True Blue Memories

Tomorrow will be the 2 year anniversary of my USAC election (which also means that next week will be the 2 year annivesary of Alex & me- coincidence, I think not). Seeing the pictures of this year's candidates and talking to people still around at UCLA about how this year's campaign is going made me incredibly nostalgic. Even though I wasn't a candidate last year, I was still around and heavily involved.

As stressful and emotional as campaigns were, it was such a great and unique experience. 12 hour days on Bruinwalk, seeing a huge 4 foot picture of your head on a banner on Bruinwalk, late night strategy sessions, slap bracelets, 8 claps, walkie-talkie with code names for our opponents.

And then there was the Dream Team. I wish I could find the pictures we used for the campaign, but here's one of most of us (minus Alex, Jesse, and Michelle) on our weekly post-council boba runs. And we couldn't have done it without our amazing campaigners/staffs, particularly my superstar Chief of Staff Liz 'Leo' Vega.

I guess it really isn't the campaign I miss as much as the people. Sure we made some contributions to the school; were they worth the time we put it into them, who knows. But some of the best people I met at UCLA were from USAC. I'm sure the kids (I'm allowed to call them kids because they were freshmen when I was a senior) running this year will feel the same in a few years.