Me at the Fairchild Debate
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/01/2622870/teens-debate-clean-water-bill.html, photo #5
The Miami Herald very kindly featured photos of several of us debating the environment the weekend of the 28th. It was an energizing weekend, and I had a pleasure being in an open-ended, social event. I met my new friends Alex, Hunter, and Jasmine, and acquainted better with my debate team.
I am also in my school's Mu Alpha Theta. Maybe that sentence can imply why I like a debate competition much better than a Math competition.
In a debate, you present ideas. You're getting evaluated, but still the open endedness leaves you at ease. Some new ideas in an impromptu speech can get you points. It is a different experience... Yet Fairchild is a more environment sort of thing than a heavy debate. But it's still practice for me, as I hope to attend Student Congress sessions next year. (the big FIMUN and DIMUN events conflict with things such as the Cadillac Championship and others).
In a Math competition, you take a test, individually and as a team of four. The social experience there is much less as traditionally you are clad to your group. I know most of my members so it is not like I am getting to meet anyone new, so it is not a fresh experience.
...and that is why, with all my might, I will seek an "office" in the debate team next year.
The Miami Herald very kindly featured photos of several of us debating the environment the weekend of the 28th. It was an energizing weekend, and I had a pleasure being in an open-ended, social event. I met my new friends Alex, Hunter, and Jasmine, and acquainted better with my debate team.
I am also in my school's Mu Alpha Theta. Maybe that sentence can imply why I like a debate competition much better than a Math competition.
In a debate, you present ideas. You're getting evaluated, but still the open endedness leaves you at ease. Some new ideas in an impromptu speech can get you points. It is a different experience... Yet Fairchild is a more environment sort of thing than a heavy debate. But it's still practice for me, as I hope to attend Student Congress sessions next year. (the big FIMUN and DIMUN events conflict with things such as the Cadillac Championship and others).
In a Math competition, you take a test, individually and as a team of four. The social experience there is much less as traditionally you are clad to your group. I know most of my members so it is not like I am getting to meet anyone new, so it is not a fresh experience.
...and that is why, with all my might, I will seek an "office" in the debate team next year.
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