Overheard @Brown Model UN: the Second Annual Edition

The Brown University Simulation of the United Nations (BUSUN), a Model UN Conference for high schoolers hosted at Brown, took place this past weekend. Founded in 1996, BUSUN has become an annual Brown tradition and, after the surprising success of my Overheard @Brown Model UN article last year, I decided that looking through high schooler's trash for risqué UN notes would become an annual Blog tradition as well.For those of you who weren’t nerds in high school don’t know, MUN enforces a strict parliamentary procedure, which means no talking out loud. Instead, delegates from each country pass notes to each other during the conferences.Last year, the notes were strewn across the floor of Blog's usual meeting room. This year, we had no such luck. Desperate to relive my former glory, I forced some other bloggers to come with me to raid the classrooms that had been used for MUN. We stuck our hands into multiple wet, kinda gross trash cans to find the notes that lurked at the bottom (note: BUSUN, can you guys recycle? Please? It would make my job a little less disgusting). But what we found disappointed us. Not a single note mentioned underage drinking, partying in hotel rooms, salacious snapchats, or really any gossip at all. When did high schoolers get so lame? Are they all too busy making fidget-spinners and charging their juuls to try to flirt with each other? However, what we did find was a lot of confusion, self-doubt, devious plotting, disillusionment, a hint of romance, and most of all an overwhelming desire to go get food. So, I guess that does kind of sound like high school after all. Without further ado, I present you with the best of Sayles 205, Sayles 204 and the second floor of Paige-Robinson: And now, for what really matters:    I really hope this Hostage got their Starbucks. We hope you enjoyed our finest journalistic efforts! And Brown MUN pre-frosh, try to loosen up a little. Model UN conferences are for two things and two things only: padding your resume and hooking up. Next year, let’s put a little more emphasis on the latter. Images via, Ebba Brunnstrom '19, Sayles 204, Sayles 205, and Paige-Robinson Hall second floor trash cans.