The End.

I woke up today, sad to have to come to university but knowing that this is one of my last 8:30 classes in AUC. The semester is ending in a couple of weeks, my 4 year journey is ending in a couple of weeks and to me now my life is literally ending.

When I come to think of the past four years and how they impacted my life, changed it, in other words reformulated it, I come to discover that university years are not the ending however they are the beginning.

Even though I sound quite optimistic about it right now, this is not what I really feel inside. I am actually freaking out from the fact of graduation, having to leave my university, the people I got used to knowing and seeing everyday is what freaks me out. The fact that I will have more responsibilities on top of my shoulders, more committment and more expectations from people freaks me out.

Graduation is a big deal, getting into "real" life is a big deal and that is assuming that what we are going through is not real. It is considered real to a certain extent yet post graduation to me at least in considered the reality real, as in there is no way back, as in you have to continue, not looking back untill you reach the end of this very long, hectic, tiring, disturbing race.

I DO NOT WANT TO GRADUATE!!!

What is the Importance of the Student Union?

When I first thought of writing this article, I decided to talk in it about all the accomplishments of the Student Union since I have ever heard about which was four years ago in my freshman year. Then it struck me that it is not its accomplishments that make it the most important and powerful organization on campus in fact its importance exists in the essence of how it works.

The Student Union started in around 1985, while before it was a student council. Both the Student Union and Student Council started for one reason which was to represent the students in front of the administration and try to provide them with some services they needed. Along the years this idea progressed, it developed and formed a Student Union which had a formal structure, an executive plan and sufficient HR to implement that plan.

Representing, Serving, Entertaining, Developing and connecting the Students is what the SU aims at doing right now. Representing the Students, in my point of view, is however the most important, it can make a Student Union or Break it. When students suffer a certain problem on campus whether with the different AUC services or with different administration offices there must be an entity responsible to help them find a solution for their problems and having a community of more than 5000 students makes it impossible to have them all solve their own problems. So here intervenes the SU, there is a whole committee inside the SU only responsible for representing the Students, advocating their rights and finding solutions to their daily academic and administrative problems. Which is the Reason the Student union exists from the first place.
Some people when they start observing the Student Union, they do not see except the concerts and the events. Even though this is not a negative but it is not the reason why the Student Union is here it is one of the aspects where the Student Union fulfills its role. The student union is not an agency that is present to organize parties, to form conferences and to publish newspapers only it is here to do all the previous but for a cause which is the Students.

According to the student constitution, the Student union is the highest executive body on campus and its mission is to represent, serve, connect and entertain and for all that to happen it needs perseverance, vision and belief.

This is what the Student Union is all about….

Student Union 2009-2010

Scuba Diving, family and The student Union are currently the 3 most important things in my life.
I am the Student Union Vice President for the year 2009-2010. This position makes me preoccupied nearly 24-7 with its issues, problems, opportunities, appointments and meetings.
The Student Union is present to serve, represent, develop and entertain the AUC student body. This is the SU's mission statement ever since it was there. However, this year we had a vision that is quite different than any previous ones.
In our vision we promised for a student union that embraces DIVERSITY, ensures EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION, provides OPTIMUM SERVICES and builds a FOUNDATION OF FUTURE LEADERS.

This vision was what kept me going through the roughest of times in the past 10 months. These 10 months were full of ups and many many downs. We fulfilled our vision to a certin extent in each of the fields mentioned however we as ateam have a feeling that we can always do better. There have been very rough times when we had crisis in certain projects and there was nothing to be done but that helped us become stronger and learn from our experience.

Being part of the student government was something I had thought about ever since I was a freshman and I was determined back then that one day I will be the Student Union President. But this dream was altered after I tried campaigning in the SU Presidential elections for a candidate I had really believed in yet I discovered that elections is a dirty game that is not worth it.

To cut a long story short, I am haunted these days by a feeling of sadness and worry. I do not want my term as the SU Vice President to end; not because I am enjoying the position but because I feel that if I do not promote change and start it now when I am in this position then I will never be able to change anything in this world.