Twelve Benefits of Involvement

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Students who get involved are more likely to be satisfied with their college experience and persist to graduation.
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Getting involved makes a student population of 30,000 seem much smaller and more manageable.
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Four or five years of college gets boring without new friends and new experiences!
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Getting involved provides you a sense of connection that you won't have if you hurry from class, to your job, to your off-campus residence.
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Getting involved outside of the classroom reinforces the learning that happens inside the classroom.
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Students who get involved don't think of SJSU as a commuter campus.
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Students who get involved get to make a difference because they learn how to get things done.
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SJSU graduates who are former student leaders are known all over Silicon Valley, you too can be part of this group of doers.
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Students who don't get involved until they are close to graduating regret they didn't do it sooner.
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Students who get involved learn important life skills and grow in ways that they weren't expecting.
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Employers want to hire people who know how to work with others.
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It's true, you will get out of SJSU and your college experience what you put into it!