Heading home after school to lounge around, sitting in the cafeteria on your smart phone or laptop doing nothing important. We all do it, when instead we could easily be attending one of the many events on campus, or being a bit more active in school.

A few semester ago after school the first thing I would do is go home and completely disregard activities that would happen on campus or anything related to it. I didn’t care who was doing what or how, I thought I would easily be able to transfer with no problems whatsoever, so long as I kept my grades relatively high and took all the right courses. Well I learned it’s not that easy especially if you are trying to transfer into a top college. I decided to throw myself into a multitude of different clubs and events on campus. Boy did I not regret that choice, being active on campus has opened up so many different opportunities that I would have never dreamed of.

If you want to transfer into a top college you NEED to have extracurricular activities under your belt .The best and easiest way to do that is to become active on campus in some way.

There are so many resources that engage students and allow them to be active in our community it’s ludicrous. From student government to the mass amount of clubs on campus, in fact there are so many clubs listing all of them would be an article in and of itself, plus part of being active on campus is discovering these possibilities for yourself, so get out there and do it. Finding one that suits your needs or align with your likings should be a piece of cake.

No need to jump right in, take it slow if you don’t feel comfortable. Instead of going home one day take the time to look around, ask a friend who is in a club to show you around, attend different clubs meeting, you never know what you may find or what kind of great people you may meet.

Sure someone out there might be saying well I’m going to SF State, or I’m just taking classes for my job, so I don’t really care. Stop and think about it for a second. We have an extremely diverse campus with brilliant minds both in the student body and in the faculty, who have traveled the world and have connections to people that can make your career path of choice much easier to attain. And if you’ve ever taken a career class at Skyline you know the saying, “It’s who you know not what you know.” My point being, this school is an optimal place for networking and meeting people. You just need to take an active stance and throw yourself into it.

Being active and engaged on campus will open doors for you. If not from all the great things you may be able to put on your resume or transcript, it will be from the great connections you make on campus.