Issue 5: March 12, 2009

Issue 5: March 11, 2009

In This Issue:

Spring Break Health & Safety Tips
Fall Course Registration
Changing Your Major
Stress Management
Can You Afford That Spring Break?
Spring Jam 2009
Homecoming 2009

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Your Health & Wellness
Spring Break Health & Safety Tips
Are you taking a spring break trip to escape the Minnesota winter? Check out these health and safety tips provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.cdc.gov/family/springbreak/.

Your Academics
Fall Course Registration
Registration for Fall semester begins April 9. Make sure you are prepared to register for your classes by visiting One Stop’s registration checklist.
http://onestop.umn.edu/registration/prepare/checklist.html.
You can also find your registration time and search for Fall semester courses conveniently at www.onestop.umn.edu.

Changing Your Major
Are you thinking of changing your major or your college of enrollment? Each college has its own policies and procedures for changing majors. To make you follow the correct steps visit http://onestop.umn.edu/degree_planning/changing_college_or_major/index.html.

Stress Management
With papers due, campus activities happening and midterms just around the corner, students across campus are beginning to feel stressed out. Check out resources on the University Counseling and Consulting Services website for information on identifying and dealing with your stress.
http://www.mentalhealth.umn.edu/stressmgmt/index.html

Your Finances
Can you afford that spring break trip?
Financial aid is intended to cover a very modest student lifestyle, including only the basics: tuition and fees, room and board, books, and a small amount for personal expenses such as clothing, haircuts, an occasional movie or dinner out. Financial aid is NOT intended to pay for a spring break trip. If you want to go on a spring break trip with your friends, look carefully at your budget and think about how you can cut costs in other areas to help pay for your trip without borrowing money or using a credit card, as then you will pay for the trip and the interest for the money borrowed.

Consider this....

You spend $750 on a spring break trip on your credit card (15% interest rate), and you can only afford to make a required minimum amount payment of $15 dollars a month. It will take you six and a half years to pay off your trip, and you will have paid $434 dollars additional in interest. That spring break trip now cost you almost $1,200!

Find more information on spending responsibly, and managing your finances by visiting the money management section of the One Stop Web site.
http://www.onestop.umn.edu/finances/manage_money/index.html.

Your Engagement
Spring Jam 2009: Rockin' the Playground, April 20-25
Celebrating the warm weather and the end of the school year, Spring Jam is the largest student-planned, campus-wide event during spring semester at the University of Minnesota. Spring Jam is planned by a student committee and includes events such as a block party, ballyhoo dance competition, band competition, sports competitions and more. Competition registrations open March 23rd, all students are encouraged to participate!
http://www.springjam.umn.edu

Homecoming 2009: The Ultimate Homecoming, October 4-11
The Homecoming committee is hosting a 5k Walk / Run on April 19th, 2009 at 10:10am to kick-off Homecoming 2009. Both registration for the 5k and Homecoming Royalty opens on March 23rd.
http://www.homecoming.umn.edu