Beyond The Diag - January 2022

As part of the university’s continuing plan to keep our community safe, all staff, faculty and students are required to report that they have received their COVID-19 booster. A booster is an additional dose of vaccine, given at least six months after a primary series of COVID-19 vaccination, or two months after the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine. Please note that this information needs to be reported by Friday, February 4, 2022.

Last semester, Beyond The Diag hosted two in-person Housing Fairs. , which offered students an opportunity to connect with housing providers, to learn more about off-campus housing options and find out about support for students who live off-campus. If you missed out on our housing fairs in the Fall or would like to find out more about your off-campus options, don’t panic! Beyond The Diag is hosting our Winter Housing Fair on Thursday, February 17th from noon to 3pm in the Rogel Ballroom, on the second floor of the Michigan Union.

While the football season is behind us, many other sports’ seasons are in full swing. Women’s Basketball is looking very dominant, and tickets are still available for upcoming games versus Indiana (1/31) and Iowa (2/6). The Men’s Basketball team heads to East Lansing for a key match-up against Michigan State on January 29, before big home games in February versus Nebraska, Purdue and Ohio State. The Ohio State game will be a “Blue Out”, so if you’re heading to Crisler, make sure you plan your outfit!

Do you find that your food often turns bad before you get to use it? Do you forget about the food you have in the fridge if it is hidden and out of sight? Do you get frustrated that the money you are spending goes to waste when you have to throw food away? Do you want to learn about how to make your food last longer to reduce how much food waste you produce?

Time management is a skill that everyone needs to build throughout their lives. It is possible to learn how to manage your time effectively and efficiently based on your schedule and habits. Additionally, it is important to schedule time for yourself, to support healthy habits and maintain energy so that you can complete your daily tasks. Here are some useful tips to help you manage your academic and personal time this new semester.

Time management tips:

1. Create a schedule for your day and stick to it

Beyond the Diag will be hosting in-person office hours again this semester. Our office hours are available to all University of Michigan students, to answer questions or address concerns about off-campus living. During our office hours, a student team member will be available to provide information and resources about living off-campus. Our student staff members are upper-class and graduate students, and are familiar with some of the experiences, benefits, and challenges that can come with living off-campus.

During the winter semester, Counseling and Psychological Services is offering group sessions and workshops tailored to a variety of different topics to provide students with a safe space to open up about what is troubling them. 

The Winter 2022 Lunch Series are drop-in events with no previous appointments required, all occurring between 11:30-12:15pm. The following sessions are offered as part of the Lunch Series:

In order to make sure that students who live off-campus are getting the latest information about events, support and resources, we are adjusting our monthly newsletter timing. The newsletter will be sent around the 9th of each month, and posted on our website at the same time. As we start this new timing, it will mean that our February newsletter will be landing soon!