1. Go to all GSI sections, find which GSI is most helpful for you
2. Take initiative and put yourself out there to join a study group with your friends/peers - then you can divide and conquer problem sets and teach each other how to do them.
3. Enroll in more courses to find which teacher is the one you like most - there were a ton of teachers for quantum, they all have their own things they care about for grading weights
4. Don’t worry about GPA - it is just a number and employer’s don’t care - they care about the degree and the school
5. Apply to jobs early on - see what’s out there that you like and ask employers what they want in a strong candidate
6. Know what you want in a job/career
7. Do something you enjoy every day - even during finals: for me, bike riding and having a nice dinner with my family.
8. Last year was my favorite - it’s when you do experiments and give presentations and everything that you learned starts to come together (heat and mass transfer, distillation, thermo, process design, chemical reactor design, boundary layers - being able to answer the question: why? Why does mass transfer? Concentration gradient. Why does energy move? Temperature gradient.