A few weeks ago, I attended the SESS’s Annual General Meeting and was shocked by the agenda. I didn 't realize how much was happening in the SESS that I didn 't know about. As a first year, I don’t know a lot about the inner workings of the college, but the AGM revealed just how out of the loop I’ve been. I have since read through much of the Constitution of the SESS and some of the Policy Manual as both someone who wishes to become more involved and as simply a citizen of the society. The AGM opened my eyes to just how intrinsic the SESS is to the college and I see the CFES as playing a similar role in the engineering community, just with the much larger domain.
I’m very interested in how the engineering community in Canada functions because I think it’s important to evaluate ourselves against other similar groups, both positively and negatively, in order to grow as a community. At the time of the congress, I will have attended CFES’s Conference on Diversity in Engineering, which I’m ecstatic to attend for that very reason: to learn about how the engineering colleges and communities of …show more content…
There’s a joke among tech crew that the audience only notices your existence when you mess up, when someone 's microphone is left on or a cast member runs into a misplaced chair. For the tech crew to have a perfect performance, we should be invisible with no errors and also no acknowledgement. Organizations like the SESS run similarly. I don 't think that student government should be invisible, but I have an ample comprehension of the invisible work that the SESS does. From technical director to planning meetings, galas, and tournaments, I have done my fair share of and have developed a passion for invisible work. Doing behind the scenes planning, meetings, and hard work is sincerely my natural state, which is why I’m eagerly awaiting the opportunity to join the