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    26th September 2007, 6:00 PM
    I've recently started my bachelor's degree in political science at the Université de Montréal with the goal of eventually doing a master's and entering the Canadian foreign service. With that objective in mind, and because it sounds like so much fun and I've always wanted to do it, I've applied to join the university's delegation to the 2008 NMUN (see title) in New York. For those who don't know what that is, you basically join a team (delegation) who is assigned a country to represent at the United Nations and set up camp at the New York Sheraton, along with delegations from all over the world. Then your team is split into committees who have to prepare position papers on different topics, according to your country's real-world viewpoint, then debate and come to a compromise with the representatives from all the other countries. Plus you get to do all this neat stuff, like meet the ambassador from the country you're representing, and use the actual UN general assembly for a couple hours.

    So I successfully passed the written exam, which consisted of two essay questions - "discuss the effect that placing American missile interceptors in Eastern European countries would have on the situation between the US and Russia" and one from a list of questions, I chose "are emerging Eastern countries threatening Western economies?" - and now I have an interview to do tomorrow morning. The selection process is pretty heavy, but I guess it must work 'cause my university placed first two years ago (representing the United States) and in the top five last year (representing Germany).

    So basically, wish me luck - also, has anyone ever participated in a NMUN or something similar? Some pointers would be cool.
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    National Model United Nations - by N-Man - 26th September 2007, 6:00 PM
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    National Model United Nations - by alien space marine - 26th September 2007, 11:22 PM
    National Model United Nations - by N-Man - 27th September 2007, 7:31 AM
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    National Model United Nations - by alien space marine - 27th September 2007, 4:49 PM
    National Model United Nations - by A Black Falcon - 27th September 2007, 5:02 PM
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