Life as an Orientation Leader

When I first came to university, I immediately fell completely in love with everything about it! I had pretty much hated high school, but just within weeks of my first college classes I started loving school. Right at the end of that first semester, I applied to be an Orientation Leader because I was excited about everything and wanted to share that excitement with new students!

From that year on, I continued being an OL and greeting new students every summer. As I’m about to enter my senior year, I’ve sadly come to the realization that this will be my last summer getting to have the best job ever. It’s definitely very bittersweet.

It’s been a great experience, and it pretty much molded me into who I am today. I dove straight into leadership, and because of that so many doors opened for me. I have befriended so many professors, advisors, the Vice Chancellor, and am even friends with our Chancellor now because I followed the route of “leaders and best.” I’ve gotten a chance to help facilitate classes and go on leadership trips and conferences, and just am so thankful for everything that has happened all because I had crazy amounts of school spirit and drive to succeed right from the get-go.

I will miss the opportunity to formally welcome more Wolverines into college life, though I will ALWAYS bleed maize and blue! <3 This is only the beginning.

Go Blue!