Success at Cambridge: For Undergraduate Freshers 2024
Transition well to studying at Cambridge: build the skills, mindsets and know-how
Cambridge is an intense and challenging environment, with particular, and sometimes unusual, expectations for academic work and ways of doing things.
This series offers:
- Deep dives into specific skills and practical mindsets that will help you study well here - from rhetoric to fast-reading, to building your ability to communicate well in supervisions. Mondays, Lent Term
- Goal -setting breakfasts- coffee and pastries provided! - to focus on your schedule, demands and tasks. Michaelmas and Lent Terms
It's all designed to help you thrive in your academic work, and beyond.
Deep Dive Sessions: Mondays in Lent, 7.30pm | |
Week 2 | Self-efficacy: autonomy & competence: Building effectiveness drawing on self-determination theory |
Week 3 | Reading effectively: skim, dive, synthesise: Learn to read academic texts critically, clearly and fast. |
Week 4 | Asking good questions: Thinking by asking effective questions (and knowing where to find answers) |
Week 5 | Rhetoric: (or, get your argument across): Essay structuring and tone |
Week 6 | Communicate well with yourself: Introducing embodied resilience and compassionate mindsets |
Week 7 | Communicate well with others (and make supervisions work for you): Skills in listening, emotional intelligence and effective conversations in groups |
Week 8 | Living in a community: thinking about belonging: Considering where you were, where you’re at now, where you want to go next and what actions you can take now to continue on this path |
Goal-Setting Breakfasts (with pastries, tea & coffee) | |
Michaelmas & Lent Weeks 2-8 | Tuesdays 8 - 9am Homerton JCR, Cavendish Building. |