Student Shout-Out: Alyssa on the GO Team!

Today’s “Student Shout-Out” spotlights sophomore Communication Studies major Alyssa Micciche and her work on the GO Team. The Get Oriented (GO) Team is a group of about 30-35 USF students that lead the incoming new student orientation weekend. This is an important job because GO Team members are responsible for ensuring that our brand new students have a great time during their first few days on campus. They really help make a positive first impression. I asked Alyssa about her work on the GO Team.

Alyssa with The Don (I'm jealous)

“I got involved because I had such a wonderful experience at my orientation and I really admired my GO Team leader. I wanted to be someone that the new students could look up to. After being a GO Team leader this past year, I was encouraged to apply to be a team leader. Team leaders act as liaison between orientation leaders (OLs) and our professional staff. Also, they plan all of orientation from the evening events, to OL training, and uniforms. Currently, I am a team leader for GO Team and my project areas are Orientation Leader recruitment and GO Team uniforms.” Alyssa’s currently interviewing potential OLs and looking at designs for uniforms. Ahhh… uniforms. I spent eight years wearing a uniform and loved it!

I also asked Alyssa if her Communication Studies background has helped her at all with her work on orientation (a bit of a leading question, I know!). “I believe that my Communication Studies background has really helped me with my work in GO Team because communication skills are something we look for in OLs. When dealing with new students it is extremely important to be able to have the ability to figure out what they need and the best way to answer their questions or help them in any other way. I love working with GO Team because it has given me so many opportunities. I have been able to gain valuable skills such as interviewing, leading groups of 40-50 people, and public speaking. I would encourage everyone to get involved with GO Team if they are interested because it is a lot of fun and you get to be the new students’ first impression of USF.”

Working on new student orientation is a really important job on campus and these students are excellent representatives for our university. Congratulations to Alyssa and the entire GO Team!