College Clubs and Organizations

There is a lot more to college than your college classes. At first, you may just go between your dorm room and classes without really exploring all that college has to offer. While that may be okay for the first few weeks of college while you become acclimated to your new environment, it isn’t a trend you will want to continue throughout all of your years of college. Getting involved in college organizations, clubs, and more will broaden your college experience, help you make more friends, and help you feel even more like you belong at college. The problem is how. How do you get involved in these clubs and organizations?

The big thing that you will want to do is keep watch of college bulletin boards. These change pretty often, so you will want to check a couple times a week. This is where you will find out about plenty of things, from other college students selling textbooks that you may need to upcoming clubs and when they meet. There may even be announcements of club and organization fairs that you can attend to check out the different clubs your college has to offer. You don’t even have to be limited to one club or organization – get involved in as many as you want, but make sure you can handle them with the rest of your workload. 

Talk to professors – you may know that your professor is involved with organizations on campus for topics that you’re interested in. Talk with your professor, find out more about the organization and what you can do to join. Once you start joining clubs and making new friends you may even find out about more organizations you can join from those friends. 

Joining in a club or organization can be quite scary at first and you may want to immediately leave as soon as you go to the first meeting. In fact, it will take a few meetings for you to start to feel comfortable. This is a good kind of scary feeling though – it’s taking you out of your element so you will feel nervous at first, but once you start getting involved more, you’ll be glad you stuck through the nervous feelings because your college experience will be more fulfilling.