Walking through the student involvement fair as an already overwhelmed new college student was not a relaxing experience. Texting my friend to meet up with her so I wasn’t walking around alone while simultaneously trying to navigate my way though the endless wave of club tables and other confused students, also not a relaxing experience. But overall trying to find and choose a few clubs that I could really see myself getting involved in, terrified me.
I walked past table after table trying to find something I was interested in. It took me awhile to figure it out but I realized that the oval was organized into sections and that I probably wasn’t going to find the club for me in the section for Asian culture clubs. Once I found myself with a friend, and in a section with clubs I could find interest in, I was able to put my names down for a few clubs, things I could really see myself doing. There were a few other clubs I saw but ended up walking past due to the crowd sanding there or that if my friends kept walking I feared I would lose them forever in the deep-sea of people. One of the clubs I walked by was Ukulele Club, which seemed really cool.
I have played the ukulele since my freshman year of high school but I’m not really a big fan of playing or singing in front of people, which explains why I passed on it at first. But hours and days passed and I kept thinking about Ukulele club and I realized that this was probably something I wanted to do if was I was thinking about it so much
Once I realized this, I looked up the club and emailed the president of the club. She responded quickly and in the same humor that I used in my email and gave me the info on the next meeting. I was very excited to go but also very nervous as I was going to arrive alone and I would know no one there. Spoiler alert: it turned out okay. I walked in and sat in between two people who turned out to be very nice and I also talked to the girl in front of me for a while before we started playing.
I really liked going to the club because I was able to meet a bunch of new and cool people and we all had the common interest of playing the ukulele! I really liked the student leaders in the club, they had a very relaxed environment which matched a lot of people in the clubs vibes as well. I could definitely see myself being a leader in this club, I really liked all the leaders and members of the club and they were very relatable.
Coming to this club once a week will have to take priority when I am thinking of time management because this is only for one hour once a week so I will have to keep in mind to not push things off until Thursday nights.
Overall, I really enjoyed my experience at ukulele club and I will definitely be returning.