Lots of things aren’t easy and jerks have to be somewhere. You are not an elephant. You are a person with interests and something to share and something to learn from others. I 'm sure your made at least a quiet connection with the members in order to become an officer in the History Club. Accept that you are probably reading room/Honors building thing all wrong and decide to respond as though things are as we say they are. Don’t trust that negative, critical voice.