Success at Cambridge: For Undergraduate Freshers 2024

Transition well to studying at Cambridge: build the skills, mindsets and know-how

12:00, 31 October 2024 - 17:00, 14 March 2025
Homerton College

Cambridge is an intense and challenging environment, with particular, and sometimes unusual, expectations for academic work and ways of doing things.  

This series offers: 

  1. 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
  2. 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.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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