2008 November 16 Archive at Kim, ‘12

Hello all! I am currently writing to you on my way home from Philadelphia.

I spent a four day weekend in Philadelphia with Richmond’s Model United Nations (MUN) group. Ten of us in the group attended the annual MUN conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania at the fancy Double Tree Hotel in the very heart of downtown Philadelphia. Although I participated in MUN in high school, this was my first actual college MUN conference, competing with top schools all across the nation. Because this was my first serious MUN conference, it was quite intimidating to debate real-life global issues with other dedicated and intelligent students. However, it was a great experience to interact with different people from different universities and I learned a lot that will help me be better prepared for my next MUN conference. The UPenn conference’s organizing committee also planned fun activities and events outside of conference time for all of the conference attendees. They gave us free time to explore the city, which my friends and I fully took advantage of. They also rented out a big private night club for all the college attendees to celebrate the end of the conference. Overall, it was a great extended weekend. I was able to travel to a city that I’ve never been to before, attend a stimulating conference and just have fun in a new setting! And the best thing is that this entire trip was paid for by the University of Richmond! The University funded MUN students to go on this trip because it was educational and sponsored by a University student organization. That’s one of the great things about the University of Richmond – it has amazing resources to spend on its students to help students explore their topics of interests outside of the classroom.

That’s all for now! I hope everyone had as exciting a weekend as I did. Now I’m starting a countdown until Thanksgiving break when I will get to travel to New Jersey and New York. Updates to come!