Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Some things I noticed about the new batch of officers in the student organizations for the incoming school year: first, most of the sophomore batch of engineering students are there, possibly because they know they will all be there for the two-night leadership training seminar in the summer.

I would have been suspicious if I had not seen that they were already active in those organizations in their earlier years in the school. And it just means more coordination in terms of supporting each other’s events for next school year.

Second, besides the engineering majors, there was at least three other organizations whose entire line up of officers were all from the same peer group.

Maybe they will see now that there is something to be said about friends making good co-officers in an organization since they have already passed the part about accepting the others’ personalities, and know each other’s weaknesses.

I might just mention this in the student edition of the journal; there’s something they can learn from this.

Lastly, out of the out of the eight students who lost in the last elections, two were appointed, three became officers in student organizations, and three seem to have sworn off student leadership altogether after their experience.

What I’m a bit suspicious of is that they were active in these organizations already before they ran, and they would have had a surer chance of getting a position in that organization than in the riskier field of student council elections.

Were these student organization positions only their fallback in case they lost?

Or did their friends and fellow organization members vote them in out of pity?

It’s something that may be worth investigating without being overt about it.

And in any case, it’s still better to have some experience in any kind of student organization leading and setting up activities than wanting to run when they don’t have any experience whatsoever, just over-driving ambition.

Session 1571 wanted to be president without attending any student activity during the freshman year except for those that would boost his grades in his subjects. Class dismissed.