Picking Your Courses
Don’t know which electives to take? Struggling between multiple sections? Get personalized advice from an upper year student on how to pick your courses!
The Ultimate Guide to Time Management – Part 2
Learn about project management tools you can use to improve your productivity and time management in part 2 of Sam’s blog post!
The Ultimate Guide to Time Management – Part 1
Curious about how to become more efficient with your time? Read Sam’s post to learn strategies on how to use online tools to maximize your time!
To the Class of 2026: Advice on Adjusting to Academic Learning at UBC
Read student reflections on academic preparedness, university success, and resources to help lay a strong foundation for academic learning at UBC.
Using Mind Maps: Visualizing Your Mind
Learn about mind maps and how they can be used as a creative, academic, and personal tool.
Things to Consider When Choosing a Major
Read about a student’s experience choosing a major and what questions helped guide their decision.
Study Apps & Tools for Final Exam Season
Discover apps and tools to support your learning and enhance productivity during final exam season.
Making the Most of Office Hours
Discover how the use of office hours, academic advice resources, and building rapport with professors can be beneficial to your academic career.
Zoom in Style: Best Places to Call on Campus
A guide to the best locations across campus to host Zoom meetings.
Hybrid Schedules: How to Get the Best of Both Worlds
Helpful tips and advice to help you learn while alternating between synchronous and asynchronous courses.
Ask Yourself: How do you Learn?
A blog post that begins to join the dots on how self-knowledge promotes learning, and how the Approach to Learning self-assessment helps that!
Choosing Courses at UBC Part 2: Considering Online Learning
Sanjana writes about her considerations of faculty requirements, accountability, time, and lecture format for online courses.
Choosing Courses at UBC Part 1: What Do I Want?
Lina lists out the factors she considers when choosing a course, starting with the course’s topic and instructor and her academic objectives.
What You Need to Know in May: Summer Events and Resources
Whether you’re kicking off a new semester, or kicking back to lounge in the sun, we’ve got resources to share with you!
Grades vs Educational Knowledge
Madeleine reflects on the difference between grades and knowledge, and why each is as important as the other.
All You Need for February: Tips, Reading Week and More
Check out our resources, events, and tips for succeeding during midterm season and celebrating reading week!
Why Keeping a To-Do List is a Good Idea
All work and no play makes for a sad to-do list – here’s how to make it better!
All You Need for January: Online Learning Tips & Guides
We’ve collected our best resources for getting set up for back-to-school season!
A Student Guide to Picking Classes
Learn more about how to pick the class that’s best for you!
How to Be More Productive With the Use of Technology
Are you looking for some new resources to boost your productivity? Click here for a list of applications that will help you on your learning journey!
Learn to write, write to learn
Here’s an insider secret: There’s no such thing as the “ideal writer” who can do every type of writing perfectly. If writing is intimidating to you, this is good news.
How to Excel at Teamwork
4 tips and tricks that will help you to work confidently and contribute ideas effectively while working in a team setting!
Switching modes and diluting cognitive overload
As students, we are in the midst of finals season and this can be a very stressful moment. Not to mention, we have other priorities that occupy our lives outside of academia. Individually, our priorities will differ but we all must maintain a level of focus and composure in other areas of our lives in […]
