What do you hope to get from a prevet club?
Hi y'all! This is off topic from what's normally on this subreddit, but I wanted to ask what you guys feel is most helpful for you as a prevet student in a prevet club at university. Me and a few friends started a completely new prevet club at our uni, and I feel lost as to what to do with our general meetings. Right now I'm proposing we operate on a biweekly meeting schedule with a 1 workshop every month. We already have class registration advising as a given workshop when registration opens, and I was thinking of others being like advice for writing a personal statement, making a 4 year plan for our freshmen, mock interviews, suture kit day etc. I'm thinking the workshops should be more soft things related to being prevet that we can do on campus. Obviously outside of that we are trying to partner with some local clinics to try to get a few shadowing spots we can rotate members through so everyone can build their vet hours and we are looking into local shelters for volunteering spots to gain animal hours.
I feel pretty solid in this plan but I don't know what to do during the biweekly meetings. They're at night and run an hour because a lot of us have the last lab timeslot any given day of the week, so I want them to feel worth going to for everyone. In theory right now the general meetings are meant to build community so all the prevets can actually meet each other and connect. My only thought is making these meetings like study and hangout nights, but I do think that's going to lose people. What do you guys think and what would make you guys feel like wanting to go (especially if youre an upperclassman)?