Earlier this month we chatted with the SMUSA Pack Leaders during Welcome Week to find out their best advice to help first year students settle into Halifax. Here are their Top 30 Tips to get you through the year!
- If you’re lost, bus 4, 10, 14 or 29 will get you to campus
- Visit the Entrepreneurship Centre for advice and business resources
- Always stay tuned to your brightspace
- Get involved on campus
- Tim Horton’s is always very busy. Never expect to have enough time to stop by right before class
- Make friends in your classes so you can have study partners
- Write down assignments, midterm and final dates in your calendar
- You can get student discounts all around town
- Every student gets a bus pass. Make sure you pick it up, you never know when you’ll be stuck in a snow-storm
- Get some fresh air at Point Pleasant Park, it is just down the street from Saint Mary’s
- Remember to take some time for yourself
- Don’t forget to use your flex dollars
- Each professor has office hours, so make sure to stop by
- Go to SMU sporting events and wear your husky swag
- There’s a hair salon in Vanier Residence with great service
- There is free food at the SMU Community Food Room
- The Halifax Seaport Farmers Market is a nice place to go on a Saturday morning
- Midterms are just as important as your final. Make sure to study
- If you need help revising papers, check out the Writing Centre in the Burke Building
- The Husky Patrol is a safe way to get a ride home until 12:00 am
- Look into travel abroad opportunities
- There is trivia night every Wednesday in the Gorsebrook
- Every student gets a free gym membership at the Homburg Centre
- The Halifax Public Library is a great place to study
- There is a counselling Centre on the 4th floor of the SUB
- There’s a Math Help Centre in the Sobey Building with great student tutors
- Use SMUWorks to find job opportunities on and off campus
- Want to learn from SMU alumni?? Ten Thousand Coffees is a platform that connects students with alumni for career inspiring conversation
- There is 24-hour parking past the bridge on Tower Road
- Go explore downtown Halifax. There are so many coffee shops, restaurants, and stores to see