I'll send $5 to the first Officer from 2017-2018 that responds to this thread

[Senor_Taylor]

So how are you going to incentivize them, other than begging/berating? People only do shit if they perceive it to be of value. We *are* talking about college kids here and the clubs I was a part of had similar issues, unless 1-2 people chose to give a shit and act like grown ups.

MM's core value is its alumni. Any club can be made and have meets are parking decks at night and do reckless shit on the weekends.

Not every club has resources like Alumni with connections to institutions like MAAP, Bimmerworld, NASA, SCCA, Speedshops like FlimFlam, RRT, Mach V, etc. Not every club keeps in touch with alumni to share knowledge and experience. Not every club has alumni to instruct at track events, or come help work on your car with you, or give you hand-me-down tools, etc. 

I'm not saying this because I am one, I'm saying this because despite you all being terrible terrible people, you've helped me shape my life and really pulled me from a shitty, closed minded upbringing with little window for success. Alumni connections are important. 

That is what makes MM great and what makes it different. The current students this year have been given very little opportunity to see this value. No Turducken, poor planning for the College Solo (Which is hard to do anyway), the car show now looks to suffer as well. Track weekends haven't been promoted. 

No one wants to participate on a forum where they have no connection to people on it. However, after meeting most of you and getting to know you, I have reasons to post here because we are all friends and invested in each other. A major focus on being a leader in this club is fostering a community where everyone can come together and form organic friendships like I have with the MM'ers I know. Hell, I live with one that I would have never met otherwise and my other close friends here in Nova are ALL alumni I wouldn't know without the club. 

Who knows, maybe the guys this year are best friends. I wouldn't know because they're in their own little silo. Maybe they're selling the track and we'll have a million people out there. I wouldn't know because the only mention of the track was the following in the last email:

"Next, just to remind everyone the NASA at VIR event will be taking place the weekend of March 23rd. This is an extremely good time, and we would love for as many people to come out as possible because you will see cars here that are simply amazing. There should also be tons of alumni for you to converse with, maybe about that car/bike you've been wanting to buy but don't know if it's in your best interest. We'll talk more about this at the classroom meeting. "

What if they can't make it to the meeting. How will they know anything about this? Link the frickin' thread WE ALREADY MADE FOR YOU.

Also,

"We look forward to seeing the current members and the alumni at all of the upcoming events! The GroupMe is the best way to stay informed on the events that are taking place. Just go under the "events" tab and you will see all of the upcoming events"

NO.

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My tone probably seems really aggressive right now. I don't mean it to. I've been speaking to the officers about this and I really hope they take it to heart.

However we're at a grand total of like 5 replies from them right now, so I'm not sure.

Adam gets an excused absence since he's at work all day during spring break.

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