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Getting Involved: How to Say “NO” so That You Don’t Over Commit
INSPIRE Presentation:Victoria Evans
What is Your Goal?
• What are you trying to achieve in your 4 years at Georgia Southern?
• What are your plans after graduation?
• What will HELP you REACH your goals?
What is imperative to your success?
• It can be very tempting to join every club your freshman and sophomore year of college…
• But what will actually help you?
Can I have the best of both worlds? Join something fun and
necessary?
• Yes!• You want to make sure that your involvement
in college isn’t limited to things that “you should do” but at the same time you want to find a balance between fun and helpful.
How do I know if joining an organization is beneficial to my career?
• Contact your advisor or talk to a professor in your college. Use your resources!!!
• Talk to upperclassmen who are the same major as you, and learn from their experience.
• Go to the Student Activity Center (SAC) and see what clubs and organizations GSU has to offer!
Congratulations! You’re involved!!!
• But how do you say “no” so that you don’t over commit?
• Being a campus leader comes with a lot of expectations, but it does not mean that you have to join everything possible!
Make a list of your commitments!
• Activity:– Look at handout of organizations on campus– On your piece of paper write a goal that you have
post-graduation (i.e. Graduate School). Then under that list off 7 activities that you decided to be involved in on campus. • Ex: 1. Phi Mu 2. Phi Alpha Delta 3. Phi Eta Sigma 4.
Southern Ambassadors 5. Friends etc…
Activity continued…
• Look at your list does it seem cluttered? Are some of your activities competing?
• Now you must decide to cut out 2 of your activities. If you are too heavily involved this may be easy to cut some of the “slack” activities that you are involved in.
Pro/Con List!• What MUST you have in order to succeed? Put
those activities in slots 1 and 2.• What activities do you for ENJOYMENT. Put one of
those activities in slot 3. – With the remaining activities that you may be
struggling with, think about the PRO to keeping them, and the CON to losing them!
Keep in Mind…
• The more things that you commit to the less time and energy you can put into your other activities!
• You can successfully build your resume with one or two activities and build your way through the organization.
Also…
• Just because you join an organization does not mean that you have to stick with it for 4 years.
• You can join clubs after your freshman year, don’t feel obligated to join everything your first year in college!
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