| The honor societies are a reasonably big deal. I was inducted into chi epsilon (the civil engineering one) as an undergrad and it's been a nice thing to have on my resume.
If swinging the membership fee is going to cause you financial problems, you might want to talk to the faculty sponsor of your chapter. I know that we used to reserve some of our annual budget for people who really couldn't afford membership but really deserved to be in the society... They might do something like that with your society. Maybe not, but it doesn't hurt to ask. |