What kinds of questions should I ask my advisor?
Advisors are very important people to your educational success. Each semester, there is often a regular meeting that you will have with your advisor and before you go in to meet with your advisor, always be prepared. That person is there to help you, but they also have many people that they need to meet with as well. So use the time wisely. To prepare, always go in with a list of questions. For instance, after reviewing your catalog and your course schedule for the next two, three of four years, your plan for graduation, continue to ask 'Am I on the right path for graduation?' Share with your advisor any new interests that may have come up and say perhaps there's a new course you would like to take. Maybe you even want to change your major and you want to just try that idea out with someone who has been there before and might know the answer. An advisor can also tell you what sorts of courses would be best for you to take if you are interested in a minor. Or the advisor also, can many times, make referrals for you to other areas in the college that can help you and answer other questions that maybe you want to know like 'What kinds of employment can I find with this degree'? or 'What sorts of volunteer jobs or jobs in the community can I do that can better help me to apply what I'm learning in the classroom to the real world'?
