Campus Involvement
This semester I worked on Stillwater Magazine as a fiction editor and a copyeditor. I loved working as a fiction editor! It was good to work with a team doing evaluations, but the real leadership lesson I learned was from working with the authors. It was a good practice in communication, especially since we were all unable to meet in person, and there was also a lot to learn about timing, delegation, and compromise. I liked working with multiple authors at once and having more on my plate than I did last semester working with this club.
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Community Service
My engagement in the spring of last year was actually donating food, and I did that again this semester. It's a really good way to help for someone who's Covid-paranoid like me. I had a different method this time, and I was able to collect nonperishable food from friends instead of just using my own. I liked the ability to work with other people and create something helpful.
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Student Leadership Institute
My first SLI was called Bystander Intervention Training. This was nice because it was a really small group and it was more of a discussion than a presentation. The presentation itself was really well done and it addressed the nuance of the situation. I learned that in a situation where someone may require immediate intervention, someone has to just take charge of the situation and others will follow. I think it's important to be willing to take initiative in situations like that.
The second SLI I attended was called Highlighting Essential Women in STEM. I'm not personally a woman in STEM but I worked in STEM programs in high school and a lot of my close friends who are women are entering STEM careers, so the issue is important to me. I was interested in what tools women can use to overcome sexism in STEM fields. That issue is really close to my heart, so having some more concrete tools for it was super helpful. I attended the SLI Your Summer Game Plan. This was an amazing workshop! My summers are almost always aimless and I don't get a lot done that furthers my cause. Especially last summer, I was so nervous about COVID I didn't work or anything, and I felt so useless and aimless. This SLI taught me about keeping goals in mind and working on things with mind to your future. This summer I'm taking a class for my minor and I'm also working, and I've applied for on-campus jobs starting in the fall, and I just feel so much more positive and active about my future. |