[TrevorG]

I had a great time at CoC. A decent amount of the classroom style training was your typical useless Tony Robbins style crap, and I learned the most when my facilitator stopped teaching from the book and let us all talk about the various problems our chapters had and how other delegates had approached the same problems. I took away hundreds of little ideas on how to improve my chapter just from talking to other delegates about how they run things.

The Riley University simulation was intense. We were all formed into over 20 different "chapters" around a fictional campus, given chapter histories (all were different), elected officers, and then had to deal with scenarios that actually happened to real chapters. It ended up being pretty stressful, as the simulators really piled on the problems to the point that it was ridiculous. I was on the Judicial Committee for my chapter, and we were unable to function because both the EC and LC were absent while meeting with simulated Nationals officers, school officials, ect. Technically, I was ineligible to do anything anyways because I had been accused of forcing pledges to do the Elephant Walk, so I would have been suspended. Later, our entire pledge class (played by other delegates) decided to drop shirt because we ignored them while in a meeting about how to handle allegations of statutory rape. It was quite an interesting experience.

As Recruitment Chair, I got alot of of the "Recruitment Challenge", where we had to draw up a detailed recruitment plan for the year using hypothetical chapter information given to us. This proved very difficult to do in only an hour, but I learned alot from the other three guys on my team. I also helped draw up the recruitment plan for my Riley University chapter.