So, yesterday was the CompSoc EGM. It got quite an impressive turnout of 18 people which is quite an improvement on the AGM which all of 2-3 people bothered to turn up for. The (now) interim committee has made way for Sam as president, Norm as secretary, Martin as treasurer and Kieran as vice president.
So yeah, I lost out on president. Generally due to lack of support, the (to be as of two weeks) level 3 students consisted of myself, Kieran and Maths Chris. Though obviously not being in the room when the votes were cast I don’t actually know what went on. Maybe nobody at all voted for me.
It’s funny, when I was first offered the job as president, I look it relucantly as I had other commitments and was never really a big fan of CompSoc. But once I got into it I threw myself into the role and found myself with a new vibrant attitude towards the society. For the first time I really wanted to be involved in CompSoc, to give it a good future.
I thought I did to be honest. In the month or so we had the interim commitee we got events planned, we got issues sorted, we actually had a committee that wanted to run CompSoc. We had people excited about taking committee jobs. That’s the first time I’d ever seen that happen – the first AGM I witnessed saw people taking positions just because nobody else would do it. Ash wanted to be president everyone else just said “yeah, ok I’ll do it.” The second AGM, well, nobody turned up to it. Then, over summer, we actually had people wanting the jobs for the first time.
Today’s EGM was another apathetic wash-out. Kieran was unchallenged for vice president, nobody at all actually wanted to run for secretary or treasurer really, it was another case of “yeah, I might as well fill a committee place to make up numbers.” Sadly, it’s the same old story for CompSoc.
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