The Good Things About Association Membership!

Building Trades Association:

“Joining any group or association is quite boring and just wasting my time” that’s what I am thinking before. I think that people there are all weird and I can get nothing from them. But since I become a DOST Scholar I can’t hide myself to join in an association because it is required for us scholars to participate. Since then I become a member of MIDSA (MSU-IIT DOST Scholars Association). At first, I am not active in this association I am too lazy to go to meetings or any gatherings. I want to skip and hide myself. But One day, my co-scholar force me to go to the meeting, at first I say “No” but I can do nothing because he is my best friend and he said that he will not go there if I will not go. Of course, I don’t want that to happen. I don’t want him to be like me and he was the current Vice president of the association. So no choice, I really go there.

As the meeting starts the president start his welcome address and site the agenda of the meeting. From him I learned that the main agenda of the meeting is to select a new set of officers. I was so thankful with my best friend because the DOST Coordinator is there and she checks or attendance, if I am not there I will surely received a demerits. “Wow!!!, thanks God I am here”, that’s what I shout with in. As the selection of new set of goes on, I still stay silent in the corner. I was then amazed when I heard my mine, one of my co-scholars nominated as an auditor. I felt nervous and awake, my heart beats faster, I want to go out and leave the crowd. But since our coordinator is there, I do nothing but to go with the flow.  Since my classmates and friends believe that I can do the task as an auditor, they select me to handle the position.

I accepted the position and start to become active in the group . There I meet new people and become socially motivated. I try to do my best. I accepted the challenge and believe that I can do it. I learned to become open minded and to talk to any type of people. We are the one how facilitate every activities in the group like seminars, parties, leadership trainings and outreach program. I even become a speaker in one of the seminars. I am happy about all this things which I think impossible before.

Building Trades Association:
“Association membership is always a good thing when it comes to getting information,but if you join a few committees and attend meeting regularly it makes it worth while.”

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