SAA

I've learned today that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes no matter what your plans are they just seem to go wrong and something better happens. Today I gave my speech for SAA president, thought it was a cinch and ended up losing. I had a vision for SAA, for SAA to fill a long needed role at the University but it looks like that will not come to reality.

I could have brought so much to SAA, we even had an amazing executive board ready to roll into office and hold no prisoners. We were going to change the whole executive board structure, and change the committee structure among others. We were going to delegate different roles to certain individuals along with create certain initiatives which benefit the University as a whole. We were talking big things. things that haven't been done before and won't be done for a while.  

My speech wasn't great, I didn't prepare a whole lot because I underestimated the opponent. I had basically all the votes of the dedicated SAAs, it was just the new ones and the ones that she knew that voted for her. It was basically a popularity contest, which I rarely win.

All being said, I understand that things will work out for the best. No matter how much work I would have put into SAA it couldn't be anywhere near the level of SIFE, we are on our own playing field, there is no competition. Now I'll have time to focus on getting The Nugget off the ground, SIFE VP of Marketing, CGI and a few other various things which are almost certain to pop up. I might even have time to do competition team next year again.

Last year around this time I had high hopes of winning the Odyssian study abroad scholarship and going to London for a semester. I ended up withdrawing myself from that because of several reasons but SAA being a big part of it. This past year has honestly been better than I could have ever imagined and I don't believe it would have been as amazing if I had gone to London.

Everything happens for a reason. Big things are coming!!!