<p>Any of you ever done Model UN? What are your thoughts, experiences, etc.?</p>
<p>My school doesn't have Model UN! It sounds pretty cool, and I wish that we had it.</p>
<p>I wish our school had a Model UN too...</p>
<p>MUN IS SO MUCH FUN! It's really the best extra-curricular, hands down, I don't care how "regular" it is. I've met the best people I've ever met in my life through it, a few of the college guys who run one of our conferences. I probably gained more analytical, debate, and speaking skills through it than anything else. Confidence especially.</p>
<p>So, what exactly do you guys do at Model UN meetings?</p>
<p>Talk about upcoming conferences, discuss fundraising ideas to raise money for the club, and other such thing. Conferences are more important than meetings.</p>
<p>Our school just goes to one conference. We don't really prepare for it that much. Basically, you represent a country and you are in one of the committees (general assembly, security council, etc.) You are usually given topics that you prepare for ahead of time and you debate that from the viewpoint of your country.</p>
<p>Our school goes to 3 overnight conferences (Brown, UMassAmherst and Yale) and two day conferences (BC High and Concord Academy). We usually win many awards at every conference and often win first place, but all our big award winners are graduating, i need to step it up now and finally get one now that I'm on Exec. Board.</p>
<p>See ours is not really a big deal. We don't even have a club or anything. We just meet a few times before we go to the conference. The really serious MUNers probably hate us because a lot of us don't take it seriously. We have fun though, and I learned a lot.</p>
<p>Yeah, ours isn't that serious either, we only go to the local conference but it is a lot of fun.</p>
<p>Taking Model UN as an elective was one of the best choices I made! Ours isn't really a club, it is integreated into the curriculum. We attend two overseas confrences, THIMUN ( The Hague Model United Nations) and SAMUN ( South American Model United Nations), and we have our local school confrence. It is a class where you simulate the United Nations, and write and debate resolutions to an issue present in the world today. Each group represents a country. The goal of the confrences is to reach a solution to a global issue that suits every countries' point of view, or as many as possible.</p>
<p>MUN is more fun when you don't come up with solutions. Because that means that people are actually in character; not Iran creating an alliance with Israel, or North Korea pushing for humanitarian aid. Of course, I say this as the former delegate from DPRK, Iran, Israel, and the Russian Federation. Consensus-building MUN is crud. That's why I love one conference we go to, which is all about real-life simulation. That shows how politics <em>really</em> works.</p>
<p>Much more valuable experience!</p>
<p>Model UNs are AMAZING. I started with the club at my school and MIMUN in eighth grade, and it was extremely fun. I joined it this year in high school and went to UMMUN and our school-wide conference (winning awards at both) and besides learning about all kinds of international issues I made new friends, learned how to negotiate, and a lot more.</p>
<p>By the way, I LOVE CRISES!!!!! Best part of MUN ever. The previous conference I mentioned (CIMUN, btw) is so crisis-based, and it rocks, so much. Especially because in the past two, my country has been at the absolute center. Iran's facilities were attacked by Israel, and rebutted with giving Hizbullah a nuclear bomb to hold over Tel Aviv. Next, Russia broke into its own gas pipelines, blamed Ukraine, and put Europe in a desperate humanitarian crisis. Although in the end, it was just all the Chechens fault, and we got a Frenchman to scream 'VIVE LA FRANCE!" as he jumped over the nuclear bomb, being the only casualty. </p>
<p>Also fun: being hated as Russia and then being like crazed fangirls at a Beatles concert, circa 1964, when "Putin" entered the General Assembly to speak. </p>
<p>Ah hah. I LOVE MUN!!!</p>
<p>I did it twice, fresh and sophmore year, and I actually was in the General Assembly room at the U.N. It was quite cool, but some of the people there are pretentious and downright annoying. I was a bit meek and didn't speak much, and felt unprepared because our school is underfunded and didn't have a lot of resources. It was a good experience though, and I highly recommend it, especially if you like public speaking/debating/global issues.</p>
<p>Was anyone at Chicago Model UN in December?</p>
<p>do people try and speak with accents (not being sarcastic)? I know it doesn't matter, but i have wondered about it. the school that i'm going to next year has it, and I plan on joining.</p>
<p>MUN IS AMAZING. period. I started it last year. I learned after a year's class of MUN. Then I went to my first 'mini' conference and..got screwed up and learned. You have to be willing to dominate and WANT it. =]</p>
<p>I was Kazakhstan so people made Borat jokes at me, but no, people don't really speak in accents (unless they really do have accents).</p>
<p>asdfjkl1 thats the lesson I learned from my first conference too.</p>