ECS First Year Experience
WELCOME TO YOUR FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE!
Welcome to the College of 工程 and 计算机科学 (ECS) at California State University, 富勒顿! Your first year as an ECS student is an important one in which you have opportunities to make new friends, learn more about majors, join student organizations and participate in events across the college and campus. Learning to manage all your new responsibilities, courses and activities can be a difficult transition for many first-year students. 像这样, this section of the ECS website is dedicated to providing important information related to your first-year success.
You will find information on:
- 登记
- Student involvement and enrichment opportunities via TitanLink including events, organizations and news articles
- ECS major information and details
- ECS 院长办公室 Contacts
- 支持 & 服务 including scholarships and tutoring information
Please use this as a guide and resource while navigating your first year as an ECS student.
what should you expect?
In your first year you may find life is different in many ways:
- Freedom (and new responsibilities)
- 事物发展得更快
- Help is available – but you need to be proactive and get it
- You may end up spending more time on campus than expected
Your first year may feel overwhelming but it is important to know that ECS faculty and staff are committed to supporting all students, 包括你. Success in ECS begins with a positive first year transition in which each student has the ability to find and access the resources they need to do well in school.
For more information on what to expect in your first year, read below:
More on what to Expect
Freedom (and responsibilities)
for many students, the first big difference noticed is that they can do what they want. Students may no longer have parents telling them to get up, checking to see if they have finished homework, making them eat healthy, or imposing a curfew.
But with freedom comes responsibilities. 现在你需要:
- Get your homework done on time, Eat well enough to keep you healthy and alert
- Get enough sleep to function well the next day, and week
- Do the laundry (your roommate will appreciate it)
- Set aside time to study
- Manage time and deadlines
- Find time to relax and exercise
- Get yourself up for class
事物发展得更快
In the classroom, college moves quicker than high school. Professors speed through information much more rapidly than high school teachers, sometimes covering a new subject every week.
What that means for you is:
- You need to keep up with reading and homework – professors are not your parents, they won’t check on you
- You need to learn a lot more material for tests
- Even if you did well in high school, you need to learn how to study better, 更有效地, 否则你会迷路的
Help is available – but you need to be proactive and get it
- Professors have office hours and can meet by appointment. But you need to seek it out – you need to get to the help yourself
- 联系 ECS Student Success Center if you need help with your 学术, career, and personal development plans, or 学术 advising.
You may end up spending more time on campus than expected
CSUF结束了 375 clubs and organizations to suit a variety of interests and needs, 包括社会, 文化, 学术, 体育运动, 信仰, 社区服务, 和更多的. Clubs and organizations support the mission of the University by providing active involvement in co-curricular experiences. They also help to provide valuable leadership and organizational skill development opportunities. With so many opportunites to become an acitve member of the CSUF community, students want to stay on or near campus as much as they can. Even commuter students who live at home and drive to campus want to stay all day, to catch up on homework or just hang out on campus with friends.
