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Caravano: I only ran for student body president, right?

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Quick: Twice. [laughter]

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Caravano: I think that's the only electable position that I held, right? Yeah, never senate-

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Quick: The judicial board's not elected.

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Caravano: In high school, I was really, really spoiled in high school.

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I was president of my class freshman year through senior year and I just thought that was one of the funnest things ever;

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a little bit of responsibility, more each year.

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Being responsible for outcomes that your peers are going to enjoy, or you hope they're going to enjoy I really liked,

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so I have this note, this like journal entry from-. Gosh, I was seventeen. I was a senior in high school.

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t says: "I'd like to be the student body president at North Carolina State University."

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I get to NC State and I said I don't want to be the student body president at North Carolina State University;

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I actually want to be-. I want to play a smaller role in the larger organization of student government,

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so I wanted to impact an individual's life rather than doing this big thing.

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Like I thought I'd had my fair share of the bigger leadership from high school and I had no idea what I was talking about.

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Slowly I realized, you know, I think by the middle of my sophomore year I realized that that was probably limiting.

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There were so many things that I was interested in impacting campus wise

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that seeing the opportunity to run for student body president kind of leapt out at me,

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and it was back to that original note from the seventeen-year-old, not the freshman who said, nah, I definitely don't want to do that.

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So that's sort of the evolution for me but a lot of it had to do with Wolf Aides and then, like I said,

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those other leaders that when you're a freshman and you're looking up to these guys and these ladies you're really impressed by them and you want to be that.

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You may not want to hold the position but you want to be like they are, and they were just great role models.