September
In your final Welcome Week as an LSE undergraduate, you may have volunteered to help new students or might be representing your Club or Society recruiting new members. You may be taking part in the events and activities on campus or you might have had enough after the first two years! Even if you didn't join any Clubs, Societies or volunteering programmes in your first years here, you can still do so now.
You may have sorted your accommodation over the summer, but if not the LSESU Advice team and University of London Housing Services (ULHS) can give you advice and answer any questions you might have. ULHS can do contract checks and have a bank of available properties to search through.
Opportunities for paid work are available all over London. The School and Students' Union will also recruit for student staff in Michaelmas Term.
If you have a disability and haven't done so already, get in touch with the Disability and Wellbeing Service to discuss adjustments and plans for your study in your final year. If you have been in touch, make sure they're up to date with any new information.
Graduate internship applications open at various times through the year, so you if you're hoping to join an internship programme after you graduate, you should take some time to find out when the companies you want to apply to open their processes so you can plan applications into your schedule.
October, November, December
You should now have a full timetable and understand the deadlines for any work you'll be asked to submit.
You'll meet with your Academic Mentor and can book appointments with any of LSE's services if you're interested in extra support in building your skills. LSE LIFE and LSE Careers run full programmes and it's likely your department will also have extra curricular activities you can attend. Your teachers will run Office Hours.
If you are undertaking a dissertation or research project, you should start planning your time early and understand your department's deadlines and available support as soon as you can.
You may decide to run as your course's Course Rep, and if elected, you'll attend training during this period. The first Staff Student Liasion Committee meetings of the year will take place in this period.
If you're taking January exams, you'll receive your timetable as soon as it's ready and can start planning your revision timetable and plans for the break. Even if you have revision or assignments to do during the break, remember to schedule in time to relax, catch up with friends and family and reflect on your first term at LSE.
You may feel like the reading, assignments and studying should (and could) take up all of your time, but there's still plenty of time left at LSE for you to explore which activities benefit you, and which ones don't. Remember though, you can't do everything all the time. You don't need to feel pressured to get involved with things just because your peers are doing them.