As someone who was afraid to reach out and be involved during high school, I was expecting college to play out the same way. I didn’t do anything other than school my freshman year and slowly worked my way to being involved over the course of the four years. Over the summer, I started looking into different clubs and activities that are offered on campus. I started looking into a sorority, and DECA. Just from looking at the various clubs, I would think to myself “yeah there is no way I’m going to join anything my freshman year.” During GB Welcome when they talked about OrgSmorg, I decided I would go and check it out just to see if anything interested me. I went to four different booths: Zeta Omega Tau, DECA, Hip Hop, and student ambassador. I am now currently involved with three of those four activities. I am pledging for Zeta Omega Tau, I ran for VP of Recruitment in DECA and won, and I made the competition hip hop team.
I would say going out of my comfort zone and signing up for various activities is the best decision I have made since I came to college. It is undoubtably keeping me extremely busy with practices and meetings, but I am meeting so many more people I would not have met if I did not sign up for these activities. I would recommend signing up for even just activities you think you may enjoy. You will meet so many new people and do so many new things to truly make the most of your college experience right away. While you may want to sign up for the array of activities, just make sure you are not overdoing it to the point you cannot get your schoolwork done. You want to have a great college experience, but you also want to get a degree. If there is one thing you take away from this, it would be get involved to meet new people, but don’t get too involved to the point you don’t get your schoolwork done.
My sorority (Zeta Omega Tau) pledge class