Participating in APA orgs at the University of Illinois
I have participated on the boards of two Asian American orgs on the Illinois campus this past semester. As a vice president for the Taiwanese American Students Club and an advocacy chair on the Asian Pacific American Coalition, I’ve found it to be a significant commitment of time. I constantly felt like was not doing enough for these clubs and fear I may have spread myself too thin. However I have a real passion for what these organizations are doing in the community and am committed to putting more into my positions in them this next semester. If there is one thing I have learned from my commitments in them, it is that I am no longer participating in them next year. I just feel that I need to focus more on my filmmaking and major. Nonetheless I am so glad to have been fortunate enough to be part of such a strong APA community in the middle of America. The Asian American community at Illinois is nothing less than amazing, especially in terms of being in the middle of America.
