{"id":4278,"date":"2013-11-26T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/be-a-dar-superstar\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T20:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:36:25","slug":"be-a-dar-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/blog\/be-a-dar-superstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a DARS Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The picture above is easily the best picture I\u2019ve seen in four years. Do you see that beautiful green pie graph? It illustrates the depth of my satisfaction knowing that in just one more semester I will be a college graduate. I\u2019ll clarify now and say that I didn\u2019t just write this post to brag (though the idea was tempting) but rather to express just how vitally important it is to keep an eye on your degree audit report<\/a> (DAR). That little pie graph is so wonderfully green because I always kept close tabs on what classes I\u2019d taken and what I still had left to worry about.<\/p>\n

Over the last four years I\u2019ve checked my DAR excessively.\u00a0 Sometimes, I\u2019d even check it twice a day just to make extra sure that I was going to graduate someday. Now I\u2019m not encouraging my level of obsession (it\u2019s exhausting!), but knowing what\u2019s on your DAR is incredibly important, especially as you get further along in your college career.<\/p>\n

Basically, the DAR is your roadmap to graduation. It tells you your standing GPA, your completed classes, the general education requirements and the requirements for your majors and minors all in one place.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the kicker: it\u2019s your job to be on top of it. Even though your advisor will always be willing to help you figure things out, they likely have dozens of other students to help as well so they will not be able to track all of your progress.<\/p>\n

Having a grasp on what you\u2019re expected to accomplish will not only make your college career smoother, it will make your advisor\u2019s job easier. Rather than going into their office and asking \u201cWhich classes do I need to take?\u201d you can ask questions like \u201cBetween these two classes that I\u2019m required to take, which do you recommend for my focus?\u201d\u00a0 This will help narrow the problem down significantly.<\/p>\n

Considering all of this, it\u2019s difficult to overstate the importance of being aware of your progress. I have a close friend who got to her last semester only to realize that she didn\u2019t take a class that she needed to graduate. Though she still walked in the commencement, she had to come back over the summer and finish the last class in order to receive her diploma. She could have easily fit the class in much earlier in her college career; she just didn\u2019t realize it was a requirement.<\/p>\n

This problem could have been easily dealt with had she checked (and double-checked) her DAR before her last semester. Plus, I still give her a hard time about it even though she did eventually graduate. I\u2019m a good friend that way.<\/p>\n

So this is me being a good friend to you, readers. Don\u2019t put off checking your DAR. Make lists of the classes you have left, or print off the report and highlight the classes you want to take, However you do it just make sure it gets done.<\/p>\n

Besides, if you check it regularly you get the immense satisfaction of seeing that little pie-graph at the top turn all green. That almost makes the effort worth it in itself.<\/p>\n

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The picture above is easily the best picture I\u2019ve seen in four years. Do you see that beautiful green pie graph? It illustrates the depth of my satisfaction knowing that in just one more semester I will be a college graduate. I\u2019ll clarify now and say that I didn\u2019t just write this post to brag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":4279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admissions-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/DARs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PQJv-170","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}