In high school, I thought I was extremely involved. Oh, how wrong I was.
I’ve always been the type of person who keeps busy, gets involved and takes on many different opportunities. However, it wasn’t until I got to college that I actually realized the true meaning of leadership and being busy.
Though leadership skills are something a person develops throughout their entire lifetime, I can truly say that college has taught me in a very short time how to be a leader.
In high school, I had a fear of putting myself out there in situations where I would not know the outcome. While I do think that I took every opportunity I could in high school, I was nowhere near the person I am today.
Currently, as a sophomore in college, I am in my second year as a student government senator, president of a nationally-recognized honor society, post-production manager of Cabrini’s television news, assistant editor of the newspaper, upcoming assistant operations manager for the radio station and even more.
My first semester at college, I was tasked with setting up and running an arts and crafts event for one of the clubs I had just joined. Nothing major, just buying some arts supplies, advertising and sitting in a lobby while students came to de-stress.
I was terrified. Planning an event on my own? I had no clue how to get people to attend, but I also didn’t want to seem like I couldn’t handle the responsibility, so I took it on.
The event went extremely well, and gave me the confidence to continue growing, eventually assuming the various leadership positions I listed above. By last semester (a year later), I was able to plan a similar event, but on a much larger scale, taking multiple students to volunteer to do crafts in the children’s center of a Delaware hospital around Christmas.
Nobody knows exactly what he or she is doing when they take on a new position, and nobody knows exactly what will happen. I want to thank every opportunity I’ve had so far in college for pushing me out of my comfort zone and into the person I am today.