Reflective Essay: Stillwater Makes A Change

Leadership isn’t something that has came to me naturally. It has been something that I have learned through trial and error. I really started to participate in leadership activities in my sophomore year. I joined Student Council and had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. Although joining it has been a lot of work, it has also been one of the most rewarding decisions I have ever made. It has given me a passion for leading and serving others throughout my school and my community. What if I hadn’t taken the time to make it to that first Student Council meeting? Where would I be today and what would I be doing? I doubt that I would have been involved in Stillwater Makes a Change or had opportunity to go on the Youth Leadership Oklahoma …show more content…
One example of this was Spring Districts Conference that our school was supposed to attend. It was a conference for fifteen school and has approximately 350 students and advisors attending. We held the Fall Districts Conference which we had months to prepare for and were excited to be attending another school for the spring conference. Two weeks before Spring District Conference, the advisor for the hosting school, told us that they couldn’t use their school to hold it, nor would she be able to help. The advisor had just learned that she had a form of aggressive cancer and would be receiving treatment on the day that they were supposed to have the Spring Districts Conference. With absolutely no hesitation we not only offered our school for the conference, but let them know that we would help in any way that they needed to pull this off. So, with less than two weeks, we jumped into a mass scramble to save the conference. It was more than just a hosting, it was crazy, exhausting and super stressful adventure. It was the day that we all looked past ourselves and did what was right, we helped a fellow school in their time of