{"id":4533,"date":"2019-10-14T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2019-10-14T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:11:09","slug":"steven-clubs-clubs-clubs-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2019\/10\/14\/steven-clubs-clubs-clubs-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven: CLUBS CLUBS CLUBS (clubs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clubs open so many doors for you at BU and in COM, and for me,\u00a0 clubs have helped me find friends, gain professional experience, and find communities of like-minded people that have made this big campus feel so much smaller. I wanted to share my experiences with clubs on campus my first-year at BU, so hopefully you can learn from what I’ve learned. So without further ado, here is what I\u2019ve learned about all things clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best thing about COM is its clubs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I said it *drops mic.* COM classes are great, don\u2019t get me wrong, but the best experiences I\u2019ve had as a student so far have come from the clubs I joined. As a Freshman, I signed up for both WTBU & BUTV10,\u00a0 our radio station and television station, respectively. These clubs are fun, but they also have academic value; through BUTV10 and WTBU, I figured out I really wanted to be a Film & Television major instead of a Journalism major. Without these clubs, I probably would have still been undeclared right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clubs give you professional, hands on experience as soon as you arrive on campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was amazed by how quickly I got hands-on experience through clubs. My third week at BU I walked into a radio show with no idea what being an intern entailed. I quickly found out that being an intern meant I was <\/span>actually speaking, <\/span><\/i>on-air, with a group of strangers I had literally just met. Within a year, though, those DJs became some of my closest friends, and I was SO much more comfortable using radio equipment and speaking to an audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

At BUTV, I was immediately trained to use cameras, hang lights, set up boom microphones, and use recording software. The best thing about the television\u00a0 programs at BUTV was that I was able to dabble in many different aspects of television production, and find what I was interested in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clubs can help you find friends with similar interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of my best friends have been made through clubs at BU. Equally valuable, these friends are now professional contacts for my future career. I can\u2019t understate how important clubs have been for me in making a campus of 16,000 undergraduates feel smaller. I truly feel like I\u2019ve found a community through the clubs I\u2019ve been in, and made my transition into college as smooth as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joining clubs and finding out what you\u2019re not interested in is equally valuable as finding\u00a0 out what you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps the strongest piece of advice I can give you is that even if you drop a club, you still\u00a0 learned something. I dabbled in Journalism-oriented clubs my Freshman year, only to realize it wasn\u2019t my main interest. I soon found that my academic interests weren\u2019t aligned with my extracurriculars, and this realization helped me decide on changing my major. So dive in; join that acapella groups (even if you can\u2019t sing), try out for that comedy group (even though you\u2019re not funny), and find your COMmunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clubs open so many doors for you at BU and in COM, and for me,\u00a0 clubs have helped me find friends, gain professional experience, and find communities of like-minded people that have made this big campus feel so much smaller. I wanted to share my experiences with clubs on campus my first-year at BU, so … Continue reading Steven: CLUBS CLUBS CLUBS (clubs)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44574],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}