I encourage students to get involved early because that's how you start developing those relationships, networking with other students, certainly networking with speakers. And the more you build that comfort level and those leadership skills and getting involved, the better off you're going to be when you graduate.
They say it makes it really easy to go out and get involved in different student organizations. The organizations that I've had contact with were the Student Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi.
They bring in speakers of all kinds from different public and private accounting and just different business accounting topics. And that's really valuable going forward. And also you get to create a better connection with a lot of professors too, which is great.
For example, the Pi Sigma Epsilon students go compete at regional [and] national competitions, and what a great experience for them. And Sales Ambassadors, recruiting students to our program and learning how to present and talk to people as part of that recruiting process, which feeds directly to their skill development as salespeople.
So these different organizations, they're also just fun. The students get together and do fun things, you develop those friendships, and that's an important part of college.
So in K-State Accounting, we have three different student organizations. So we have Student Accounting Society, we have, which is called, "SAS." We have Beta Alpha Psi. And we have our "IMA," Institute of Management Accountants student group as well.
It lets them get engaged with our corporate partners on the industry side. It lets them get engaged with our corporate partners on the public side. It also lets them get engaged with other students as well. I think you never know when a student is going to work for a company that you want to move to and that network will be key to your success.
