Among Kelley’s 60+ student organizations is one focusing on health and wellness. A plant care workshop is one fun activity that is part of Balance Week, scheduled annually before winter final exams.
Making a friend – a real connection – is one of the best parts of college. An even better part is being able to find friends within a community who can help you grow, personally and professionally.
This could be a team member in your freshman year business presentations groups that you still see weekly your senior year. It could also mean joining a business fraternity and making friends from every year at college who can become mentors to you.
At Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, the sense of community is one that you cannot find anywhere else. Kelley’s 60+ organizations are a great place to get involved and find the friends who will be with you throughout college and beyond. For example, the Fall Involvement Fair on campus and Winterfest are two great places where students can get an introduction to all the clubs at Kelley. These events give students the opportunity to go up to members of different clubs, ask questions, and hear about their experiences.
Many students participating in the Kelley’s annual Habitat for Humanity build are involved with the Kelley Institute for Social Impact, which serves as a hub within the school for socially conscious undergraduate students who want to make a difference in local and global communities through education, service, career development and leadership opportunities.
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
The Kelley Honors Program has been the organization that has helped me develop the most during my time at Kelley. My experience started with getting to be in smaller classes with other Honors students, giving me friendly faces in other classes and clubs. This turned into having mentors in the program who helped me navigate small things such as course scheduling to bigger things like preparing for interviews.
At the same time, getting to be an Honors I-Core Mentor, while simultaneously fulfilling my Honors Senior Capstone requirement, has made me even more appreciative of the advisors, peers, and mentors I have had.
When you combine the IU and Kelley student organizations, it can be overwhelming to choose the ones where you want to apply. I put a lot of weight into the conversations that I have had with organization members. Talking to as many students as you can in these organizations will help you figure out which ones are right for you.
When you meet with these students, ask them how the people in the organization have helped them. Go beyond how the organization prepared them for interviews or with classes; ask them about fun events they’ve enjoyed and memories they have with other club members. Ask them about their hobbies and how they have made time to continue them or learn new ones at college. If you can see yourself not only being friends with the members but also wanting to learn from them, then it’s likely that organization is going to be a good fit for you.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Another important question to ask yourself is this: What mix of organizations do you want to be a part? Kelley has professional business fraternities that offer opportunities for development through professional and social events. In addition, Kelley Honors and the ACE program emphasize working in teams, being a leader, and challenging yourself with your coursework.
Every club that you could want to be a part of either already exists on the Indiana University campus or you can gather a group of peers and start it. Most, if not all organizations, hold call-out meetings after the club fair, to give potential new members a chance to see how meetings run and reasons why they should consider applying because of the experiences they will get.
Shireen Sahrawat
Getting involved is not limited to student orgs. You can choose to do research with a professor, be a TA for a class, or volunteer in Bloomington. For me, the IU-wide organization, Volunteer Corps, was a way for me to spend time volunteering in Bloomington and meet students from a variety of schools at IU. It has been an awesome way to make Bloomington feel more like home and make friends who I probably wouldn’t have been able to meet through classes, or business-only organizations.
Any organization you join at Kelley will be a great place for you to make friends, grow as a business student, develop as a person, and offer you the chance to give back as you advance through your time at Kelley.
Shireen Sahrawat is an undergraduate student at the Kelley School of Business, studying Finance with a minor in Creative Writing. Shireen is involved with Kelley’s Capital Markets & Banking Workshop and Indiana University’s WTS as a Writing Tutor. She is excited to combine her love for writing with the experiences she’s had at school to give you a glimpse into the community she is grateful to be a part of at Kelley.
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