The extracurriculars in my school are complete crap.

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<p>As a would-be commuter student last year (I knew I was commuting from the moment was accepted), almost everyone I spoken to encouraged me to join clubs and extracurriculars and "be part of the campus community."</p>

<p>During the first week of the first semester, I attended the activity day fair they held out in the quad. I signed up for a large list of clubs, and received a flurry of emails urging me to attend their first meetings. </p>

<p>Ultimately I decided to attend the meetings of the clubs which interested me. These were the Management Consulting Club, the Finance Academy, the Historical Society, and the College Republicans. I was particularly excited to part of the Management Consulting Club, since it could give me some real "working" experience in consulting.</p>

<p>I attended a handful of meetings (and even paid my dues for certain clubs!), but then... after a while... the clubs just stopped meeting and I stopped receiving emails. Of course, I still got the odd email here and there, so I was still subscribed to the mailing lists of all of these clubs. But, as soon as late October hit, there was nothing but radio silence. </p>

<p>What disappointed me the most was perhaps the Management Consulting Club. The club officers were particularly encouraging during the initial meeting. They claimed that they were going to open the world of consulting to us... and even invited some alumni who were working in the management consulting industry to speak to us. After this little pep talk, we were assigned to "projects" in which we were to do some "consulting" work for some of BC's bureaucratic and academic offices. However, after this initial meeting, no further meetings were ever scheduled and I have not heard anything from the club officers since.</p>

<p>And now, it's the spring semester already, and none of these clubs have yet to send me any email about possible club meetings or events to attend. </p>

<p>I have recently talked to my academic adviser on the subject - and even she admitted that many of BC's extracurriculars were more "on the inactive side," as she liked to put it.</p>

<p>As a commuter student, I can't help but feel disappointed by not only my school's lack of support for its commuter students (there isn't even an official commuter students' club) and the relatively inactive extracurriculars which, from my perspective, only serve to help students pad up their resumes for graduate school.</p>

<p>And even after all this time and my vain attempts to join clubs so that I could be be part of this campus community, I feel like an outsider more than ever. I feel as though most people become "part of the community" only through attendance of sports events and getting drunk with their roommates in the dorms on Friday and Saturday nights. Problem is, as a commuter student, my capacity to do either of these two things is extremely limited (I work on weekends, and drinking doesn't appeal to me).</p>

<p>Anyone feel the same way about their school?</p>

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<p>I felt like that about a particular club at my school. I went to meetings for like the first 5 weeks, but felt like the students in charge were a bit disorganized. And it seemed like some of them who had an officer position were just there to build their resume (which is not a bad thing, but they lack any enthusiasm and seemed like they forced themselves to be there). In addition, when they were offering the position of secretary, only one girl showed up for the night of the “election”. She got the position right on spot. After that night, it was my last meeting.</p>

<p>I wanted to do this thing for a “Big Buddy” program last year, but they weren’t accepting anymore applications. But it didn’t matter because on the Facebook group people who did apply were asking when they were going to get a “buddy” – 1 month and 1/2 before the semester ended. Disorganization once again.</p>

<p>And then there are the clubs that are listed on the “Get Involved” website but the clubs are dead at the moments. Two clubs that I was interested in are inactive – which sucks. find inactive clubs to be common here. Sometimes I wish I could start the ones I like back up, but who would I recruit? And will it just die out when I graduate?</p>

<p>I feel like for most clubs at my school you need to have an officer position to feel involved. Just showing up — even for every single meeting, every week — is not enough. There isn’t anything else I’m interested in. I can’t sing or act, so that rules out any performance groups. And I’m not an activist so stuff like “environmental club” or “Pro-choice” clubs don’t interest me =&lt;/p>

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<p>Are you able to start your own club? If you are in charge, surely you can do better than the incompetent slackers currently in charge. Not only is that instant leadership experience, if you do something really prominent then you will get something out of it completely indepedent of college admissions gamesmanship. </p>

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<p>Start it! You’re probably not the only one who feels this way, and all those people are just waiting for a fearless leader to step forward. Be that leader! Watch Visioneers! Create the life you want to live if others can’t provide it.</p>

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<p>My first school had no clubs for you unless you were an african american, a christian, or a beekeeper. Then I transferred and had thousands of clubs, and still started my own. Funny how things work out.</p>

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Lol here’s the problem - “management consulting club” is obviously bs. “Consulting” is when someone gives advice in their area of expertise. For example, my mom worked as a manager in a major bank for years and now she’s doing management consulting for finance firms and is really successful with it. The idea of a bunch of 18 year old kids, most of whom have never had a real job, sitting around talking about “management consulting” is pretty funny. If you wanted working experience in consulting or business, it would have made sense to get an internship. Go to your college’s Career counseling center or whatever and talk to them.</p>

<p>Anyway, if you’re looking to make friends in an EC, I recommend an intramural sport where you can meet people and have fun. Or start your own club, other people are probably looking for more options too.</p>

<p>ps - grad schools don’t really care about clubs and such. For science/social sciences, they care about research, recommendations, gre’s and grades. For an MBA, they’ll care about work experience. “Management Consulting Club” will really come across as bs 98% of the time. A relevant internship or job will look much better.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I pretty much figured. But it seemed interesting initially.</p>

<p>I’ll look into the internship option. Thanks!</p>

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<p>His doesn’t really surprise me. I mean for college I can see myself doing the same as you, joining a bunch of clubs that interest you. Then aftera few meetings you kind of already meet the people who have the same interest with you. Instant friends, hang out with them then screw the club meetings. :)</p>

<p>I’m not sure if you’re having trouble meeting someone. But try going up to someone in your club and saying “hey whatever happen to soandso club” “no ****ing idea” " yeah I know let’s chill some time"</p>