Part-time jobs, community service hours, summer internships, extracurricular clubs, sororities, and sports are all excellent ways to strengthen your time management abilities along with social, teamwork, and leadership skills. Moreover, participating in any combination of these activities broadens your span of knowledge as you are constantly picking up new bits (and sometimes, loads!) of information that pertain to different areas of life.

It is very easy to overload your schedule without initially noticing. The diverse and sometimes conflicting events can create so many deadlines, dates, and details to remember that you may forget why you are even partaking in the event to begin with.

Here is a reminder that you should choose to do things based on having the opportunity to absolve your ignorance to a particular subject area while striving to excel to the next level of knowledge rather than doing something simply to add it to your resume.

While it is definitely important to maintain a resume that is up-to-date with all of your involvements, it is more important to realize why you are involved with each of those activities. Truly understanding that the primary reason for anything you do is not for bragging rights or adding some spice to your credentials is necessary in order for you to thrive as the development into a more well-rounded person occurs. As a result, you will have a clearer vision of the takeaway points you attained from your endeavor.

Furthermore, whether it is choosing to be on a certain committee or assisting in community service events, all of the activities that you participate in give you an opportunity to provide somebody else with assistance. You can change lives through the decisions that you make; it feels so good knowing that you can be a positive influence in the lives of others.

Ultimately, it is your choice on what activities you pursue and how you go about doing so. However, it is an important notion to keep in mind why you are pursuing certain activities. If the main motivation is that you want to fill up your resume for show, then maybe you need to take a step back and realize some of the other results that come from different experiences. Work hard, persevere, and strive for excellence in all of your endeavors for the opportunity to increase your personal knowledge and to be a positive influence for those around you.