Patriot Experience
The Patriot Experience is Mason’s guided student involvement program designed to help students find their areas of interest outside the classroom and support their own Mason experience.
Patriot Experience is self-paced, self-exploratory, connects students to different services and resources on campus, and designed to enhance your student experience at Mason.
Mission: The Patriot Experience provides students with a focused approach to prepare for life after Mason by developing life skills through self-directed experiential learning.
Vision: The Patriot Experience adds intentionality to the student experience.
Our Core Tracks
There are three core tracks of the Patriot Experience program: Career Readiness, Well-Being, and Global Citizenship. Items within the Patriot Experience tracks have been intentionally identified to support a students’ Mason experience, their own definition of success, and post-graduate success.
Every fall, Patriot Experience has a First Year Challenge (FYC) for incoming freshman and transfer students to get connected to Mason and learn about the resources, experiences, and opportunities available at Mason. Students participating in the FYC are challenged to complete fifteen (15) items over the course of the fall semester.
Career Readiness
- Attend a Career Services Event
- Create an Industry Resume
- Create your Handshake Profile
- Meet with a Career Counselor or Industry Advisor in Career Services
- Join a Registered Student Organization (RSO)
- Take the MBTI
- Take the CliftonStengths
- Take on a Leadership Role
- Meet with a Career Counselor or Industry Advisor in Career Services
- Meet with your Academic Advisor
- Meet with your Success Coach
- Obtain a Job or Federal Work Study Position
- Participate in a Job Shadow or Employer Site Visit
- Participate in a Leadership Training Event or Workshop
- Attend an On-Campus Conference
- Complete an Internship
- Create a Personal Statement for a Grad School Application
Well-Being
- Complete Mason’s Resilience Badge in Blackboard
- Complete online well-being assessment
- Complete e-checkup (alcohol or marijuana) assessment
- Attend Mindful Mason
- Attend a well-being event or program
- Attend a social event or program
- Attend a personal safety/health event
- Explore physical well-being
- Participate in BurnAlong
- Complete the Academic Integrity Honor Code Certificate
- Attend a social event or program
- Attend a personal safety/health event
- Explore physical well-being
- Participate in BurnAlong
- Complete the Academic Integrity Honor Code Certificate
Global Citizenship
- Participate in a LEAD workshop
- Watch a TED talk from the LEAD TED talk library
- Attend a panel, lecture, or guest speaker event
- Attend an intersectional issues event
- Attend a fair
- Attend a heritage, history, or awareness week/month event
- Attend a creative expression event
- Vote in a local, state, federal, or student election
- Volunteer for an hour
- Join the Honor Committee with the Office of Academic Integrity
- Participate in an alternative spring break
- Participate in the Denim Day campaign
- Join Student Government
*Patriot Experience tracks are housed within Mason360. To see which items you have completed and to learn more, log into Mason36o and see your progress under “My Checklists” and follow the Patriot Experience on Instagram @PatriotExperience
Are you a Transfer Student?
Connect with the Patriot Experience Transfer Track!
