Networking

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1. Do not abandon the instinct for networking that you will have developed in your working life: you will find it invaluable at university.

2. Try not to wait until an outside speaker or interesting lecturer offers you an email address or contact number: make the first contact.

3. If you are working in a group, be the one to organise contact lists. Undergraduates often forget to do this until it is inconveniently late.

4. Networking outside your immediate department or school will be useful to you if you decide to alter your degree profile at a later stage.

5. Remember that your professional contacts will still be useful to you, either during your degree or once you have graduated, so try to maintain some external networks.

This content has been written by Lucinda Becker, author of How to Manage Your Arts, Humanities and Social Science Degree.