Last Week as an Intern

        I find myself lost in a mix of speakers and dinners, left to write a final paper of the overall experience as the Convocation Intern. But how can I talk about an experience that has been so diverse and life changing. I've met so many people and learned so many lessons. I have been looking back at the calendar on my schools website and these blog posts as well as the journal I've been ordered to keep by the internship program. Broad and Crazy are the only two worlds that I can muster to describe this experience. Every week was filled with preparing for a special guest to come, not to mention, my other school work stacking on top of each other, hence the word CRAZY. I found myself running around and making sure students, whom I've decided are not reliable what so ever, show up to the convocation dinners. In terms of BROAD. Ive learned to contact future speakers and weasel my way around paying them a lot, I've been a security officer and the "mean lady at the convos." I, am the mean lady? Because I can't let you leave and ignore the fact that honor code says if you come, you must stay to receive credit. Forunetly, college students are not very smart which is almost ironic and they are not sneaky either. Back to broad, my experiences have lead me to learn a lot of very different things as mentioned previously. Thankfully and sadly, my work here is done and I will not be able to torment the student body until spring roles around again. Meeting people will be put on hold and I will be able to take a breath for only a moment because just as fast as this semester pasted by, the break will too and before I know it ill be back into the whirlwind of my senior year of college.

Student Speeches

          My very last convocation for the semester was the Big Questions convocation set up by the communication studies department. There were 5 students chosen to present the top 4 speeches about “What is Fair.” The first speech was a group of 2 guys who talked about basically the definition of fairness. This was a good speech to start the convocation with but it was not what I thought should be the winner. They were entertaining, had matched clothing, and spoke clearly, intrigued the audience but how did they relate to the rest of the world? This was my question.
         The other speeches were about fairness but in a different way then the first speech. They talked about other countries and fairness and basically focused on what is fair to us but not to them. I think out of all the speeches, the best speech was about the A-bomb dropped in japan during WW2. The speaker gave a clear representation of what we thought was fair as to why the bomb was dropped and what they thought about the fairness of the act, mostly why it wasn’t. I had to leave before it ended so I could drop off the scanner for Dr. Pierson but it was definitely a convocation that I think they should continue.
        Each student who spoke really put their heart and soul into their version of "What is Fair" and got the audience into thinking about what really is fair? After taking in the idea of fairness I wonder myself, do we really have fairness? This is a serious question that is considered during every action we take everyday. Overall asking yourself what is fair and acting fair are very different things because after listening to these speeches, its clear that not everyone have one linear view of fairness.