This calendar contains the dates and times of all orientation meetups, important academic deadlines, and several accessibility/student life workshops throughout the summer.
For more information on available student life and accessibility programs and workshops visit the U of T Student Life website.
Using the Medicine Wheel, learn ways to find motivation and manage procrastination.
- Explore your relationship to and experience of procrastination and motivation.
- Learn ways to interrupt the procrastination cycle.
- Identify holistic strategies and actions to implement and sustain new habits.
You will need your UTORID and U of T email to register and access this workshop. If you haven’t already done so, get your UTORID and TCard set up here.
Explore effective strategies to prepare for exams while maintaining a healthy work-life balance:
- Develop key study strategies to successfully prepare for finals.
- Build a study plan that balances your competing priorities.
- Learn ways to build rest and restoration into your study plan.
Explore effective strategies to prepare for exams while maintaining a healthy work-life balance:
- Develop key study strategies to successfully prepare for finals.
- Build a study plan that balances your competing priorities.
- Learn ways to build rest and restoration into your study plan.
This is part 1 of a 3 part workshop series where we will use evidence-based learning strategies and mindfulness practices to help you settle and focus your mind, create an intentional approach to how you navigate text, and develop strategies for deep reading. During this first workshop, you will join Victoria Sheldon and Benjamin Pottruff, Learning Strategists from Academic Success, to discuss and practice strategies to increase confidence and reduce procrastination when reading. Topics covered during this session will include:
- Recognizing and understanding mind-wandering
- Identifying “thinking traps” related to reading
- Building confidence as a reader
Explore effective strategies for breaking down test and assignment prep into manageable steps:
- Understand how to apply active study strategies to prepare for tests.
- Learn how to decode an assignment and plan for success.
- Know the difference between planning and doing your work (and how you can manage both).
This is part 2 of a 3 part workshop series where we will use evidence-based learning strategies and mindfulness practices to help you settle and focus your mind, create an intentional approach to how you navigate text, and develop strategies for deep reading. During this second workshop, you will join Victoria Sheldon and Benjamin Pottruff, Learning Strategists from Academic Success, to discuss how to utilize skimming and skipping strategically and mindfully in your reading practice. Topics covered during this session will include:
- Exploring the difference between focused attention and open monitoring mindfulness techniques
- Recognizing and gaining awareness of different reasons for skipping and skimming
- Identifying what to strategically skip and skim, while maintaining your learning
- Variants of common reading strategies in order to support choices around skimming and skipping
Using the Medicine Wheel, learn ways to find motivation and manage procrastination.
- Explore your relationship to and experience of procrastination and motivation.
- Learn ways to interrupt the procrastination cycle.
- Identify holistic strategies and actions to implement and sustain new habits.
This is part 3 of a 3-part workshop series where we will use evidence-based learning strategies and mindfulness practices to help you settle and focus your mind, create an intentional approach to how you navigate text, and develop strategies for deep reading. During this third workshop, you will join Victoria Sheldon and Benjamin Pottruff, Learning Strategist from Academic Success, to discuss how to read and consume academic content in a digital world. Topics covered during this session will include:
- Consider mindfulness as a response to disembodied learning
- Understand how reading in a digital age has fragmented our information intake to screen reading, watching videos, and listening to podcasts
- Investigate how different digital media have an impact on how we comprehend information
- Discuss strategies and mindful approaches for academic learning in each digital medium (audio, video, text)
Explore effective strategies for breaking down test and assignment prep into manageable steps:
- Understand how to apply active study strategies to prepare for tests.
- Learn how to decode an assignment and plan for success.
- Know the difference between planning and doing your work (and how you can manage both).
Discover some of the most important tools you will use throughout your academic career: engineering problem-solving, time-management skills, note-taking skills and effective teamwork strategies. You will also hear advice from professors, learning strategists and upper-year students about academic expectations and have the opportunity to activate your U of T accounts and take an optional tour of the Engineering buildings after enjoying a free lunch.