If you are fed up with doing the same old thing day in day out why not have a look through the range of societies we have to offer at AUSA? With 100+ societies there is something for everyone!
If you have any queries or problems then please feel free to contact Sean McNally, President for Societies, at pres.societies@abdn.ac.uk
You can also contact the Vice president for societies at evp.societies@abdn.ac.uk.
Join the Societies Facebook page!
For those of you who are looking to apply for the King's Awards or would just like to know more about them click on the following link.
Application is now open for individual Society awards. Nominatins close on the 24th of February and completed applications should be emailed to societies@abdn.ac.uk or dropped in to the Butchart Centre
Society Awards application form
Welcome from President for Societies
Hello and welcome!
What’s a society?
How do I join?
What sort of societies are there?
What sort of activities do they do?
If these are some of the questions in your mind – read on!
My name's Sean McNally, and for this year I’ll be your President for Societies and Student Activities. Anything society related, pop and see me, or drop me an email – completely happy to answer anything!
A society – well it’s best described in the process.
1) You try out a society, go along to their first event – bit scary, I know, but trust me, there’ll be a bunch of people there just like you – and the people who run the society, or are returning are those lovely smiley people who’ll come up to you with friendly chat!
2) You do the activity, this could be dancing, paintballing, acting, reading, writing etc. whatever – through this you’ll meet a ton of people.
3) You go back the following week – you meet more people, more smiley chatty individuals, who this time, may buy you a drink!
4) You go back the following week – and, wait a minute, you’re now one of those lovely smiley chatty people, and (if the student loans come in) you’re offering to buy them a drink! You’ve just made some friends for life!
Ok – so its not all about meeting those lovely smiley chatty people – but that’s a big part of it! You also learn a ton of new skills, have the opportunity to enter competitions, write a book, act in a play, direct a play, sing, dance, learn a language, learn about a new culture, join the bone marrow register, learn first aid, change the world – heck even see the world – we have societies sending people to Tanzania, Nepal, Romania, Paris, Poland!
Have you seen your CV lately? Is it looking a little sparse? Is it a blank page with your name at the top? By joining one society, you’ll be able to write a novel by the end of your time here – now think if you joined 10 societies! That’s 10 novels – who wouldn’t want to employ a novelist? Or at least someone who can write and talk loads about their experiences at University, without it starting with ‘I once studied this course...’
At the end of the day – there are hundreds of thousands of people leaving University, all with the same qualification you have – join a society, have fun, make new friends, live life to the fullest – and I guarantee, by the time you leave – that blank page with your name at the top and your qualifications will be booming with exciting stories, skills and interests you have proven you have – simply by joining a society!
How could you not join a society?
Still not convinced? Come in and see me or send me an email.
Sean McNally
President for Societies and Student Activities