Pioneers

September 4, 2013

Today was our one year anniversary, and it was a day filled with emotions. We had a visitor come talk to us, he was one of the first students which started the university. He told us about how he came to join Marroquín, how their classes used to be, how they confronted a lot of doubt and how people didn’t really believe in their project at the beginning. I couldn’t help noticing that the starting of Marroquín was kind of like the starting of the MPC. They were both projects which started out with only a few people joining, and a lot of hard work. Most of the people were going against the current of education, they were supporting the study of liberalism while society studied something else, and we are trying to change the education system. Those students who started Marroquín were viewed as a little crazy, just as sometimes we are. But it is nice to realize that the whole university started in a similar way as we did.

Later in the day we did a rally for the new comers, instead of giving them a regular tour of the campus, we made them compete and run around looking for clues. We had put a great deal of effort into trying to make the rally perfect, and I think we managed to pull it off quite nicely. I think that the new students learned about the university and the campus, and I think they had fun while doing it. Well, actually I think we learned and had a lot of fun too. One of the best parts of the rally was dressing up as different important characters for the university, and while doing this I think we learned more about these characters and how they contributed to the university. I also enjoyed the planning of the rally, because it is another proof of how we have improved. We didn’t have a lot of setbacks planning it compared to other times we have planned things. One of my classmates said that the reason for this was that we were actually focusing on specific people and on making their experience great. So yeah, maybe this helped by giving us something to focus on, but I still believe that we did it all nicely because we have improved as a group and understand each other better.

I have been amazed lately at the energy that the new students have brought to the MPC. They have come eager to learn and to try new things.  I know that we are going to learn so much from them. I wonder what it would have been like if there would’ve been a class above us, maybe we would’ve tried new things. But thinking about it, I don’t think I would change my experience; I like being a pioneer. I was thinking about this when after the rally, we passed one of the videos shot at the beginning of the year about the MPC. We have come such a long way since the video. I really am grateful that I joined the program and that I am getting to pioneer something extraordinary. I believe that we are going to open so many new doors for the future of the university and the future of education. We are going to revolutionize the way people the university and the system. It’s like if we are the Lewis and Clark of education; exploring different grounds, with the help of a few who do know them.