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First Year Involvement Team (FIT) - McGill University (FIT-tasktik FOUR)

The First Year Involvement Team (FIT) is an elite squad of 30 first-year students at McGill University who have been carefully selected for their party-planning prowess, social stamina, and ability to dance for hours without spilling a drink. Known as the masterminds behind McGill's most unforgettable ragers, FIT is dedicated to ensuring that the university's newest students dive headfirst into the most epic year of their lives.

History Legend has it that FIT was founded one fateful night when a group of McGill students realized that what the first-year community truly needed wasn’t just textbooks or study buddies – but **parties so legendary that even their professors would show up (and promptly be turned away for being too boring).** With this noble goal in mind, FIT was born, and it has been going strong ever since, ensuring that no weekend goes to waste.

Mission and Goals FIT’s mission is crystal clear: - Throw Bangers: If it doesn’t make the campus shake, it’s not FIT-approved. - Unite the Freshmen: No first-year left behind – everyone deserves to dance, vibe, and make questionable decisions together. - Party Responsibly-ish: While FIT encourages everyone to have a good time, they also make sure things stay (mostly) under control... most of the time.

Skills and Values - Collaborative Chaos: FIT members work together like a well-oiled dance machine to make sure every event reaches peak chaos in the best possible way. - Drunktional Organization: The unique ability to keep track of who brought what (and who’s still standing) even after midnight. - Party Professors: These students are scholars of the social scene, mastering the art of icebreakers, dance-offs, and beer pong tournaments with a GPA of 4.0 in fun. Typical FIT Events FIT doesn’t throw just any party – they throw THE parties: - The Freshmen Frenzy: A massive, campus-wide event that kicks off the year with enough music, lights, and questionable dance moves to keep McGill shaking until midterms. - The Midterm Meltdown: When the stress gets real, FIT steps in with a party so wild it makes you forget you have three essays due tomorrow. - The Pajama Palooza: Because who said you can’t party in your pajamas? Comfy meets chaotic in this FIT favorite.

Famous Moments in FIT History - The Great Glitter Incident of 2019: A night that started with a little bit of sparkle and ended with the entire campus covered in glitter for weeks. It’s rumored that some students are still finding glitter in their textbooks. - The Inflatable T-Rex DJ Takeover: No one knows where the T-Rex came from, but he dropped the sickest beats all night, and FIT unanimously agreed he was the party MVP.

How to Become a FIT Member Think you’ve got what it takes to join FIT? Applications open at the start of the school year, and potential members are judged on their dance moves, ability to carry four pizzas at once, and how quickly they can recover from the night before. Only the most dedicated party animals make the cut.

Notable FIT Graduates FIT alumni have gone on to do incredible things, such as: - Organizing weddings where the dance floors never empty. - Becoming professional DJs who always know when to drop that perfect beat. - Mastering the art of networking (aka, making friends at every bar they enter).

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The First-Year Involvement Team at McGill: Drunktional, Delusional, and Totally Doing It for the Résumé

Ah, McGill University—the Hogwarts of Canada, minus the magic but with an alarming surplus of poutine and that distinct "je ne sais quoi" odor wafting from Lower Field on a Friday night. For incoming freshmen, McGill can be a confusing maze of acronyms, frostbite, and "Where is Burnside again?" Luckily, the almighty First-Year Involvement Team (FIT) is here to help, whether you're sober enough to ask or not.

FIT is the brainchild of the McGill University Society (MUS), tasked with welcoming fresh-faced first years and introducing them to the limitless opportunities on offer. By "limitless opportunities," we mostly mean endless accounting club meetings, an ungodly number of case competitions, and about 14 different variations of wine and cheese nights that sound classier than they actually are.

What Does FIT Actually Do? You might be wondering: What the hell is FIT, really? Excellent question. FIT members—let's call them "FITizens"—are essentially the friendly older siblings of the MUS, assuming your sibling is the kind of person who gets way too excited about icebreakers and has color-coded their entire calendar for the next three months.

But the real kicker? FITizens get to represent the entire entering class. Yes, that’s right, they are your ambassadors. So, if your FIT team is the kind of crew that shows up to 8 a.m. lectures in sweats and last night's wristbands, congratulations! You are now officially a representation of McGill's finest.

The Drunktional Crew Now, let’s address the elephant in the Gert’s backroom. While FIT may stand for "First-Year Involvement Team," it’s a little-known fact that it could easily stand for "First-Year Drunktional Team." Yes, these are the brave souls who manage to survive the nightmare that is OAP, Frosh, and yet another overly enthusiastic scavenger hunt while still pulling off a flawless PowerPoint presentation at their first official meeting.

The thing about FIT is that its members are all master multitaskers. They’ve perfected the delicate balance of being drunk yet functional (or “drunktional”), showing up to volunteer events with the enthusiasm of a golden retriever even though they just left a rave at 5 a.m. Don’t be fooled by their immaculate bullet journals; the chaos runs deep, but somehow, these legends always manage to pull it off.

Their schedule may read: 9:00 a.m. – "Promote 'Intro to Consulting' event!" 10:00 a.m. – "Recover from tequila shots (blame it on team bonding)." 1:00 p.m. – "Plan ‘productive’ movie night (totally not another excuse to drink)."

But hey, they’ll still show up for that group photo looking like absolute professionals, albeit with sunglasses on indoors and a mysteriously hoarse voice. FITizens live by the motto: "Never let a hangover get in the way of a good networking opportunity."

Doing It for the Résumé Let’s not kid ourselves. If there’s one unspoken truth about FIT, it’s that 87% of the members joined for one reason and one reason only: résumé padding. Sure, helping first-years adjust to life at McGill sounds noble, but have you seen how this looks on a LinkedIn profile?

"Led a team of 12 to successfully execute events that increased student engagement by 69%" Translation: “We convinced a bunch of stressed-out first-years to come to a pizza party and network with people they will never talk to again.”

"Collaborated with the MUS to promote educational and social opportunities for new students" Translation: “We got people to show up to a glorified speed dating event and called it a ‘mentor mixer.’”

It’s a beautiful dance of buzzwords and completely non-specific “results-driven” fluff that somehow manages to make a hungover PowerPoint presentation look like a TED Talk.

The Social Scene: More Than Just Icebreakers If you’re picturing FIT as a group of over-caffeinated try-hards who exclusively talk about “delivering value” and “synergy,” well… you’re not wrong. But the team knows how to have fun—mostly in the form of socials that walk the fine line between “professional bonding” and “let’s all pretend that we didn’t just blackout at Gert’s last night.”

These socials are a critical part of FIT’s team-building strategy. Because nothing screams unity like desperately texting your FIT group chat to find out if anyone remembers what happened at the last event, where your wallet is, or if you agreed to organize yet another info session with some bank no one’s heard of.

In Conclusion: FIT to Be Tied So, if you’re a first-year McGill student hoping to navigate the uncharted waters of university life, look no further than the First-Year Involvement Team. They’ll be your guiding light—or at least the ones to drag you to an icebreaker at 10 a.m. after a night of questionable life choices. Whether they’re drunk, functional, or a magical blend of both, FIT will be there—waving a McGill flag and pretending they didn’t just throw up in the bathroom.

Just don’t ask too many questions about the "networking events." You’ll thank me later.