<p>I’m a transfer student, so this is my second week here at this school. My major is Criminal Justice, and this school has a CJ club. Their first meeting is on Thursday. How do club members feel about Juniors joining? Do they prefer new members to be Freshmen? I am very shy, so I feel like I won’t fit in because I am a new student there and I’m quiet. </p>
<p>What do you all think? </p>
<p>Why wouldn’t they be happy to have you? There’s no reason not to join a club if it interests you!
I just got recruited to join my school’s cycling club this fall. I’ll be a senior, and I’ve been here for all of college. But I’m still looking forward to getting a chance to meet new people to bike with.</p>
<p>Go for it!</p>
<p>Ok, that makes me feel better about the situation. I guess I’m just nervous about not being able to meet people since most of them have been in the club since the beginning. </p>
<p>You’re a new arrival, you should be joining things! Probably there won’t be a lot of other new juniors, but I am sure that all the members will be curious to meet you, and welcoming. Introduce yourself and tell them where you transferred from and why you want to be in the criminal justice club. It’s a natural ice breaker and way easier than meeting random people in the cafeteria.</p>
<p>Where I teach, a lot of new club members are juniors. Unlike the first and second years, who sometimes are too shy or afraid of overloading their schedule with clubs, juniors seem to see the value of joining a group of like-minded people.</p>
<p>Every org I’ve been in has had their share of members that joined as a sophomore, junior, and senior. There’s nothing weird about joining after your freshman year. Many people will try out some clubs their freshman and sophomore year, not wish to continue them, and instead join different clubs their junior and senior year. Freshman have accounted for a plurality of all of my orgs and since they just arrived to college, they don’t have many friends so there should always be a good amount of people that are looking to be making friends. Making friends is the number one reason for joining orgs for some people.</p>
<p>They don’t care when members join. I was also a junior transfer student and I joined two clubs relevant to my interests. Besides, some students don’t join clubs till they’re an upperclassmen, and that’s okay. Not to mention, there’s nothing wrong about trying out new clubs the next year if you’re curious about them. </p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone. I went to the meeting today and everyone were either Juniors or Seniors, there were only two that weren’t. It seems like they were glad to have me since currently there are only 8 members in the club. </p>
<p>I’m sure they’d be glad to have a new member. Since you’re transferring from a different school, you may be able to provide some new perspectives, and you might be able to learn some new perspectives from them as well. Clubs are typically quite happy to gain new members. </p>