Find Yourself

Find Yourself 

     If you think High School is one of the toughest and most crucial points in one’s life, there is an even tougher one. It is called College. In college, it is where we start developing our adult lives and pave the way for what is to come. We meet all these new people, start doing tasks parents would always do, and start paying this thing called bills. What is one of the most influential factors in our lives are the people around us.

     In college there are a lot groups that people can be a part of. It is one of the most important activities in College that students do not join much. If one was to join an organization, it would help them drastically improve their everyday lives and their social experience. Many do not do it though. Either reason of traveling or do not have time.

   
     That’s all lies! If you say one is busy with school work, I am currently taking 18 credits and am on the e-board for two different organizations. My free time is hardly there because the free time that I do, is the time I use to study and catch up on certain stuff. Being busy isn’t a good thing because stress comes from it, but it is always better to keep busy because one will feel great satisfaction.

    We all go through a moment in our College careers where we spend 75% of our times in our dorm or residence hall depending on what school you go to. That is all nice and stuff, but this is like if you were living back home! Mom or Dad would be all over business trying to see what you were up to and not letting you be out and free. Being in the dorm, you are the own mother and father to your mind, go out and explore the world and campus around you! Exploring the campus can lead to so much of a more entertaining college life, but better yet, a lasting one.

     Being a Latino in a predominately white campus has been enjoyable to me! The Caste System has been able to define me a student who would never graduate high school, let alone come to college. Now that the caste system has changed over time, now it is in the position that the Latinos that come to college do not complete it. I am against all odds but I love it because the impacts I have made in two different organizations has been taken into account by faculty on campus that would have never thought it would happen. Though you may be in a position in which it is paved to be successful, to something that one has never done before because that is what would make you different. 

     I encourage one to look around at all orgs and give them a try because eventually one will find something they are comfortable with. When one finds something they are comfortable with, they can start developing new leadership skills to help out those in the orgs while extending their social connections. Social groups / organizations are a major help as long as one loves it. Do not do one you are not comfortable with just as you wouldn’t do a job that you do not like.

http://specialsections.suntimes.com/education/college/22630118-555/joining-student-organizations-benefits-your-present-future.html

http://studentlife.msu.edu/student-organizations-activities/benefits-of-involvement