{"id":13982,"date":"2015-02-05T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2015-02-10T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:01:47","slug":"cant-get-no-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2015\/02\/05\/cant-get-no-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Get No Respect…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I took someone\u2019s cell phone during an Ethics session was when we had a guest speaker.\u00a0 Surely, I reasoned with myself, the juniors would know better than to text when we had a guest speaker.\u00a0 I mean, that was just rude<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n

My phone-taking habit continued from there.\u00a0 It was almost like a game: \u00a0see how many screens you can spot once Dr. Eysturlid gets five minutes into his lecture!\u00a0 The problem was that no matter how many people I warned to \u201cput it away, or I\u2019m going to take it,\u201d or how upset the few people whose phones I actually took looked, juniors continued to text.\u00a0 Some of them even texted in the much smaller and more personal breakout sessions, which my co-facilitator and I had put a lot of effort into.\u00a0 Anyone who\u2019s had Ethics knows that not all sessions are good and not all of Dr. Eysturlid\u2019s jokes are funny, but that doesn\u2019t mean that students should completely write off Ethics.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing: this isn\u2019t just about Ethics.\u00a0 As an Ethics facilitator, this is the example of apathy on the IMSA campus that most affects me, but the key point is that apathy is rampant here. \u00a0Now, I\u2019m not saying that nobody here cares about anything because that\u2019s obviously not true.\u00a0 We have a lot of really passionate student leaders who care about what they\u2019re doing with different clubs and organizations.\u00a0 The problem is that, even though I think everybody on this campus is passionate about something, whether it\u2019s LoL or SocEnt, students here do not appear to have enough respect for each other to try and understand the passions of others.\u00a0 I know for a fact that one of the students I had for Ethics who was most vocally against Ethics and everything it stood for is a passionate leader of at least two clubs on campus.\u00a0 Another student who used her phone repeatedly during a recent breakout session heads another club.\u00a0 Even though these students must have understood many of the different trials associated with student leadership and getting other people excited about something they feel passionately about, they couldn\u2019t extend this knowledge to the Ethics session that I was excited about.\u00a0 There\u2019s a missed connection somewhere here where people don\u2019t realize that they are to others what others are to them.\u00a0 The president of Club Y is still just a person who comes to or blows off a meeting of Club Z.<\/p>\n

I know that this isn\u2019t an issue that\u2019s just going to change overnight.\u00a0 Believe me, I know that you have homework.\u00a0 I know that the main building seems ridiculously far away and that cultural club\u2019s event seems ridiculously unimportant when you are cozily chatting with your friends in the halls.\u00a0 I know because I\u2019ve skipped club meetings and missed events that I was interested in because maybe I just wasn\u2019t\u2026 interested enough.\u00a0 But what I\u2019ve begun to realize during my senior year is that by doing so, I was not only hurting my peers who spent so much time planning these events but also myself by not giving myself the full opportunity to learn from the people around me.\u00a0 Even the things that are mandatory that you really have no interest in \u2013 someone cares about those things.\u00a0 For example, LEAD facilitators spend hours and hours a week working on what they\u2019re going to do in their sessions.\u00a0 One facilitator I talked to said she spends about 3-5 hours a week on LEAD directly and more than that on LEAD-related projects.\u00a0 This is a huge time commitment and obviously represents how much this facilitator cares about what she is doing, but she has still received mixed responses from students.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that this is the IMSA we want.\u00a0 We came here because we are passionate, because we wanted to escape something or come to a place where we would be accepted for the nerds we are.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why I want to address every IMSA student, not just the student leaders, when I say: listen up!\u00a0 Not just to me, or whoever your Ethics facilitator is, but to everybody.\u00a0 When somebody gets that look in their eye \u2013 the one that you know means a full-on monologue is coming \u2013 don\u2019t avoid it or check out; listen.\u00a0 When your roommate wants to go to a Med Society event or check out what Spark\u2019s doing on a Thursday night, tell them to go and maybe even tag along.\u00a0 I will continue to take cell phones during Ethics, and I will continue to plan my breakout sessions in extended detail because I believe this: that if you learn to listen to people who are passionate about what they are doing, you\u2019ll start to care, at least a little.\u00a0 In doing so, you\u2019ll bring back the passion in yourself \u2013 the passion that put you on this crazy IMSA path.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a part of what we need to be the IMSA we want to be, but it\u2019s a necessary part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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