Day One

What do you get when you mix college students from hundreds of colleges from all over the country as well as the world... add some great topics and lots of research... then sprinkle in ten awesome Columbia College women? An amazing Model UN conference of course! Our conference is now in full swing and we're doing amazing. I know we're all so tired from the travel and being in session until 10pm tonight but we are already doing an amazing job.

While much of the first bit of session is always about general "housekeeping" items... such as limits on debate and points of inquiry... but then we dive right into our topics. Each committee starts with their first topic but it often quickly gets changed to the second topic, and sometimes changed back several times!

Some of our committees have the goal of writing reports rather than simply writing resolutions. This adds to the pressure being felt because everyone has to agree with the report, so it's hard to get every one's opinions heard.

The conference rooms get hot, and loud, and crazy... while the president and vice president do their best to maintain order. I can say that in the IAEA, my committee, we're doing our best to make this very hard for them! Despite the craziness we look forward to working together with other Member States to accomplish some great things. We'll keep you updated!