SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA After a hectic weekend of workshops, heart break, campaigning, speech writing, networking, no sleep, endless nerves barely eating, chain smoking, region meetings, voting, more campaigning, and intense debating, I finally achieved what I have been working on since November of 2007.
I was elected an At-Large Senator for the Student Senate for California Community Colleges at this weekend's conference. I probably gave the most powerful speech out of all thirty-one candidates, and got the third highest amount of votes. My friends were awesome when it came to campaigning for me. I barely went around and talked to people, because I was too self-absorbed with my own drama. Nonetheless, I applaud myself for achieving my year-long goal.
Now I'm on to govern over 2.8 million students state-wide.
Oh politics. <3
After serving one full term as Student Government President, I figured it would only be fair for my senators (who did an excellent job this year) if I took my name off the ballots for the more pertinent awards. In the end, however, I still managed to be voted for one award in particular that struck me as odd:
