Campus Involvement
This semester I participated in Stillwater, the literary magazine on campus for which I am the fiction editor. We have had several fall projects such as our online blogs and our Art Causes a Ripple program to gain student submissions and communicate with artists in the community, and we’ve also been focusing on recruitment and preparations for the Spring semester and our production of our literary magazine. I also participated in the Health and Happiness Club on campus by working on editing articles for their ongoing website. I was also a Story Editor for the ICTV show And The Rest Is History, which was another really great opportunity to do editing, and to get into more scriptwriting.
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Community Service
I participated in Service Saturday this semester, where we went to sort clothes and shoes at the Ithaca Reuse Center. This was a really great event; it was really fun to find all the matching pairs of shoes and find all of the strange and wonderful things that people donate. It was also really rewarding to see how much we were able to accomplish in the time we were given. Me and one other person sorted through an entire pallet of mismatched shoes, weeding out the unusable products and pairing up the rest so they were ready to go out into the store. It was one of my favorite SLIs I’ve attended as someone who loves thirifting, to see and participate in the process of reusing clothing.
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Student Leadership Institute
I attended Knowing Your Stuff: Anti-Oppression Workshop, a Leading in a Diverse World event. This was a really important event to me because I really see the value in acknowledging the limitations of our campus and our community. There are many inherent limitations — for example, we discussed how the location of our campus naturally limits wheelchair accessibility — and there’s a lot of value in understanding the ways that our community can promote equity and accessibility despite the limits that exist to us naturally.
My second SLI this semester was called Extraverts & Introverts: How to Use Your Preference as a Student Leader , which was Leading Self workshop. This SLI was actually incredibly enlightening for me. I realized I might be more extraverted than I previously thought, because while I’m limited by my anxiety, I do draw a lot of comfort from being in a social situation that I trust. I think this SLI showed me that I will do myself a disservice if I remain in positions that do not require active communication. It’s important to create a space where people feel safe and understood, so that anxiety does not dissuade people from going out and being in groups and organizations. My third SLI was called Emergency Preparedness and Response, which was a Leading Others SLI (I specifically tried to attend one of each). I really thought it was interesting to get into the practical applications of leading in an emergency. There are lots of elements to preparedness that I hadn’t considered, and I think recognizing that emergency response is incredibly dependent on preparedness really changed the way I think about being in public spaces and having awareness of the people around me. |