{"id":697,"date":"2012-05-16T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-05-16T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:24:30","slug":"student-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2012\/05\/student-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of months back I decided that I wanted to run for the University of Iowa’s Student Government!<\/p>\n

Lucky for me I had some friends who were willing to help me out and help me get started. Once I joined a party, the “I Party” and campaign dates began, I was in a whole new world. I met some new people along the way and said, “vote I party” more times than I think I have ever said my name in the past couple of years! Haha, I had a great time and went to a lot of really cool events. It was a good experience for me to publicly state what platform I agreed with the most and explain to people why that is. It was a great opportunity for me to learn how to better communicate just why I believed or thought a certain way. During this time frame, I spoke with a lot of my friends on what is important to them, and to say the least I received a lot of very interesting responses. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In the end I was elected as a senator for the 2012-2013 term \u00a0for UISG.<\/p>\n

Even more recently, I was elected as Diversity Committee Chair. So basically, I now have a title that goes with what I like to do in my free time anyway.<\/p>\n

I am excited for this upcoming year and I look forward to working with everyone on my committee and contributing to an even better University of Iowa \u00a0community and experience.<\/p>\n