<p>I had another thread in this section with some questions, but I wanted to make a new one with two specific questions about entering engineering.</p>
<p>1.) Being an engineering major what type of college activities and clubs should you be joining in? (are there any types of club that are not great to join in a sense) When it comes to getting a job after college or getting a masters how important is it to have to clubs and organizations you joined on your resume?</p>
<p>2.) How do you get ready for physics and chemistry especially when you haven't taken them in over a year? I took chem 9th and physics 11th, but I want to really be ready where I know everything I'm going to learn. Is there a good website or book that can be used as a great review?</p>
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<li>Your social activities will be limited by the amount of academic work you have. I’d recommend joining a club directly related to your interests and a club not directly related to your interests (e.g. The Math Club & L’Alliance Francaise). If you can manage a few other clubs, more power to you. Don’t waste your time trying to do a hundred different things; focus on your studies and limit your “clubbing” to a level that does not affect your studies.</li>
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<p>1b. If the clubs you join are open to anyone, you may safely omit them from your resume or you may keep them there to show hiring managers you are not a complete drone. If you are accepted to honor societies, put them under “awards, recognitions, achievements.” </p>
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<li>Find some applications-based physics/chemistry books and do the exercises on them. For experimentation, you may do some experiments at home but I do not recommend that for safety reasons. Proceed at your own risk.</li>
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<p>Don’t join clubs or do activities just because you’re “supposed to”; do those that you are interested in. If anything, it’s internships (or research if you choose a career in academia or a PhD) that are most important for getting a job after college.</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean being in a related club or organization won’t help. In college, I had a leadership role in ASCE as well as with the steel bridge team and that came up in most of my interviews.</p>
<p>I’m not joining clubs just to have them on my record. I’m looking for stuff to get my mind going and help me gain some experience when possible. But when it comes to clubs like a Anime club would you say just do that if your interested and don’t put it on your resume? I think I may just do chess club and an engineering club.</p>