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<\/a>By Claudia Sorescu<\/p>\nWhen it comes to ways to get involved with the Students\u2019 Union, I could talk to you for days. I\u2019m really active in societies and clubs (anything from martial arts to volunteering to the Lord of the Rings Society), so I know my way around the Union, and I\u2019ve always been really impressed with how easy it is to become a part of the community here. There\u2019s definitely a feeling of belonging that you get from being here, no matter what you decide to do with your spare time, and I couldn\u2019t love it more.<\/p>\n
For example, I think one of the best ways to get involved here is Bummit, the world\u2019s largest student-led hitch-hike. Every year, a thousand students head out to raise money and awareness for a huge number of charities: jus <\/p>\n The concept is the same, but my team-mate Chris\u2019 and my destination was Manchester, and to keep things interesting, we had a long list of challenges to complete along the way, which went anywhere from having to chase a builder down to tak \u2026to getting a present from Town Hall officials (sadly, our negotiating skills couldn\u2019t get us anything more than a free parking ticket), persuading Chris to get fake nails (he wasn\u2019t impressed), and even running through a fountain- you don\u2019t really want to be com <\/p>\n It sounds like a silly thing to do, but when you\u2019re there you get to meet some kind and amazing Bummit is just one way to get involved here at our Union, but I defi By Claudia Sorescu When it comes to ways to get involved with the Students\u2019 Union, I could talk to you for days. I\u2019m really active in societies and clubs (anything from martial arts to volunteering to the Lord of the Rings Society), so I know my way around the Union, and I\u2019ve always been … Continue reading “How to make the most of what’s on offer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>t one trip last year, from Sheffield to Romania (which is actually where I\u2019m from, so I got to show my more adventurous friends around!), raised more than \u00a385,000 for 9 charities. I\u2019ll admit my inner couch potato was skeptical about the whole hitchhiking thing, until this February, when I got dragged into a smaller version of Bummit called the Rat Race.<\/p>\n<\/a>e a selfie with him\u2026<\/p>\n<\/a>pletely soaked when hitchhiking, but it worked out. We had a somewhat scary walk through Manchester late at night, stumbled upon a brilliant jazz gig by complete accident, and overall had a fantastic time.<\/p>\n<\/a> people that otherwise you wouldn\u2019t have had the chance to speak to. A person we randomly met for a challenge was directly affected by the charity we were raising money for, Children\u2019s Heart Surgery Fund, which suddenly put everything into perspective for us and made our cause tangible.<\/p>\n<\/a>nitely think it\u2019s the most rewarding one. It was a crazy day, but immensely satisfying, and if anything it taught me to take on more challenges and break out of my routine, which this time turned into a chance to make someone\u2019s life better. As they say, sometimes you really just need to take a leap of faith and see where you end up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"