Berkeley Engineering

This week we are excited to have Tiffany Reardon, Associate Director for Retention Programs for Engineering Student Services, back to give us an update to what you can do to prepare for Berkeley Engineering this summer. Topics include: refreshing your math and other subject skills through test banks and watching Berkeley lectures; learning to code with free online resources; and work on your resume and LinkedIn – career fairs begin at the beginning of the semester.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. And like we promised last week, today we have a new guest, Tiffany Reardon, she is the Associate Director for Retention Programs for Engineering Student Services. Welcome to the podcast Tiffany! Tell us a little about yourself.

TIFFANY REARDON: Hi. Thank you so much for having me. My name is Tiffany Reardon and I work here at Berkeley in the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence and I run the PREP program and the T-PREP program and several of our scholars programs.

LV: Thank you again for joining us today. This week I wanted to give students some tips for getting ahead this summer and I know with your work you have quite a few tips about to make the most of their summer and how to be prepared for Berkeley Engineering. Do you have an overall theme of what students should be doing this summer to prepare?

TR: OK so that’s actually a great question. So I guess maybe it would be helpful. What to do and maybe what not to do. So what you should do is you should relax pace yourself. Get ready. You know if you’re relocating if you’re moving. Enjoy your summer.

At the same time be productive in your summer so be productive. There’s a number of resources free resources that you can take advantage of online that will help you prepare. Now as you mentioned all of our incoming students

Now that you know which courses you want to take your first semester, it is time to create your best schedule. When creating a schedule there are many factors to think about as you pick your class times and days. ESS’s Sharon Mueller, Director of Advising and Policy, and Kathy Barrett, Associate Director of Advising, join us for Episode 202: Tips to Create Your Best Schedule. They are here to discuss reserve caps, waitlists, shopping/dropping classes, how many courses to take, and time between classes.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer, we are in the second episode of our second season and I never thought I would say that about anything I was doing.

SHARON MUELLER: We got renewed!

KATHY BARRETT: They really like us.

LV: I’m so excited that we’re bringing new content to our new students. I’m your host, Laura Vogt, the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services and today I’ve been invited back, Engineering Student Services Director of Advising and Policy, Sharon Mueller and the Associate Director of Advising, Kathy Barrett. Welcome to the podcast!

SM: And we have to promise the students that we’re not going to be the same people every week. They will get to hear from other people.

LV: Today we’re going over scheduling and what a great schedule might look like. And I know not everyone’s great schedule is going to be the same. I like doing early morning classes and I know there’s a lot of people who don’t. But I think there’s some key factors that everyone should think about when doing their schedules. So let’s start off with during GBA, we’ve asked all of our students to do backup courses that we want them to have some backups. Why are we asking them for backups?

SM: Yeah it’s actually really important because on the day of enrollment all transfer students are enrolling the same day. And for freshmen all freshmen on campus are enrolling in the same day. So that means that space in classes is going to be changing really quickly. And so it

Welcome to the second season of the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. Our weekly summer podcast for our newest students, the incoming freshmen and transfers! For those that are new to the podcast, here’s a quick introduction. Engineering Student Services (ESS) wanted a way to communicate with students about important policies and procedures, events, deadlines, campus resources and first-person accounts of the College of Engineering and UC Berkeley. We decided a podcast would be a great way to make this happen.

Our topics this summer include how to plan your best schedule, financial aid, campus resources and interviews with professors and advisers on how to make your time as a Berkeley Engineer the best it can be.

Episode 201 is all about Golden Bear Advising (GBA), which some frosh have already started and the transfer students will be able to begin on June 13. Important links for our first episode are listed below. Please take a moment to listen in and find out more about why we’ve created GBA and how it will help you pick your first semester classes and get ready to enroll in your classes in July.  Remember freshmen should complete GBA by June 24 and Transfer students by July 1.

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LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. I’m your host Laura Vogt, the communications and events manager for Engineering Student Services and I’m very excited to be introducin

The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast has advice for freshmen, sophomores and incoming freshmen if they feel their current major is not the right fit. We cover what are the options, what is the process, who can students meet with to get more details and where can you find the information online.

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LAURA VOGT: Hi my name is Laura Vogt and I’m the communications and events manager for engineering student services in the College of Engineering. Welcome back for another week of the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley engineer. This week I’m excited we have Sharon Mueller and she’s going to go over what to do when you’re in the wrong major. As you’re doing your studies, you figured out that it’s not quite what you want to do, and we’re going to look at it in four different student types.

SHARON MUELLER: Yes. Yeah I think that’s probably the best way to approach it because a students approach is going to be very different based upon their current status.

LV: Sharon, I know you’ve been on the podcast before so let’s remind everyone who you are and what you do for us.

SM: I am Sharon Mueller and I’m director of advising and policy in engineering student services in the College of Engineering.

LV: Let’s start with, who’s going to be our first group that we want to look at.

SM: I