Getting Involved at Mac Part Seven: Term Two is Not Too Late!

"Getting Involved at Mac Part Seven: Term Two is Not Too Late!", January 5 2008

First semester has now come and gone. You have familiarized yourself with your new residence and the campus layout (or most of it...the basement of the Arts Quad is still of course another story [hell, it took me three years to figure it out]), and what all those damn acronyms for all the buildings mean. You have survived your first round of midterms, first university-level essays, and your first ever university level final exams. There was also Welcome Week, homesickness, getting lost several, if not many times, changed relationships with friends and family, new friends, the Freshman Fifteen (I told you so), and various random adventures and occurrences.

But maybe you did not get involved in any extra-curricular activities, or did not get involved as much as you liked. Either because you were too concerned about keeping up with your studies, or because you did not know what was available. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO GET INVOLVED AT MCMASTER! You can check out the previous articles in this series for ideas, if you’d like.

Clubsfest II is happening Wednesday January 9th in MUSC, starting in the morning and going practically all day. Nearly half of all the student clubs at McMaster will have a table and information for you. Check it out! Maybe you can find something that will suit your personality. You can also peruse the listings for all of the MSU clubs, available at the MSU website, here: http://www.msu.mcmaster.ca/clubs/listings.php. You can just send the club executives an email of inquiry and hopefully they will get back to you with information about their club.

Getting involved really helps to highlight your time at McMaster. It is also a way to meet new people, and beef up the resume, so get out there. Speaking of which...MacInsiders has some ways for you to get involved too! We’d LOVE to build up our teams, so please consider being part of ours!

Presently, we have five teams that you can be a part of. They are the Events/Social Team, Video Team, Promotions Team, Photography Team, and Writing Team. You can join one team, or all of them, the choice is yours. The members from each team are responsible for helping their Team Leaders to complete tasks designated to the specific teams. For example, members of the Photography Team take pictures at MacInsiders events, the Video Team creates the video series, the Promotions Team promotes events and the club in general, and the Events/Social team helps to run and brainstorm events. Lastly, there is the Writing Team, which is responsible for the articles that go up on the MacInsiders website. *cough* this is the most important team because I’m the Team Leader *cough*

How can you get involved? It is as simple as joining our Facebook group, sending an email to support@macinsiders.com, or Private Messaging Chad or myself (lorend) using the MacInsiders PM option. What we need is your full name, e-mail, academic year (eg. 1st), teams you want to join, and MacInsiders username! That’s it!

As a member, you will need to attend both general meetings, as well as meetings for the specific teams. We realize that attendance may be difficult at times, but if you can make it out it helps out a great deal. The amount you want to participate is up to you, however; if you participate actively and often, you may get some special rewards and incentives only available to the MacInsiders exec.