This past Tuesday, we hosted our virtual club fair—NU Engage! We heard from our 15 (and counting!) student organizations, played some trivia, shared resources, and gathered some amazing words of wisdom from our NU student community!
If you’re feeling lost, don’t know where to start, or need a little encouragement—keep reading for advice, resources, and more!
A key theme in our discussion was student organizations. Getting involved in clubs helps with your professional development, allows you to find and create community, and build strong co-curricular skills! But don’t just take our word for it–here are some reasons why club leadership is important from your fellow students:
For Law Students, leadership roles are good for networking and connections, plus post graduation connections/events/conferences.
[It] helps others and [allows you to] discover more.
It provides support, guidance, and unity!
In addition, we received tips from current students on:
Staying organized:
Plan things out in advance, and schedule yourself, especially if you are online. If you do get behind though, definitely still turn stuff in so you learn the material and still get some points. Some points are better than none.
Have a planner and have a whiteboard of your assignments, print out everything at the start, have a binder for each class with every week separated.
On maintaining a work/life/school balance:
Get your family on board. They will miss you, at least at some points, so they need to be supportive through foreknowledge.
On advocating for yourself and using the wide array of resources available to you at NU:
Do a wellness check up.
Reach out to your professors. Don’t be afraid to ask questions when something isn’t clear.
Start collecting a network!
Fun Fact: A great place start building a network and finding a mentor is through our NU Mentoring Network!
Make friends in Career Services! They’re awesome!
Did you know our career services team offers free workshops, resume and cover letter review, mock interviews, career advising, and more? They’re pretty great!
Utilize all the great learner and support resources that are available!
In addition to the resources above, we also wanted to highlight our Student Wellness, Whole Person Center, Academic Success Center, Alumni Association, and Virtual Veterans Center offices!
To end, we’d like to share these words of encouragement by one of your fellow students:
As someone in my last course MSW, my advice is to persevere and not give up, it may seem impossible but giving up is worse. All of us have bad moments and that is a time to rest and reflect while having a positive outlook and opinion of self.
Your NU community is rooting for you. Wings up! 🤙
The CSEA Student Voice 