networking skills.

Going in as a second year, you’re able to show employers and representatives that you’re driven and motivated. This can potentially lead them to offer you a position in the future.

Those are top five tips for anyone attending a career or job fair. For more information on when these fairs are happening, check out the UCR Career Center’s website.

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How to Manage Your Time & Stay Organized!

Life at UCR writers share their tips on balancing school, work, and life at UC Riverside. 

Keshav:

My #1 go-to tool for organizing my life is my iPhone. Personally, using apps on my phone works best for me because it’s something I always have on me. If I were to use a planner of some sort, I probably wouldn’t have it with me when I’m out and about, which is why I find my phone to be the best tool for organizing my calendar, to-do lists, and more. My favorite apps for organizing my life are Clear and Google Calendar.

Clear: This is a to-do list app that is very intuitive and clean. It helps me organize my life with different lists, and in these lists there are my to-do list items. I have four different lists - Personal, School, Work, Home. When school is in session, I organize all my upcoming assignments in my School list, and I order them with their due dates. The app also has a feature for reminders, but I prefer to use Google Calendar for reminders.

Google Calendar: I am not really a fan of the stock iPhone calendar app. I use Google Calendar for all events and reminders in my life, and I prefer its interface and simplicity. One feature I always like to use is location - which tells me what I time I should leave for an event, based on traffic data generated by Google Maps. There is a neat feature on R’Web that allows us UCR students to transfer our class schedule to Google Calendar, and this also adds the location, time, and everything else for the quarter. It’s so awesome and it just works! Lastly, I use the widget for Google Calendar, and that makes it easy to get a glance at what’s next in my day.

Syncing with iCloud: I’d say I’m definitely somewhat of a technology geek. I love it when apps sync with my iPhone and Mac, and it just makes me feel like I’m in 2017 (haha). With Clear, I’ve also bought the Mac version which sync via iCloud whenever you add, complete, or delete a task/reminder. This makes my life so much easier when I’m working on my computer and I won’t be getting distracted on my phone. With Google Calendar, I use the stock Mac Calendar app and linked it to my Gmail account, which in return gives me notifications on my laptop as well - even for traffic!

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Reminders App: This application is super helpful to plan my life. Since its on my phone, which is always with me, I can easily plan my day the night before and check off the to do list as I go about my day. Moreover, checking off items on my to do list makes me feel like I am being productive, which in turn motivates me to accomplish other tasks on my to do list!

Planner: While the app allows portability and efficiency, I use it more as a day to day tool. In order to plan my months, I use a planner. My planner is very detailed and outlines all the important dates ranging from exam dates to friends’ birthdays. Furthermore, I also color code my different involvements so that I do not get confused between the different activities I am involved in. For example, I would use purple for academic dates and yellow for my job. Being a visual learner, I also appreciate being able to see my life from month to month. This way I can also determine if I am accomplishing my long term goals and make sure that I am not double/over booking myself.

Overall, the key to successful planning for me depends on three main things: simplicity, routine and adaptability. Since I only use two methods of planning/organization, it is key to keep them simple so that I have time to plan even when life gets super hectic. In addition, rather than being confused in a convoluted system, a simple system ensures that I will stay dedicated to plan. Secondly, by making planning a part of my routine, it ensures that I always have time to plan. Next, since this planning system works for me, I can have fun with it and even be excited to plan!

Caylin

For me, the only thing that works even remotely for me is a tangible, printed planner. My weapon of choice is a Passion Planner, and I don’t think there is any other planner out there that works so well with my mindset. I am currently double majoring, have two jobs, and do custom art orders on the side- all of that paired with regular cases of anxiety makes for a lot of chaos in my schedule. My Passion Planner helps me in creating and tracking my goals along with keeping order in my day to day life by helping me manage my schedule, tasks, and thoughts. 

Month Overview: Because I love the structure of Passion Planner and the flexibility of bullet journals, I use an undated Passion planner (mine is the Lavender Bliss undated) and use the first two spreads at the beginning of a month to add blank pages, where I add an expense tracker, habit tracker, and mood tracker. I also design each month to have a single color accent (this month is blue!) I use all of the above to keep track of my spending, lifestyle, and academic habits and see how they are correlated with my mood. This part is kind of useless lol but I genuinely enjoy this part of planning my month. 

Weekly Overview: The most beneficial part of this planner for me is that it is broken up per half hour starting from 6:00 am to 10:30 pm. This allows me to plan out time for exercise, both jobs, study time, meetings, classes, deadlines, and everything else you can think of! The weekly layout also includes modules titled This Week’s Focus, Today’s Focus, Personal To-Do List, Work To-Do List, and my favorite- Space of Infinite Possibility, where I put a motivational quote or self assuring reminder to help me get through the week. 

I don’t know what it is about having to right things down, but if I forget my Passion Planner or forget to write something down, I will literally forget it within seconds lol. For all of the things I have running through my head, Passion Planner lets my organize my thoughts in a really structured and creative way while giving me the flexibility to adjust the layouts and designs as needed.