This year I was fortunate to attend the XJTU Hundred Clubs event in person, and I’d like to share some random thoughts here.
- When talking with fellow alumni, I learned that students join clubs rather pragmatically, which is understandable: if students can’t gain some benefits from a club (such as volunteer hours or extra points for graduate school recommendation), then the only reason to join would probably be pure passion.
- The school doesn’t seem to value clubs, or at least doesn’t treat them as student groups: when two clubs squeeze together for recruitment, it’s inevitably a bit shabby, and some clubs have many members and many exhibits; relying only on sponsor‑provided materials, they can barely set up.
- This conclusion makes sense: Active members of a club don’t even have to be from this university (though the core members must be), for example some associations also gather enthusiasts from other schools.
- Although not many students join the club recruitment groups, those who do are mostly interested in the clubs (especially volunteer service ones, there are so many people). The conversion rate is expected not to be low, and quite a few actually join (not sure if fellow alumni can confirm).
- Since we’ve made a horizontal comparison, let me add some
: overall, for clubs of the same type, the recruitment group size of is about 3:1 compared to 
, but ’s club communication focuses more on the club’s anchor (e.g., the Wutong Harmonica Club prefers to talk about harmonicas), whereas vividly illustrates this statement:
For example, in club xx you can talk about yy and zz, and even chat about xx 
Another passage I find very reasonable:
In short: people need socialization.
That’s all I will write. I hope clubs across universities can cooperate more and progress together. It was truly lucky to connect with the Wutong Harmonica Club this year.
Also, scrolling here reminded me that I haven’t seen ’s MC club…