On thursday, I attended the general interest meeting for Baruch’s Model UN during club hours. I attended because I received an email reminder from the club after I signed their email list at the club fair during convocation day. It was my first club meeting at Baruch and I appreciated being in a room with like-minded people. The majority of the E-board were political science majors like me, which was a breath of fresh air at Baruch since most people are studying business. I’m excited for the conversations we will have pertaining to world issues. I attended the meeting with Ana and Maria from our freshman seminar group but I also reconnected with some other people I had met during orientation and convocation. The meeting was a really great way to pass the time during the 2 1/2 hour gap.

During the meeting, the E-board took the time to explain what the UN is, what Model UN is, and recount their specific experiences with Baruch MUN and the conferences they attended. We learned that model UN conferences consist of general assemblies and crisis conferences, in which school teams are assigned countries and they have to work with other countries to come up with solutions to problems that happen in the real world. Baruch MUN’s 3 main conferences are the McGil conference in Montreal, the national conference in Manhattan, and the NYU Crisis Conference.

I was really happy to find out that MUN experience is not a requirement for joining the conference team because my high school did not have a model un. After the meeting, I plan on filling out the application for the club and team. I’m happy I attended this meeting because I really learned a lot about something that interests me and it has given me an opportunity to become involved in extracurriculars at school!