-: I think what's most important is,
is that if you're, if you're thinking about
working in Student Affairs, that you think about
where are you involved on campus?
And in what ways are you better understanding
what campus life is about?
In what ways are you then also understanding
your own experience as a college student
and paying attention to that?
So whether you're an engineering student,
an architectural student, an education major,
or, you know, a history major,
if you're fully developing the skills
that come, that allow you to be able to think about
and care about how people grow and develop.
Those are the right types of experiences
that you need to be at, that you need to
really, sort of, gravitate towards
so that as you prepare to come in to
a Student Affairs position or graduate program,
you're in a better position to really understand
how people operate and how people work.
You know, if you're looking around you're like,
I've got all this time and the space
to be able to, I don't know, hone my skills,
or to really truly understand what's going on in the world,
do something productive with your time, you know.
Gravitate towards a cause.
Join an organization.
I think the, no matter what your,
no matter where you might work in student affairs,
understanding how organizations work
is really the most critical thing.
So, if you've got some down time,
go do something on campus, you know,
with an organization, with a group of people.
Developing relationships and really truly understanding
what it is, what is it that you care about.
So, even if it means some of the mundane thing to do,
if it's going to play Frisbee golf, for example,
and that's what you feel led to do,
do it with people, you know, and then decide.
Do I care a lot about being outdoors?
Do I care a lot about, you know, golf?
Do I, you know, the real sport of golf
not just Frisbee golf.
But just simply do something with your time
that allows you to really truly continue
understanding what do you care most about?
I think that's what you, that's what you
have to do with your time.
So most times if you're going to be interested in
working with fraternity or sorority life
or any other area of student affairs,
you're gonna most like have gone through
a graduate program to be able to do that.
So that graduate program would have allowed you to
through a graduate assistantship to work in a office,
to work in a specific area within student affairs
and then getting that first job
is just a matter of, you know,
there are tons of websites that are devoted
to, kind of, providing clearinghouse for positions.
And it's just simply looking for those positions
that line up with what you're interested in.