A: "Be your own advocate...do not let people push you around. It is easy to fall in a trap of doing everything you can to appease everyone and earn their validation, but you need to set boundaries. You can’t let yourself be personally responsible for everyone, so you have to stand up for yourself. Second, closed mouths don’t get fed. If there is something you want you need to communicate that. Do you want to learn more about something, but don’t know where to start? Ask! Do you want to get involved as a leader, but you don’t know how? Ask and/or apply! You know what you want better than anyone can guess, so you must take initiative to get yourself to those places."