Friends of the interweb,
I have totally slacked off since finishing school last Tuesday (read: I caught up on sleep), so I failed to upload my latest completed task! Well it's not actually fully completed but let me explain...
I feel like a huge part of university life is finding "your" community, your niche if you will. I really admire students who come into university, know exactly where they want to get involved, and quickly rise to the top of their club/service. It's impressive. But obviously, this wasn't my story.
My arrival at McGill was like a giant wake-up slap, and for the first couple of years, my full-time job was to try and find my footing. Even now, I still struggle with the perfect life-school-sleep balance. (Most students actually joke you can only have two of the three.) Then last year, I finally felt like I had things semi-under control, so I went searching for my extracurricular calling.
It was actually really easy to zone in on what I wanted to do: help girls in engineering. Not help like suicide prevention, but help like build a community, a kind of sisterhood... Totally not bra-burning crazies, just more like support for trying times (venting about the lack of hygiene in engineering) and social activities to make new friends (talk about clothes instead of science for once?).
So I joined POWE (Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering). I threw myself in a position where I had zero experience (VP University Affairs) and we rebuilt the committee from the ground up, since a lot (almost all) of the members had graduated and left.
I feel like this post is already too long and chicken-soup-for-the-soul-esque, so I will end it, but I will say that going into next year as POWE's co-president, I totally found my niche. And girls just like me who can talk makeup/clothes/boys/pop culture with the same intent and depth as any engineering topic.
Oh the joys of well-rounded women.
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