New Challenges

Today, my internship started early. In fact, I got part of my assignment yesterday for my internship. Paul decided to sit with me and my friends yesterday at lunch and we discussed many things. Of those included my idea to get a volleyball team started. Many students in my hallway have expressed the desire to join a volleyball team.

I had previously mentioned it to Paul and expressed the amount of student retention and the benefits it has to having a team on campus. Yesterday, he asked me to set up a table at the college club fair with some information on the first meeting and a sign up for people who may be interested in the team. I was interested in the fact that not only the fact that I got this club off the ground so quickly, but also that the fact that there were so many girls interested in joining the team. I felt like this was one step to event planning, since I organized the logistics of the club and got members to sign up, as well as setting up applications for people to coach the team. Many questions were asked about the team and thankfully I did have some assistance. I had some girls to sit beside of me to help answer volleyball vocab and runs and such.

After the college club fair, I went to the Admissions Department to help Katie with some last minute paperwork. I was asked to set folders up for each of the admissions counselors with information and handouts in folders. There was over 200 folders that I needed to fill, so Katie asked to call in for backup and some of the other campus ambassadors pitched in. Included in the folder we had to put duplicates of certain items, such as "core cards" that a student fills out with his name and major and hometown. I wondered why this was and Katie informed me that it was because of the opportunities. Students talk and like to stick together. Students can also market by word of mouth and give others brochures for the college.

Today overall was a very good day. I got to practice my skills of group work to effectively get all the folders done and I got the chance to  also help plan and organize the making of the volleyball team.