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When I was in high school I was our class president

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and I knew that that kind of thing interested me.

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I like to advocate and communicate the things that I'm passionate about,

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which may just be a fancy way to say I like to talk a lot.

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But when I first came to NC State I met a guy who was involved with student government

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and I knew that I wanted to be a part of that organization. I went to see a student senate meeting and they were an engaged body,

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they stayed up late, and they worked hard for something they believed in, which was that NC State could be the best

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student experience campus in the country.

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That was kind of their mantra when I first started, so I wanted to be a part of that.

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Certainly in hindsight my ego probably was at play there.

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I wanted to be seen on campus, 'cause thirty-four thousand students, you know, I wanted to do something that later I could say

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well I did network a lot with my peers in a big way and that would help me with future jobs.

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But later it became more and more about I just love this university

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and I was not happy with some things, like transportation or the way x-y-z was working-

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you know, the cafeteria, like I mentioned before-and student government provided an opportunity to effect some change,

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if the student body supported it. I mean nobody in that organization has any type of power,

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I guess you could say, but we had influence if the student body was behind us, and I really bought into that and believed it,

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specially by the time I was a junior/senior, which is why I ran for student body president.

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I wanted to believe that we could really change minds of the administrators through being a unified thirty-four-thousand-student body.