HOW TO: Be Involved!

Hi everyone! Here I am with my last post of the semester.  While I do not have any internship news as of yet, I am still able to leave the semester off on a good note.  I feel like everyone puts so much pressure on getting an internship and don’t get me wrong, I do as well.  But, I have recently be also focusing on my on-campus involvement.  These past few weeks I have received multiple leadership positions in organizations that I love and that I am excited to contribute to them.

Even though internships are important, I also find my impact on-campus to be important.  Especially with it being my last year as a student, I am trying to gain experience with on-campus organizations.  This is something I highly recommend to any college student.  The best way to gain experience is to be involved! I feel like a lot of my resume experience comes from the organizations that I am in on-campus.  I know that a lot of people are usually too busy during the fall and spring semesters to have an internship, so I find that on-campus involvement to be the perfect option to gain that experience.  I also think on-campus involvement is important because you get to meet people and may even find yourself in uncomfortable situations (which is a good thing!). I know it is hard to want to sign up or apply for something that your friends aren’t because then you don’t know anyone but I think you shouldn’t let that deter you from any opportunity.  My freshman year of college I applied to an organization on-campus that none of my friends applied to.  I was worried because I was only a freshman and didn’t know a lot of people as it was my first semester, but I knew that this was something that I wanted to be part of.

Now, three years later, I have made countless friends in this organization and have been able to progress to an executive board position.  Just like what I talked about in my first blog post, apply to everything - even on-campus involvement positions!  Experience is experience regardless of it being labeled as an internship or not.  My involvement has transformed my college experience and it is something that advocate for in my sorority.  

When looking for involvement on-campus, I would highly recommend looking at both positions that you are interested in as well as organizations that you would want to get involved with.  You want to make sure that you are passionate about what you are doing.  For example, since I am interested in content creation, I mostly apply for social media or public relations positions.  I feel like I wouldn’t have been the same person without my involvement and I highly recommend that everybody does something.  I love that I am able to look back on time in college and know that I was able to do something on-campus and contribute to the university.  Involvement rocks!