going for school vice president cuz i've got nothing to lose
our school has been looking for school (vice) president candidates this week. yes just this week, 12/22~12/26. you have to register with three people (including you) as one team, one president (8th grade as of registration) and two vice presidents (7th and 8th grade each). at first, i had no interest in running because:
- i have no experience being even class president, the only thing that's closest was that one time i ran for class vice president and lost (i had 6 votes tho)
- i have zero ideas for election promises
- i don't know any 8th graders who are running, and if any 8th graders were looking for 7th graders, they would come into our class
buuut two days later, nobody asked me to be in the election, i started to think 'what if i ran for the election with some other cool 8th graders so i can learn how to run for a school election? if i fail it would be a good experience, if i succeed it would be a better experience i could write down in my school records. also it's not like i'm running for high school president or anywhere leaders actually matter, and it's not like this is the west so really really skilled people run for president, if i don't try rn i'm gonna regret it later like i regret not running for class president before' so i decided to talk to someone. except i didn't know who. so i didn't.
and then there was fifth period, i met my english teacher who was also in charge of the election. i told my english teacher i wanted to be in the election but didn't know how to get an 8th grader, he said just look and there would be someone. but i was too nervous, therefore i asked three people during break, they didn't know any 8th graders who were running for school president.
after school ended, i made a little piece of paper saying 'looking for older students who are running for school president' and showed it to random people, i went around all he 8th grade classes and guess what? nobody knew anyone who was looking for a 7th grader. yayyyy
some of my friends said that people who were really determined would have been prepared already, and that it's impossible now. my only 8th grader friend told me the election is based on popularity anyways. but do i lose anything if i don't find 8th graders? no. so i'mma keep asking on friday.
i think it's always good to try your best at something even at the last minute even if you think you're unqualified. after all that's what i did for the school's english newspaper club, i thought i was not qualified to write for a school newspaper, but turned out i was accepted in no time, some people couldn't speak english at all (with some using AI or translators for their entire article), and now i'm the 7th grade leader. though the difference is, i was fluent in english and had written in english before joining the newspaper writers, but i have never run for an election before (except for one time as class vice president) and will probably be disqualified from even being a candidate. but the difference between the kid who tries random things but never does them good and the multidisciplinary kid is probably that the multidisciplinary kid will learn from their experience and try again / use it for something else if they fail, even if they were rushed on their first try.
conclusion: i will probably not be able to run for school vice president, but i will try anyways, but if i can't do that i'll run for class president next year
update 2025-12-25: mason responded to this post
update 2025-12-26: i only found one 8th grader, who was asking everybody to run for vice president with her. nobody did