| Just like staying involved in your high school, staying | | | | you’ll probably be placed in a very specific place |
| connected with your college—both while | | | | to do a more specific task. You’ll still have the |
| you’re there and after you graduate—is both | | | | choice of what you want to do, of course, but |
| rewarding and important. And while the two have | | | | it’s likely that the options will be tailored to the |
| several things in common, there are different ways in | | | | needs of the school. It’s also fairly likely that |
| which you can maintain your level of involvement in | | | | you’ll be working in a group; groups of alumni |
| your college campus. Because of the great | | | | often gather to do some sort of service project for |
| differences in how high schools and colleges are run, | | | | their college. |
| you’ll have to go about the process a little | | | | Alumni organizations are also good ways to get |
| differently. | | | | involved. Many alumni groups organize regular |
| One of the more immediately obvious differences is | | | | volunteer sessions at their college, and you can hook |
| the way in which you’ll find out about | | | | up with them by contacting your alumni office and |
| opportunities for involvement. Because universities | | | | asking about organizations that stay involved with |
| are so much larger than high schools, there’s | | | | the school. It’s often easier to do it this way, |
| almost sure to be a volunteer coordinator or another | | | | because you might know a few of the people that |
| similar person working there. A good way to go | | | | you’re working with, and at the very least, you |
| about finding this person is to contact your | | | | have something significant in common. A lot of these |
| college’s office of alumniaffairs or alumni council | | | | groups use Facebook or another online social |
| (both of which you should be able to find on the | | | | networking tool to stay in touch, and this makes it |
| school’s website fairly easily). Someone in this | | | | really easy to find out about events that you can |
| group will be able to direct you to who you need to | | | | take part in. |
| talk to. | | | | However you get in contact with your school or an |
| After you talk to the correct university | | | | alumni group, it’s good to get out there and give |
| representative, you’ll probably start noticing | | | | back to your school. You’ll be working for a |
| another significant difference between high school | | | | good cause, get to meet other alumni from your |
| and college in this respect: in college, it’s much | | | | college, and have fun. So, whether you’ve |
| more organized. In high school, it’s often pretty | | | | graduated already or not, find out about doing some |
| informal, and you can just walk in and start helping | | | | volunteer work around your campus. You’ll be |
| out somewhere. At the post-secondary level, | | | | glad you did. |