UCLA CEED Toolbox
A Student’s Guide to Best Practices
Tips for Time Management
- http://chr.ucla.edu/news/top-10-tips-for-time-management
- Set Boundaries: Learn to say ‘no’
- “I’m sorry. I can’t do this right now.”
- Be firm-not defensive or overly apologetic-and polite.
- Set goals/milestones/priorities
- Establish good sleep/eating habits
- Work smarter, not harder: choose a schedule that works for you
- Includes exercise in time management
- Provides strategies on using time
- Suggests effective aids
- Support System
- Form study groups
- Persistence
Resources
- Attend office hours
- Utilize/leverage campus resources
- Engineering Tutoring by Tau Beta Pi
- CEED Structured Study Nights: 4th & 10th weeks
- Tri-Org Study Nights: Wednesdays, 6:00 pm, at The Center
- Wellness Resources: UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services
- Meet with your Faculty Mentor quarterly
- Undergraduate Mentor
- Participate in hands-on projects
- Engineering project clubs
- AISES Rocket Competition
- Ask for help
- CEED/Engineering Counselors
- UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services
- Communicate effectively
- Join Toastmasters(there are UCLA and local chapters)
- Seek personal and professional development
- Learn conflict resolution
- 360 degree feedback
- Emotional intelligence: self/social awareness
- Attend/participate in national conferences
- Learn patience
- Push yourself out of your comfort zone
- Apply what you learn by participating in team projects: problem solving
- Be involved and fully committed to a task or project
- Set an example and give back to the community
- Understand everyone’s strengths/weaknesses and organize teams with people that can compensate
- LinkedIn account — keep updated
- Social media scrub
- Keep a portfolio: resume, accomplishments
- Practice virtual interviewing
- Market yourself: create elevator pitch
- Professionalism in communications: proper writing, well-spoken, eye contact, avoid profanity, well-fitting and appropriate length clothes
Job Opportunities
Stay tuned! New Job postings will be available through the “Job Opportunities” tab, located in the “Undergraduate” menu.