step #3

Join a committee.
Sometimes, any committee you come across will do.

It's important to create the perception of being a well-rounded individual, and signing your name to a cause can be a great way to begin to do this. The Scientific Advocacy Committee, for example, would be a great selection. If you went to their first meeting of the term earlier this afternoon, you would have learned about how important it is that those who are "in the know," as it were, inform our Oregon-associated politicians about the importance of, say, parkinson's disease research, methamphetamine abuse research, or multiple sclerosis research. This, as it turns out, is never really a difficult thing, but the important thing is to generally avoid using terminology like "demyelinating disease," or "axonal degradation affecting projections from the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens." Such jargon can often times make the politically-minded ill at ease.