-: As an undergrad I would say get involved,
absolutely positively when I was here a RA,
I was the president of my fraternity,
I was in a group called Virginia Tech Expressions
which is still active out here doing arts in the community
I started events and things like that on my own.
Every chance I had to get involved I would because
again it feeds back into that communication piece.
Being a RA and being in my fraternity,
it exposed me to various different cultures and communities
so that being said I'm still me I'm in both of those
environments in addition to every other environment I'm in.
It just allows me the exposure and ability to reach
different people and be reached by other people.
But you have to kind of communicate because you're meeting
and dealing with people on all different types of levels.
You can be talking to CEOs,
to foundation leaders, to community center leaders,
to mothers and fathers that are single parents
so I have to be very versatile in my communication skills
it's very important and it's something
that is worth putting time into.
A genuine kind of person because people can really
see through you if you're not being real with them.
And you really want to be real with people who
have been, a lot of times, been hurt a lot.
I'd say volunteer, volunteer as much as possible.
I'm a spiritual person so I say get involved with
the ministry 'cause there's plenty of ministries out here.
If you're Greek life, Greek life for me was massive.
I'm a part of the Eta Lambda chapter of
the Omega Psi Phi fraternity incorporated.
And while I was here events, going to the elderly home,
doing things there just kind of just kind of helped
me interact with them, getting out and doing clean ups,
hosting different programs, different lectures,
and just talks, it's something to kind of get your hands
in a lot of different pots because in my role
my hands are in a lot of different pots.