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Here are some tips for submitting to convention: Presenting at convention is one of the best experiences you can have in academia. More importantly, it will help you gain confidence-not to mention it will look great on your CV! I encourage you all to take a chance and apply for the 2018 Convention. You may feel a sense of belonging or find that you love presenting. You’ll have the chance to try local food and you’ll listen to ideas you might not have previously considered. Faculty members, undergraduate students, graduate students, and more all attend the convention. We cannot grow and we cannot learn if we always let our fears hold us back. If you’re hesitating to submit a paper to convention-if you believe you don’t have what it takes-I encourage you to submit anyway.

Left to Right: Mercedes selling T-shirts at the chapter merchandise sales during the 2017 Convention Sigma Tau Delta Red & Black Gala Dinner Mercedes with her candidate ribbon after running for High Plains Student Representative during the 2017 Convention.

Toto and I may not have been in Kansas anymore, but we had found our people! I applied for the High Plains Student Representative position-and now here I am. At this convention, I decided to take another leap. I traveled all the way to Louisville, KY I ate food I would have never tried before I listened to other papers that enlightened me and peaked my interest. For me, attending the Sigma Tau Delta 2017 International Convention was my first time ever out of Kansas.

There is so much to learn and, often, it is an opportunity to travel. The thrill and excitement of having a paper accepted to present at a convention paled, however, in comparison to attending the event. A paper I had written for a class-and it had been accepted? I was over the moon. I had no confidence it would be accepted, but it was! I couldn’t believe it! This was a paper I had written while helping direct a high school debate tournament. Still slightly unconvinced, I submitted a paper on Henry James. They told me that presenting at the Sigma Tau Delta convention would look good on a CV for graduate school and let me know that I had nothing to lose if my paper was not accepted-although they were certain it would be.

As I progressed toward my senior year, my teachers encouraged me to apply for graduate school and submit to convention. In my mind, convention was something for graduate students or those whose papers were much better than mine. When I first started down my degree path of a BA in English Language and Literature I had no intentions of applying for, or attending, the Sigma Tau Delta convention as an undergraduate. Time is running out, so if you’ve been on the fence about whether to submit, read on to learn a bit about the value of presenting at conferences as an undergraduate. In this week’s blog, High Plains Student Representative Mercedes Lubbers shares her experience of submitting a paper to and attending the 2017 Convention. The deadline to submit to the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention in Cincinnati, OH, is Monday, October, 30 at 5 p.m.