On September 25th, I had my first meeting with the Academic Advisement office. Ms. Brown, my advisor, was assigned to me by a program I am apart of at Baruch called the Success Network. She reached out to me a few weeks ago and within a few days, we had our meeting.
Before going to the meeting, I had to print out a copy of my DegreeWorks audit. I looked it up and found out that it’s a worksheet that tells you the courses you’ve already taken and the courses you need to take in order to graduate with a certain major.
When we finally met, the advisement session went great. We sat down and talked about the courses I needed to take next semester in order to be eligible to enter in the Zicklin School of Business. She showed me three classes that she strongly recommends and gave me another pool of five classes from which I have to pick two.
The session was better than I expect because I thought my advisor was going to be so extremely busy and stiff that she would simply rush the session along. However, she was really nice and took the time to clear up some confusions I had about switching majors and other issues related to my major.
In the end, I was very glad I went to this session. Registration for Spring ‘18 opens up soon and I was glad I was able to meet with someone before the wave of students eventually come in. Also, I’m glad I was able to tell my friends about it and they were able to get advisement for the upcoming semester as well.
– Ardouin
Ardouin,
You definitely beat the rush of students that always come with each registration session!
Academic Advisement really is great and it’s good that you got everything laid out for you; sometimes it can get confusing with all these requirements and such!
It’s also nice that you recommended the center to your friends as well!
Also, hope you’re enjoying Success Network.
-Lea