Blog category1

Pathway to the Gavel, Part Two

By: Vikram Abraham
University of California at Santa Barbara '13
 
Grow a pair.
Those three simple words will transform you into the biggest nation in the room, whether you be a male or female, the United States or Swaziland. It is a piece of advice that I, in my earlier years as a wee lad, heard often after making mistakes and never took seriously until attending Berkeley MUN.

Pathway to the Gavel

By: Vikram Abraham
University of California at Santa Barbara '13

Let me start off by stating that MUN is not simply an organization that simulates the United Nations in order to foster international resolutions to global crises. MUN is a blunt hammer. A hammer that can hurt you badly if you drop it on your foot, or hurt someone else if used improperly. However, MUN is also a tool that one may use to hack away at nails.