"My AIESEC Experience" by Rasangi Kannangara

University life is not only lectures, presentations, reports, exams and other academic related stuff. It’s a mixture of academic and other extracurricular activities. My university life would have been boring if not for AIESEC. Even though I have only 2 years experience upto now as an AIESECer it has already given me memories for a  lifetime.

I joined AIESEC mistaking the organization as a charitable institute because I love doing charity. But with the time pass I got to know that my initial idea was not true but yet had to retain since I didn’t want to join another organization in the middle. While I was repenting on selecting this JXLDS 4.0 came. It was a Local committee conference and participated it as a delegate in 2014. Thanks for the conference  I understood  that there are many skills I have to develop to be a quality undergraduate and many responsibilities to deliver to the world I live as a citizen. Motivation was up and then got selected for my first ever project  API 3.0 as an organizing committee vise president in matching. Yet had no idea what my role was. But because of my Co OCVP and other experienced team members explored another side which I have never seen before. That was my first GCDP project and was a milestone in my life. Developed myself a lot and identified many hidden potentials. We were the first to cover all 9 provinces in GCDP projects and I was ecstatic by our achievement. More over it gave me a family.

NATCON 2015 was the first national conference I attended and it showed me the path to build myself and to guide my members as a team leader. Then I was appointed as the team leader in an initiative project ‘ Green Footprints’. But to be honest I wasn’t a successful team leader. But again all the failures, problems came taught me a lot.

The biggest national conference NLDS 2015 was another milestone in my AIESEC story and I got selected  as one co ocvps for delegates. I could step out of my comfort zone and I could develop many skills thanks to NLDS.
AIESEC will help you for sure to create your own demand by make you a quality undergraduate since it is the best platform to develop skills and identify hidden potentials. Also the best place for networking. And  the best option to enjoy the degree.
It’s always good to be an AIESECer.




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