EESTEC Magazine Vol 33 2013/2 | Page 9

Summer goes by and when you stop for a moment you realize that a third of our mandate passed already. Since my election, many have asked me why I chose to candidate for the Treasurer position and I answered with various reasons. As it is the case for many decisions you make, afterwards you either have no clue why you did it because the way of doing just felt good, or you have many different reasons. 9 For my case the second statement meets my decision to candidate and although there are many reasons, I strongly believe it all comes down to one fact: The more you invest the more you can learn. I learned this in several projects, I had been lucky to be part of. You can participate in a lot of projects and teams but as long as you are just a member, go to regular meetings and answer the mails from your team, you can only achieve very little or in most cases nothing at all. On the other hand if you step up, take responsibility and move things forward, even if third parties have a reason to see the project as a failure in the end, for you it will never be like that. You learned so much on the path to ?nish the project and you can use that experience for your next projects. But therefore you have to be willing to face the challenge and to accept the possibility of failure. So there is the question left: Are you ready to get the most out of EESTEC for you? Join us for the second half of our mandate.