Should you join clubs at your university?
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): College Rentals
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/02/21
Let’s say you are settled into the dorm, know the personalities that you will be dealing with for the next semester or longer, have become acquainted with the geography of the campus and can figure out how to plan your meals for the day and the class schedule alongside that too. What now? You have some extra time. You want to cram in as much undergraduate time into your own life as possible.
You have some time, but do not know how to spend it. Your friends are busy. You have done your homework, had lunch and the rest of the day is ahead of you. What do you do? You can look into clubs. If you look on the university website or the university student union website, then you can see the list of student clubs.
If you have trouble finding the list for the website, please look for an administrator or an assistance from the appropriate part of the university student union to help find the link. They are elected student officials, so they are beholden in service to you!
Once you find the right listing, and have time to look through them, you obviously have already decided that these are something worth pursuing by taking the time to go this far into the process – if not just for curiosity for what is one offer or for a peek into the campus culture.
But you can see the varieties of fellow students’ experiences with a potential offer for you. You can find offerings for varieties of faiths and non-faith groups. Whether Orthodox or Reformed Judaism or Humanist clubs, or debate club, a chess club, a video gamer club, a political club like Model United Nations, or a travel group’s club devoted to one of those “go see the Amazon” deals, and so on, the number will depend on the size of the student body and activity of the student community as well.
Do you want to become involved in the psychology community there? Then you need to look into the psychology society or association on campus because, maybe, you can find some connections into the research labs and other professional opportunities at the same time.
Should you be involved in the clubs on campus? You probably should. It can brighten an otherwise difficult academic experience with some variety in experience and may even benefit professional experience as well.
But once you made the choice, found the resources, and have chosen a club or few, how do you join and become involved? There is usually an email or a Facebook group with the possibility for direct messaging. If they do not have direct contact, you can always use those contact points to relay to the more relevant people responsible for membership within the group.
This is important to remember and can be an important life skill. If you do not have direct access to the right people, you can find your way to the right people with some effort and a little social finesse. From those valuable indirect contacts, you can then find the right people within the club.
Also, let’s say even after all of that time and effort, you find that you cannot find the right contact for the club or even a club that interests you. You just found another great area in which to contribute to the campus life.
You can take on a leadership role and then begin your own club. You simply a sufficient number of people signing on, a title and goal of the club, and then have to fill in the appropriate papers. Once filled in and submitted to the university student union, you can begin your own club and can then be that resource for others, who will try to reach you through email or Facebook. Try it out!
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