Hello, friends!
ACF’s birthday is October 1, 2008. It was on that day
that we were officially recognized as a student group at Mizzou. The weeks
leading up to it were probably the most tense of my life.
Here’s the thing about the student group process: it has
to be completely student led. Students are the ones who submit the paperwork.
Students are the ones who answer the questions during the interview.
Ultimately, the students are the ones who have to own the group in order for it
to function.
We weren’t a super old group when it was time to apply to
be an official student org. We had just started meeting in a building instead
of an apartment and hadn’t reached that critical number of students yet so as
to make us an unstoppable force. We had young students who were still trying to
figure out how to be family. I did what I could to prep them but when I heard
that I wasn’t allowed to be at the interview, I was less than pleased and more
than nervous.
I should have known better. I forgot that ACF students
are all stars, that Mizzou wants more clubs, and the God is not going to let an
interview stop his purposes from being accomplished. 7 years later, ACF
continues to be an org in good standing but it all started with that one day in
the Fall.
Have an excellent day!
~Adam
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