{"id":4286,"date":"2019-02-27T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:30:07","slug":"humans-of-rc-signed-sealed-delivered-shes-yours-kelsey-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4286","title":{"rendered":"Humans of RC: Signed, Sealed, Delivered, She\u2019s Yours! Kelsey Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

Kelsey Lee is a sophomore from Vienna, VA majoring in environmental studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI guess to state the obvious, I do A LOT on campus.<\/span>I’m an RA and a group fitness instructor teaching Mixed Fit. I’m on the women’s intramural soccer team. I’m president of the Equestrian Club and the Student Firearms Association. I work with the beekeeping club and Young Life, and I go to church with Catholic Campus Ministries, and I think that’s about it<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

People think it\u2019s a little crazy that I take on so much, but I\u2019ve always been this way. In high school I was always super involved, and I guess I learned that from my mom because she\u2019s a busy body herself. My dad always would make fun of us for it, but I just like to stay busy. I was a girl scout; I did all types of sports from gymnastics to bowling, and I never felt like it was too much because I was enjoying everything so much.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the stigma that freshman are intimidated by everything their freshman year is valid, but I just came in and decided that couldn\u2019t be me. I wanted to get the most out of everything, so I just went sign-up crazy and signed up for a bunch of different clubs, and then I just whittled it down to what I really liked whether it was from high school or a new interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having all these groups makes it hard to find a group I can do EVERYTHING with, and all of my groups don\u2019t overlap into this one big family. However, there are some places where there is a little bit of overlap, and that\u2019s always nice to see some consistent faces, but even then I\u2019m a people person. I try to say hi to everyone around campus just to have that feeling of knowing people because it\u2019s such a small school – everyone should have someone to say hi to.<\/span><\/p>\n

My biggest advice for anyone who isn\u2019t involved besides the obvious \u2018get involved\u2019 schtick is to put yourself out there! Sign up for everything, go to the interest meetings, and see what it\u2019s about, and if you don\u2019t like it then that\u2019s fine, but you have to try. People might be hesitant because they don\u2019t like to do something alone, but I think that just the sheer joy of doing something you like or are even interested in, don\u2019t worry about. Everyone is there to have a good time and explore – all you have to do is sign up. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James Kelsey Lee is a sophomore from Vienna, VA majoring in environmental studies. \u201cI guess to state the obvious, I do A LOT on campus.I’m an RA and a group fitness instructor teaching Mixed Fit. I’m on the women’s intramural soccer team. I’m president of the Equestrian Club and the Student Firearms…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}