Hello, MUNers!

 

I am Morris Huang, a student from Hsinchu International School, and I am excited to be your deputy president for the Historical Security Council. HIMUN VIII marks my sixth conference and first time chairing the Security Council. My experience with MUN is one of pretentiousness. Usually, people tell embarrassing stories about their first conferences to make them appear more relatable. That wasn’t the case for me. I decided the second I walked in I was going to pull off a show, that is because debate is much like performance—the argument is made to convince the audience, not the opposing delegate. Indeed, I was correct, and people came to me for questions, when it should really be the other way around. The key takeaway from this experience, I would say, is to fake it ‘till you make it. However, deceit is not the only element of MUN. It gives me an excuse to be more educated on issues worldwide and also trains me to formulate arguments for a stance whether I actually believe it or not (a skill that comes in handy when both sides of an argument must be taken into account). About me, I’m just a talentless scrawny teenager trying to improve his GPA before it’s too late. I used to catch up with a lot of anime and play a few games, but I sacrificed them for a better sleep schedule. Just kidding, my dark eye circles would beg to differ. So why am I any good? I’m not, other than the fact that I’ve done Security Council a lot of times already and that I’m dedicated to try my best at chairing. The topics for the Historical Security Council this year are quite fun to debate if you put in enough research and overcome your stage fright.

 

Let’s do that, I guess. See you in March!