HONORS: TIPS AND

TRICKS
 Make an Honors folder

• A place on your computer just for Honors

• Why Honors Essays
• Competency Exploration Essays
• Reflection Drafts
• Makes it easier to find documents when you need them in
375 and 475
 Stay On Track

• Easy to fall behind when not in an

Honors class
• Try to start at least one experience each
semester
• Make yourself a schedule
• Don’t want to get to 375 and realize you
have nothing to write your reflections
on
Permission for Honors
Classes
• Required to register for honors courses
• Do it before your registration date
• Online, easy to fill out
• Usually, sent out in newsletter and put
on D2L before class registration starts
 Look at the Newsletter
• Sent out every week
• Keep up to date on all things Honors
• Great place to find competency experiences
 • Very easy to forget what you did
• Writing a reflection is hard when
you can’t remember the
Write Down experience
• Write down what you did, when
Your you did it, what you learned
Experiences • Could keep this in:
• Notebook
• Notes app
• Word document
• Portfolio
• Reflection draft
 Keep Your Portfolio
Up To Date

• Not required when not in an Honors

class, but it is nice to go through your
portfolio at the beginning of every year
and update anything that may have
changed
• Ex: year in school, major, added a
minor, etc.
• Publish every time you change something