I first saw the UCLA Club on convocation day and I was a bit confused because I was like why are they promoting a school in California here at Baruch. Later that day I was handed a flyer for that same club and I found out UCLA stood for “United Chinese Language Association”. The flyer told me that the first General Interest Meeting was on the next Thursday so I was like aii cool. I didn’t intend on joining at first because I wanted to check out the other clubs to see if anything appealed to me and sadly, nothing else did. I asked a few friends if they wanted to come with me to the first GIM and they agreed. At first I didn’t expect much because honestly I went for the food but after finding out what the club was about, I became more interested. The executive board introduced themselves and went through the PowerPoint explaining what they do in the club and what they strive to accomplish as a team. What really sealed the deal for me was when we played two ice breaker games. We played a weird game where 3 people asked each other questions back and forth based on the scenario and whoever couldn’t come up with any more questions was disqualified (a bit confusing, I know). The second game was Pictionary and it’s basically when someone draws a picture and their team members have to guess what it is.
Peep me in the white shirt drawing something because nobody wanted to volunteer and my friends forced me to go up.
Carrying on, that day was honestly my favorite day of the week because not going to lie, my first week at Baruch was the best (I want to blame the weather). After meeting new people at the club and laughing a lot, I saw what it’s like to have fun in college and that was when I realized hey, college isn’t so bad. I finally understand why many people encourage you to join clubs because it’s the only way you’ll have fun and be sane. Not to mention you get to meet awesome, new people. In the end, I did not get food but I was able to join an amazing club and I can’t wait to go to future events to embrace and learn about Chinese culture.
