Reflective Essay: Startin Starting A Club At Community College

As a youth, I engaged in many forms of dance expression. I studied tap, jazz, and ballet for fifteen years. During these formative years, I choose to forgo many youth experiences so that I could participate in advance dance programs. The hard work paid off when I received a college scholarship to a performing arts

The most meaningful club/activity that I have participated in during high school has definitely been DECA; which is an international

I danced at Tina’s Dance Studio in Eldridge, Iowa for 12 consecutive years before I graduated high school. There I studied in ballet, pointe, contemporary, modern, lyrical, tap, jazz, hip-hop, musical theater, gymnastics and clogging. I was also a part of the competition team for eight years. We not only did local competitions and conventions, but we traveled and went to nationals in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. I also danced in shows in Disney World and on a Carnival Cruise Ship. In high school, I was on the varsity Dance Team winning three state titles in pom and lyrical eventually traveling to Nationals. A few summers ago, I trained with Hubbard Street Dance in Chicago with their summer intensive focusing on modern, contemporary and ballet. During my senior year of high school and this past summer I taught classes in jazz, tap and contemporary for students 8-16 years old. I also self-choreographed three competition solos. Here, at Ohio University, I am a member of the dance team doing dances at football and basketball games.

clubs, such as diversity. Also I would be interested in maybe becoming part of the student

I haven’t done much in the club so far, but there are multiple opportunities for me to get involved in the future. I already met so many new friends through this club and I can tell these people will be my friends until the day we graduate from college. By going to some of the Collegiate FFA/Ag. Education meetings, I learned of different engagement opportunities and made new friends as well.

As I went through the research process for this paper I conducted many interviews with former classmates who are now either attending a four-year university or a local community college. The original intent was to find out their reasons for attending the institution they chose to attend. As I accumulated information I began to see a glaring trend in the relationship between the social group the individual was a member of and the college they ended up attending. This then drove me to further examine the influencing factors in these students’ social lives, in a hope of identifying the degree to which they are influenced by each other. Thus, the first part of the paper explores

I want to continue that feeling of being more socially engaged in college. In one of those clubs, the National Honor Society I was surrounded by individuals that care about the environment and helping others in the community like the homeless. I want to continue this at FIU, at orientation I found out about a really interesting program that has similar goals, which I am thinking of joining. This relates to the mantras I think relate to my transition to college, for one I am going out of my comfort zone by joining my first college club and I’ll be surrounding myself with people that would help me grow. In doing so, I feel like I would become a better person in a social sense because I`ll be able to interact with people without being shy.

with your community as a whole. I have been a part of the science club, art club, drama

A club that I have enjoyed being in since fifth grade is Beta Club. Currently I am the Historian in my high school Beta Club. Some people may believe Beta Club only focuses on academics, but it does so much more. Even though academics is a big part of the club, we also focus on leadership, achievement, character, and service. Our club traveled to the national convention to compete about a year ago. A competition I entered was called the “Meeting of the Minds”, and I was on a team with three other people. We went in not expecting to win anything, because our school does not seem to place much at state conventions, but we tried our best. To our surprise we placed first in the competition. It was so exciting when we realized we won first.

One solution for the problem is to have an entry fee for every student that wants to be a part of the club. These fees will only be a couple of dollars at the beginning of each quarter. The money that you pay will be used for many things. One thing that they can be used for is to buy supplies. Those supplies can be anything

For most of my first year in college I felt lost and alone; I was not really involved with clubs or organizations until my second year at Miami Dade Honors College and I don’t want to have that same experience while attending FIU. I know that being part of the Honors College at FIU will benefit me because of the tight knit community, but it is always good to have friends and communicate with people from all backgrounds. After breaking through my shell, I have learned that I enjoy other people’s company.

At this point I was also president of Math League and serving as editor of Arlingtonian for my second year. By the end of junior year I was looking for even more ways to affect my community in a positive manner. I was writing applications for summer camps, and had discovered through hours of self-searching and wallowing in my mind that I really did care about leaving a legacy, even in a small way. Then I had a brilliant idea -- either brilliantly meaningful or brilliantly trivial depending on who you are --, that I would start a new Save the Bees club. I brought the ideas up with my friends, who were nothing but supportive, and quickly established a basis of what we would do. I found an advisor, Mr. Polotaye, and after a few forms and a quick meeting with Mr. Fanuele himself, we were made an official club, with this year as our first. I’m truly excited to see where the club will go, but I’m even more excited about what I could do with it. We could raise funds for a bee activist organization, or hold bee-related awareness events, or maybe just plant bee-friendly flowers in the courtyards. I am thrilled that I will be able to leave a lasting make on Arlington in the form of a club, but above all I’m glad to have made a positive impact on my community in more ways than

After going on the PSU Abington website and looking at the variety of organizations/clubs available, I am truly astounded at the amount of options available for students to join seeing as this is only my second semester at PSU Abington. When looking though the groups on the PSU Abington website, there was one group that stood out to me more than other groups which is the organization called SHE CLUB. I use the word astounded due to the fact that I wasn’t expecting to see that kind of forward-thinking organization that is provided at PSU Abington but I couldn’t be happier that the organization exists. In addition, for some reason I did not expect PSU Abington to have such a vast amount of student organization due to the overall size of the campus but this has made me feel more comfortable and welcomed as a student now at PSU Abington. As a result, I am most defiantly going to start getting more into PSU Abington student organizations now.

I am from a small community that is lacking in diversity compared to larger cities, and I would love to experience how unique and amazing a blended community can be. One of the most exciting aspects of going to college is meeting new people, and the variation in personalities, beliefs, and social backgrounds that I am sure to experience will influence who I will become and what interests I will decide to pursue. The idea of being a part of a group of people that challenges me and respects me is also very exciting. I imagine that it would be very beneficial to learn alongside other highly motivated students, as well as having the support of an entire community to push me to acquire innovative ideas, goals, and achievements while meeting new people and creating forever

One of the first big steps to becoming an adult is moving out of the house and to college. When signing up for college, the advisors will tell you to join a club or to be involved. Some clubs are religious groups, which provide a place for college students to feel connected to God as well as feel comfortable with the big change in their life.