Student Council Confessions

Despite the misleading and salacious title, I don't actually have any confessions of wrong-doing, shenanigans, or naughty behavior. But you're reading this, aren't you? Haha. Well, I do want to talk about my experiences in Student Council during High School. As with Speech and Debate, Student Council would turn out to be rather formative for me. Because whether I knew it or not, a lot of the activities Student Council was responsible for would promote positive skills I would find useful later in life.

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For starters, Student Council is all about finding ways to work constructively with others. As I'm sure is true of other schools' councils, mine was full of assertive, intelligent, and over-achieving types of people, and having your voice heard was sometimes a challenge. But that was kind of the point. If you wanted to contribute, you had to work to make your ideas heard, and defend your choices when you were discussing options. Themes for dances were decided in Student Council, as were the type and number of decorations, the song choices, everything was up for grabs, and fighting for your choices was par for the course!

Now I'm not going to lie and say that I ever dominated any activity. But I did have my voice heard, I did learn how to argue with others respectfully, and how to be assertive when it was appropriate. Being part of an organization with a high level of give-and-take really molded me to be a person that pursues what he wants and hold fast to my ideas. Now as I pursue marketing, it seems that the my experience expressing my ideas in the face of competition becomes so much more important. The next time I have to come up with a snappy t-shirt, or build the entertainment list for a marketing venture, I know I'll do very well. Thanks for reading!