First Year FIGS: Jessica

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  1. Thanks, Carol.
  2. How everyone?
  3. My name is Jessica.
  4. Accordingly, and I'm gonna talk a little bit about building
  5. your college network at a BU, you have the opportunity
  6. to meet a wide variety of new people, and we
  7. really encourage you to do so.
  8. One of the benefits of being a part of a
  9. fig is that it allows you to start building your
  10. relationships in college.
  11. Early on, we want to highlight three groups that will
  12. become part of your college network.
  13. The first group are the faculty, staff and academic advisers
  14. within your college who will either be your instructor in
  15. the course or who may make guest appearances.
  16. Building relationships with faculty and staff is important to not
  17. only your success at every you, but beyond.
  18. They're likely the people who you will be asking to
  19. write you a letter of recommendation or to be a
  20. reference for you for that summer internship and was only
  21. 25 students in the class.
  22. You will really have the opportunity to get to know
  23. them, and they will have the opportunity to get to
  24. know you.
  25. The second group of people you'll meet are the pure
  26. academic coaches or packs for short, the packs, their upper
  27. division, undergraduate and graduate students.
  28. There is one pack assigned to each big section, and
  29. that pack will attend your class every week.
  30. You'll also get the opportunity to meet with them individually
  31. outside of class.
  32. I'll speak more about those packs a minute.
  33. The third group you'll build connections with are your peers
  34. in the glass.
  35. The students in your class.
  36. It already share some similar interests with you and being
  37. in the same college, you're likely to share some additional
  38. courses. We hope that some of these relationships turn into
  39. friendships that extend well beyond this course.
  40. So now a little bit more about those packs.
  41. Here, you can see a few testimonials from students who
  42. were in your shoes not too long ago.
  43. Who had the opportunity to work with a pack their
  44. first year.
  45. So, as I mentioned are packed.
  46. Team consists of F A U students.
  47. These students have found success at FAA you, but that's
  48. not to say that it came easy to them.
  49. They really put in the hard work to develop strategies
  50. that would help them be successful like good time management
  51. and prioritizing.
  52. They're here to work with you to help you uncover
  53. your shrinks, some of which you may not have realized
  54. you had on to help you create your own personalized
  55. plan for success.
  56. And if you didn't get a chance to read through
  57. the student testimonials or if you can't see them all
  58. quickly read through a few of them.
  59. It just helped me a lot with college and how
  60. to approach it and knock it out of the park,
  61. which I appreciate it.
  62. It made me feel I had someone other than myself
  63. motivating and supporting me.
  64. He gave a lot of good advice on personal level.
  65. Since he was also a commuter student, he shared his
  66. experience and how to get involved.