Sharing is caring/Alumni-Current student relations

[Maengelito]

As far as the direction of the club, with new members diversification comes. No matter what the motorsports aspect of the club will be there, and will be kept as strong as possible. But we must realize that expansion leads to new interests, For example bling and what not, we just need to realize that no matter the interests of certain club members we are all Auto Enthusiasts and love cars and their capabilities.

the problem with this is we were all bling ricers at one point. okay scratch that, some of us still are. my integra had big shiny wheels, blue acura badges, hyperwhite turn signal bulbs, lowering springs with 100k+ mile stock shocks because i'll admit, i thought it looked cool. but there's a natural progression with car enthusiasts. some dont realize their full potential, some dont even know the next step and some think the bottom is the top. this is a common phenomenon. i give you the pyramid of speed. most of you probably have already seen this:

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i hope none of you are street racers or freeway racers, but i think the mindset is similar in that buying parts for a car show is different than buying functional parts. example, the fire extinguisher in some cars makes it look like a "race car" because they might be in such immediate danger that they need to squirt themselves with a fire extinguisher much quicker than they can get out of a car nevermind that the extinguisher is mounted in a custom plexiglass box in the backseat. i just want to limit the amount of time an MMer spends on the bottom levels of this pyramid. its not that we look down upon younger students because they want a new carbon fiber hood or other bling part, but its just that the OGs were all there once and realized the error of our ways. we want to impart knowledge the same way that i saw the light when i was first coming to MM track events