Step Two

Ok so you have been given the best advice for starting at UCSD, "start by finding something you enjoy and go out and get involved". Fantastic, but wait how exactly do you go about doing that? Well if you are anything like me the first part of that statement held you up. "What if I don't know what I like? It isn't that I don't like anything, but I can't focus my interest to one or two clubs..." No worries, nothing says you have to know right now exactly what you want to participate in for your time at UCSD. Still where do you start to find anything you enjoy? Well what I did was join about twenty things and just emerse myself in activities. Ok I will admit that is a bit overkill, but the idea is just go and do.
Where do you find these things to go and do? During orientation ask anyone of the Warren lovers and they will tell you plenty ideas. Or just follow friends, roommates, classmates, strangers (it really doesn't matter) whereever they are going and see what it is like. You will never know if you like or dislike something unless you try it. And from there say you get started in school, time goes by, and you realize you I want to get started in something ... think back to orientation and remember just because it is over, does not mean you can't contact any orientation leader at any point for advice. Or just to tag along. Any new activity automatically becomes better when you do it with someone you know.

And that brings me to another tip. You have started going to meetings for a club and you think you like it, but you don't really feel comfortable at the meeting. Maybe you feel intimidated because you don't know as much as the other members or maybe everyone just seems to get along and you feel lie an outsider. It is ok. I have been there and my best advice (in fact my overall #1 advice I'd like to give you) is KEEP GOING. Even if your friends stop going. Even if you feel it is a drag to go. Even if you feel outcast. Things will get better. You will start to feel included and enjoy even look forward to going. Push through the drag and make yourself go. Because nothing is better than finding something you truely enjoy.

Sure you can't stick with twenty things. You will eliminate many and add more and then eliminate again. But you will find something that you truely enjoy. Because if it exist, it exists at UCSD!

And remember if you want to go to anything but need someone to go with ... I'll be there.

Sydney - transfer OL