WorldMUN - what's that?
Some semesters back I used to be a diligent student. In some ways I still am, at least when it comes to attending the lectures and pretending to be a "good" student. ;-)
Actually I think it's not bad to be interested in other things besides your studies, well, as long as you pass all the exams. To be honest, being a law student is not the most exciting thing, at least when you're doing your Bachelor's degree. So I'm trying to balance the lack of excitement in my studies with AIESEC (LC Bern rocks!), studying Chinese (the coolest language ever!) at uni and other projects such as attending Harvard WorldMUN 2007 (veeery cool!). But, what the heck is that? Never heard of it?
Well, Harvard WorldMUN (World Model United Nations) is a week-long conference comprised of 1500 university students from over 35 countries. It's a simulation of United Nations committees as well as other international organizations. Assigned to a specific country, in my case Thailand, the delegates debate topics in the committee from their country’s perspective. The goal at the end of the week is to produce a UN-style resolution that addresses the issues discussed over the week. Before the conference starts every delegate has to prepare two set topics for his committee (in my case the WHO) and hand in position papers. Doing so you need to put yourself in the position of the country you're representing and try to play your "role" as truthfully as possible.
The 16th edition of this interesting conference is taking place in Geneva (organized by EPFL) towards the end of March. I'm going there together with a delegation from the University of Bern. For more info you can check the WorldMUN-website (link on the right side) or my blog after the conference.
Not that you're getting a bad impression of studying law. In your Master's you can for example specialize on international and european law which in my opinion is much more interesting than for example Swiss criminal law (it sounds more thrilling than it actually is). So I'm very much looking forward to the new era after my Bachelor's degree! Yay! :-)
Actually I think it's not bad to be interested in other things besides your studies, well, as long as you pass all the exams. To be honest, being a law student is not the most exciting thing, at least when you're doing your Bachelor's degree. So I'm trying to balance the lack of excitement in my studies with AIESEC (LC Bern rocks!), studying Chinese (the coolest language ever!) at uni and other projects such as attending Harvard WorldMUN 2007 (veeery cool!). But, what the heck is that? Never heard of it?
Well, Harvard WorldMUN (World Model United Nations) is a week-long conference comprised of 1500 university students from over 35 countries. It's a simulation of United Nations committees as well as other international organizations. Assigned to a specific country, in my case Thailand, the delegates debate topics in the committee from their country’s perspective. The goal at the end of the week is to produce a UN-style resolution that addresses the issues discussed over the week. Before the conference starts every delegate has to prepare two set topics for his committee (in my case the WHO) and hand in position papers. Doing so you need to put yourself in the position of the country you're representing and try to play your "role" as truthfully as possible.
The 16th edition of this interesting conference is taking place in Geneva (organized by EPFL) towards the end of March. I'm going there together with a delegation from the University of Bern. For more info you can check the WorldMUN-website (link on the right side) or my blog after the conference.
Not that you're getting a bad impression of studying law. In your Master's you can for example specialize on international and european law which in my opinion is much more interesting than for example Swiss criminal law (it sounds more thrilling than it actually is). So I'm very much looking forward to the new era after my Bachelor's degree! Yay! :-)
posted by Oliver at 10:39 PM
3 Comments:
Very cool stuff. I actually participated in one of these UN Simulations, just that it was on a smaller scale, within Switzerland, and for high school students. Yeahhhh I was representing the Yemen! Very realistically, as I am a women, and so was the rest of my delegation. :-)
Have fun with that!
cool....have fun!
that is really cool... i participated twice at students' united nations in geneva, which is a MUN for high school students... (@laura, maybe we were at the same one...?)
tell me how it was and i might join next time...;)
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