Let me start by going back three years ago, before I left to Chile, ending my senior year of High school.
While I was ending my senior year at Murray high school, I was just done with school. My wonderful Mother just kept telling me that I needed to get some scholarships for College before I left to Chile, so that I could have something waiting for me two years later when I returned to come home to go to school. I honestly was just not that excited on doing that, because I was just done with school. I had "Senioritis" to the max. So I finally just tried to get a couple just to make my Mother happy. I applied for some stuff at Utah State University and I ended up receiving $1,000 Scholarship. Then I found a scholarship at Salt Lake Community College that was called "The Presidential Scholarship" I had no idea what it was about, but it was full ride for two years, and I fit the requirements!! So of course I applied for it. A week or so later I received a call, saying that I was picked to come in and interview for the scholarship! For the next week I had to create a presentation, I really didn't do to much, I had a slide show of 5 slides full of pictures. I don't remember what exactly I had on there for the topics, but they were things that I had accomplished, and when I had my interview, I just went in with confidence and talked. It wasn't something that I prepared for to much, but I ended up getting called saying that I received it, which was awesome!! So then I went and told them I was going on a mission for my church, and they let me hold it for two years.
I came home last year in April, and I started up at SLCC in June, coming to the office and starting to figure out what my scholarship entitled. Then I figured out after a month or so, that the office was that I got to be involved in Student Government at SLCC. Better yet? They paid my tuition for having a scholarship at SLCC, and I got to have fun, just like in High School! Boo yeah! Although the student government at SLCC, is a lot more fun than at MHS. It is also a lot more structured. For example, there were 8 boards. Presidents Board, Student Senate, Publicity and Advertising, Clubs and Organizations, Fine Arts and Lectures, North Region, Central Region, and South Region. I happened to be involved on the Central Region board. The three region boards all do the same thing, they are all activity boards in the region where they are at. So really, I feel it is the most like high school stud. gov. You just plan fun activities for the students to enjoy SLCC. I had a blast last year! I met great friends, like Summer and Matt. Not to mention all the other friends from the other boards. I had the opportunity to plan a cool Winter Event which is the Holiday Extravaganza! We had this event which was really cool, where we planned for 4 winter holidays, Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukkah, and Diwali. Then it was huge! Lots of fun, and I really enjoyed it. It was kind of stressful, I will tell you that, planning an event for like 400 people to come.
Before the school year started, we had Summer trainings, and that is where I started to meet everyone! Something that was really cool, was within this amount, I got to know some of the LDS students, and one of them was the correct SLCCSA (Salt Lake Community College Student Association) President. Carlos M. Within the first couple of weeks, he told me that he saw leadership in me, and that he thought that I should run for SLCCSA President. I was really surprised! I mean, he didn't even know me, but he didn't stop. All throughout the year, he told me that I should do it, and so when January came around, I did it. I applied and got into the elections. I decided I would run with someone who had knowledge about the Senate. Arturo S. Who had been in the Senate for three years, I thought that he would be great at being the Executive Vice President because then he could run that part, while I learned how to figure out how the Presidents Board worked out! Arturo eventually agreed to run with me, but apparently he wanted to run for President and didn't decide to tell me until about ten minutes before we decided our positions, he told me that he wanted to run for President and that I should run for Executive Vice President, and if I didn't do that, he would be running against me. So pretty much, he gave me an ultimatum. I ended up decided I would just run as the Executive Vice then, because I knew it would be better to run as a pair. Since we ran as a pair, 4 of the 6 other candidates ended up quitting, because they knew we were a strong pair. That was cool. Then the following Monday, I found out that I was the only one running for the Executive Vice President, and the other three candidates were all running for President. The biggest thing then, was that I needed to get 51% of the Student votes, so that I could get in. About a week and a half before the elections, Brandon and Syd wanted to set me up with a girl. So we went on a blind double date (That will be for another post though).
Elections came, and I had a few pointers from Carlos throughout the year, and one of the big ones was, you have to have a lot of people come and help you! So I had some family and then a couple of friends, and Arturo did the same! We had so many posters made, and also t-shirts, and then we went hard for the two days of elections! The day after the elections ended, we had a dance at the South City Campus, and then we found out the results! Drum Roll please... ARTURO and CONNOR!!! Arturo received 450 more or less, and I received 800 more or less. It was awesome!!
So we have been doing a lot of stuff in the past couple of months!! I can tell you that, I mean in the past year I had 400 office hours, and I have already had 140 in the past two months. More than a 4th of the past year!
If it wasn't so late, I would get more into the details, but I will get a lot more into things later on! We are just at an Executive Council retreat right now, and we need to wake up in the morning to go do some more stuff! So I will write more later.
Here are a few fun photos from the past year!
I came home last year in April, and I started up at SLCC in June, coming to the office and starting to figure out what my scholarship entitled. Then I figured out after a month or so, that the office was that I got to be involved in Student Government at SLCC. Better yet? They paid my tuition for having a scholarship at SLCC, and I got to have fun, just like in High School! Boo yeah! Although the student government at SLCC, is a lot more fun than at MHS. It is also a lot more structured. For example, there were 8 boards. Presidents Board, Student Senate, Publicity and Advertising, Clubs and Organizations, Fine Arts and Lectures, North Region, Central Region, and South Region. I happened to be involved on the Central Region board. The three region boards all do the same thing, they are all activity boards in the region where they are at. So really, I feel it is the most like high school stud. gov. You just plan fun activities for the students to enjoy SLCC. I had a blast last year! I met great friends, like Summer and Matt. Not to mention all the other friends from the other boards. I had the opportunity to plan a cool Winter Event which is the Holiday Extravaganza! We had this event which was really cool, where we planned for 4 winter holidays, Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukkah, and Diwali. Then it was huge! Lots of fun, and I really enjoyed it. It was kind of stressful, I will tell you that, planning an event for like 400 people to come.
Before the school year started, we had Summer trainings, and that is where I started to meet everyone! Something that was really cool, was within this amount, I got to know some of the LDS students, and one of them was the correct SLCCSA (Salt Lake Community College Student Association) President. Carlos M. Within the first couple of weeks, he told me that he saw leadership in me, and that he thought that I should run for SLCCSA President. I was really surprised! I mean, he didn't even know me, but he didn't stop. All throughout the year, he told me that I should do it, and so when January came around, I did it. I applied and got into the elections. I decided I would run with someone who had knowledge about the Senate. Arturo S. Who had been in the Senate for three years, I thought that he would be great at being the Executive Vice President because then he could run that part, while I learned how to figure out how the Presidents Board worked out! Arturo eventually agreed to run with me, but apparently he wanted to run for President and didn't decide to tell me until about ten minutes before we decided our positions, he told me that he wanted to run for President and that I should run for Executive Vice President, and if I didn't do that, he would be running against me. So pretty much, he gave me an ultimatum. I ended up decided I would just run as the Executive Vice then, because I knew it would be better to run as a pair. Since we ran as a pair, 4 of the 6 other candidates ended up quitting, because they knew we were a strong pair. That was cool. Then the following Monday, I found out that I was the only one running for the Executive Vice President, and the other three candidates were all running for President. The biggest thing then, was that I needed to get 51% of the Student votes, so that I could get in. About a week and a half before the elections, Brandon and Syd wanted to set me up with a girl. So we went on a blind double date (That will be for another post though).
Elections came, and I had a few pointers from Carlos throughout the year, and one of the big ones was, you have to have a lot of people come and help you! So I had some family and then a couple of friends, and Arturo did the same! We had so many posters made, and also t-shirts, and then we went hard for the two days of elections! The day after the elections ended, we had a dance at the South City Campus, and then we found out the results! Drum Roll please... ARTURO and CONNOR!!! Arturo received 450 more or less, and I received 800 more or less. It was awesome!!
So we have been doing a lot of stuff in the past couple of months!! I can tell you that, I mean in the past year I had 400 office hours, and I have already had 140 in the past two months. More than a 4th of the past year!
If it wasn't so late, I would get more into the details, but I will get a lot more into things later on! We are just at an Executive Council retreat right now, and we need to wake up in the morning to go do some more stuff! So I will write more later.
Here are a few fun photos from the past year!
So during the Summer, I had to go to the basement and understand the basement where we would be using lots of stuff to use during the year!
Here we had an event at the Jordan campus to welcome Students back with a crazy country rock band. They were kinda crazy.
Carlos M. The SLCCSA President. This was another welcome back event, but at the Taylorsville campus, with the same band!
We had a cool event called the Fall Concert. Joe Nickles was the main band, but Ellie Duke was the opening act. She sang really good! If you want to hear them, both of them are on Spotify! I was just lucky to get a selfie with her, then a friend had to one up me and go get her number... Ha! Of course.
On the Left: It was lots of fun on my birthday! We had a fun event, where in the Student Center all the offices had activities, and there in the SL&L office we had a ball pit that we had met! It was awesome! I was so happy! So I of course had to test it! ;)
On the Right: This was at the Holiday Extravaganza! I was with Summer, and Mr. & Mrs. Clause! The coolest part? It is the REAL Santa Clause. No joke.
This is what we wanted to use for our poster for elections, but they didn't accept it, because of copyright issues. Fun though, right??
This is what we actually ended up using! It obviously helped us to win!
For our elections, we had a theme of "Beard" We started off at the Inter Club Council by telling jokes about Arturo's beard, and that maybe we should shave it if he won, and so we used it all!
This was what we did the week before elections at the three main campuses, this being at the South City Campus.
Same thing, but we happened to be at the Taylorsville Campus!
This is the Executive Council for 2015-2016 These guys are awesome!
After Elections, we had the opportunity to go up to the capitol of Utah and listen to the President of SLCC talk about the SLCC Promise. A new thing that will be in action of Fall of 2016, to help people pay for school. If they are eligible for a Pel Grant, SLCC will pay for the rest of the school. Awesome!!
Honestly, exactly how this year will be going! This EC Rocks!
