I missed the club fair this week at UTSG and I was wondering where I can go or what I can do to sign up! :))
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hey there,
missing the clubs fair is no big deal. it’s a really helpful and awesome resource for discovering new clubs (while also having a nice lil walk), BUT now that we’re all cyborgs and we’ve sold our souls to the internet, most clubs are active and very easily findable online.
if you know you want to get involved but you’re not sure where to do it, ULife’s list of all campus groups is ground 0. it lists pretty much every organization at uoft alphabetically, and scrolling through just one letter on there is likely to give you acoupla leads.
hart house is another cool hub of extra-curricular activity at the school. they’ve got everything going on, from musical groups to athletic facilities to a class on how not to be self-conscious (seriously). i honestly can’t praise hart house enough. it’s like a rec centre, but more beautiful, cheaper, and with more diverse classes. stay awesome, hart house.
you can also look into getting involved with some student societies on campus, with your own college’s student union, or with the student union associated with a program you may be interested in applying to after first year (assuming you’re a first year student), like the Association of Political Science Students, for example.
finally, searching through askastudent’s extracurricular tag is also a great way to find new opportunities (not our clubs tag; that’s something different).
once you’ve found some things you might be interested in, just track down some contact information for that group and ask how you can sign up. usually, it’s as simple as just coming to the first meeting.
none of the clubs want you to know it, but they actually get really excited when new people join them. don’t tell them i told you that, though – it’ll totally ruin their cool, aloof image.
hoping you find some super stuff to do out there in the big, open ocean of uoft,
aska
P.S. also, i think there are some clubs outside right now (2pm on september 9th) outside sydney smith – i saw a huge crowd there on the way to Aska HQ. just in case you’re in the area right now.
P.P.S. the title of this post is a reference to Disney’s enduring classic, Mulan. askastudent is non-partisan in all issues related to the army, enlisting and our current, global military situation. hashtag stop kony.