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HOW TO PICK UP SOMEONE AT MUN – PART 1

Here are a few tips for you,

MUN can be an ideal place to ‘pick up’ a significant other. If you’re lonely the way I am, then you really realise the importance of a smooch partner especially with the recent V-day talk. So all of you happy couples, count your blessings boys and girls and try to make the best out of it – a happy relationship is the dopest.

To find your significant other could be fun in MUN. If you manage to end up dating (which you will if you’re reading this brilliant piece of writing written by a brilliant person) then it could be fun to talk about how you met when you guys eventually break up.

Love is everywhere. Let’s get the dress codes out ladies and gents. We have some people to flirt their brains out with.

Boys, DO NOT and I mean DO NOT (I can not emphasise this hard enough) act like you’re James Bond just because it’s the first time you’re in clothing other than sweats and an old t-shirt, which you have been wearing since you were 12. MUN is an opportunity for you to get out there to make friends. You’re wearing a rental suit for 5 days baby boy, bring it down a notch kiddo. You’re going to be faced by boys too cool for the conference. These boys will complain about the conference FOREVER. They’re “only here for the certificate” or some other reason for them being where they are. You’ll obviously meet the classics too, the ones all noodle and Rick looking from Rick and Morty. Maybe you can catch a few juulers too. New conference, new pods. Merry christmas to all.

Girls

Some come in glasses, skirts to the knee and a pencil stuck in their hair from the resolution reading from the night before. If you see this type of girlie around in MUN, I bet you all my MUN stickers that she is from Robert’s College. She is dangerous, she is a brainiac, she knows everything about everything. She’ll whip out her laptop, with 20 other MUN stickers proudly coating the surface, and debate as if this is her last MUN.

This article was excerpted from our student newspaper, Juice. It’s in two parts, this is part one and part two will be released saturday morning.

GUEST SPEAKER SUMMARY

Today, at our opening ceremony, we had the pleasure of receiving Sabine Freizer, UN Women Policy advisor who spoke to us about youth activism and her role in women’s rights.

Much like many of us, Ms. Freizer wanted to work in the UN, although the issues plaguing the world at the time were different. In the tension of the Cold War, Ms. Freizer wished to use her mastery of multiple languages and her passion for youth activism to do her part in helping to make the world a better place. She emphasized the importance our voice in today’s social and political climate, citing several youth activism groups. Currently, Ms. Freizer works for UN Women, a UN agency working to help end violence against women, empower women economically, politically and socially. When asked about her opinion on the current state of the United Nations, she spoke of the improvements she has seen throughout the period of her career especially on the gender equality side of things and shared her hopes for an even better future.

During her career, Sabine Freizer has worked in multiple international NGOs but started out with humble beginnings as a volunteer with refugees in Hungary. In closing, Ms. Freizer encouraged us to “Choose the studies we loved”, follow our passions and make our voice heard as this generation’s youth.