Senior Class President Research Paper

During high school, you either become a member of a club or an athlete. In my case, I decided to be part of Student Council so I could be more involved in school activities. All of the student council members were required to run for a leadership position, from president to class representative. When senior year came, I knew I wanted to run for a competitive and very important position. And that’s exactly what happened, I decided to run for senior class president, but I never expected such an outcome. The day came when we had to announce the position we were running for. I went up to the teacher's desk, and wrote my name under the senior class president list. When I found out my opponents, I started to wonder if I was really up to the challenge.

I wouldn't have been so nervous if I hadn't had such strong and well known opponents. I introduced myself and began to mention the reasons why my classmates should vote for me, “ Hello, many of you know me, but if you don't my name is Elendia Guerrero, and I want to be your senior class president.” Everyone was paying so much attention it felt like they were watching me perform. I mentioned some of the reasons why they should vote for me, “for me your opinions will always matter. I will always ask you guys for your opinion on any activity, and on designs for our senior shirt…” I talked for two minutes because that was the maximum time we were allowed for some reason. At the end of my presentation, I gave out candy to everyone. After this, the three of us had to repeat our speech to five more classes. By the time it was lunch, I was tired of repeating my speech I already knew it by memory and did not need my

I was finally done speaking in front of so many very attentive people. But the time of truth was still waiting ahead. For a while, I felt like I had a really high chance of winning because so many people told me they voted for me. I had to wait four hours to find out the results, those four hours were stressful so many things were going through my mind. One minute I was sure I was going to win, but the next minute I felt like I only got five votes. To get my mind off the whole running for president thing, I went to lunch with my friend. “Do you think you won?” my friend asked, and I responded, “honestly I do not know. I want to believe I did, but I don't