SGA 'Let's Get Life Smart' event aims to teach life skills on Feb. 22


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Student Government Association will present a "Let's Get Life Smart" event from 4:45-7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

The event is geared toward helping students learn useful life skills such as healthy living, budgeting, resume-building, how to pay back loans, organizational skills, finding jobs, internships and others.

SGA Registered Student Organization Growth & Development committee chair Mary Chiejina has been working on this event for a year.

“I planned this because I needed it,” Chiejina said. “Last semester, I was figuring this all out, and you have to go to all these different offices that people don’t even know are there. I was like, ‘what if I can make an event that can bring (this information) all together?’”

The event will be split up into three 45-minute sessions with short breaks in between. 

Attendees can choose which three topics they feel their knowledge is lacking in and attend the corresponding workshop.

“I just want people to learn basic life skills – things that your parents might not have had the time to teach you or (you might not be able) to take a class to learn,” Chiejina said.

During the sessions, Academic RSOs, First Impressions and Student Employment Services will be tabling around the Bovee University Center with additional information and services. 

Students will be able to sign up with success coaches from the Office of Student Success to be held accountable and apply any new knowledge gained from the workshops. Success coaches offer services ranging from time management, college adjustment, study habits, budgeting and goal setting.

“We want people to get a window of what campus provides for them, and (provide) a quick learning session,” Chiejina said.

Although the event goes from 4:45 to 7:30 p.m., students can arrive any time between the sessions and leave whenever they please.

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