For those of you that believe I clap my hands slightly too much at the GBMs, let me assure you that I mean every one of them. Right now, I want give a round of applause to Maria, Florian, and the rest of the ILMUNC Secretariat for a fantastic job, because last week’s conference was seriously amazing! Every little detail was planned out for us, as a Senior for whom ILMUNC 2010 was his 8th home conference, I am extremely grateful to the Secretariat for making my last one so great!
“Jay, how can we tell that you are genuinely enthusiastic about the time you had,” you ask. Well, let me tell you that on Friday night of conference, amidst the games of Marco Polo and the chicken fights at the pool party, I realized that I still had my phone in my pocket at the pool. Despite attempts by Poorvi to revive my phone while blow drying it in the girls’ bathroom, my phone was gone. Yet I realized right then that it didn’t matter. All the people I love were under one roof at the Sheraton City Center for the next two days. And I think that’s what struck me the most during this wonderful conference- our club has such great carmarderie. I rarely freak out in your presence. So ILMUNC, let me reiterate- thank you for the xbox and the cookies, the pens and the USBs, the pool and the hotel room, and for the good times and memories.
I hope you are all pumped about the rest of what should be a fun-filled semester! Our speaker event went off really well on Thursday, with Dr. Tierney invoking a lot of thought in the audience that attended. You can find a DP article about it here: http://thedp.com/article/tierney-explains-why-america-has-no-stomach-fighting-afghanistan. Over the next months, we’re off to Harvard, paintballing, Berkeley, Princeton, UVA, Chicago, the Poconos, while experiencing Human Rights Week, Spring Fling brunch, the Speaker Series, and a Model UN Summit on campus. And more. We’re wrapping it all up with a kick-ass Formal at the end of the year.
Get pumped!
Love,
Jay Raghavan, your IAA President