MUN 2019
Model United Nations is a way to get students involved and passionate about debate. There are many different topics to debate and you get to take the stance of your assigned country or character, which builds the skill of being able to argue for something you may not personally believe in. MUN had taught me how to write good factual papers in small amounts of time with accurate information, and formulate resolutions. My past experiences with MUN have been less than mediocre, I always dreaded it and never got into a good committee. I had a run of getting a country with little to no bias or information at all so formulating an argument was really difficult. It wasn’t until this year where I actually had fun debating and didn’t dread it. We had really good chairs and great delegates who put up a strong argument and interesting debate. I was able to finally participate confidently and had a lot of fun collaborating with other delegates. I’m almost sad that this is my last year doing it but I think I’ll consider joining the elective because I think chairing could be fun.
Model United Nations is a way to get students involved and passionate about debate. There are many different topics to debate and you get to take the stance of your assigned country or character, which builds the skill of being able to argue for something you may not personally believe in. MUN had taught me how to write good factual papers in small amounts of time with accurate information, and formulate resolutions. My past experiences with MUN have been less than mediocre, I always dreaded it and never got into a good committee. I had a run of getting a country with little to no bias or information at all so formulating an argument was really difficult. It wasn’t until this year where I actually had fun debating and didn’t dread it. We had really good chairs and great delegates who put up a strong argument and interesting debate. I was able to finally participate confidently and had a lot of fun collaborating with other delegates. I’m almost sad that this is my last year doing it but I think I’ll consider joining the elective because I think chairing could be fun.