Candidate for Vice President
Voices of Students
Hello, my name is Jonathan Martinez Munoz and I am pursuing a degree in accounting. In addition to being a student, I am also currently the president of the Business Entrepreneurship Club, and an accounting tutor here at BMCC. I am running for the position of Vice President because I want to make BMCC into a place where you can make genuine connections.
The club I am a part of doubles as a friend group. We spend time together on campus every day, outside of club hours, from the moment our classes end until campus is closed. The only reason this is possible is because the club has a dedicated room that we can call our own. We spend the majority of our time there, studying for our classes, preparing for the next club meeting, playing board games, and hanging out. There should be more rooms like it around campus. I am confident that people can find comradery within campus, and make friends with people who were previously strangers, if we create areas dedicated to the students. Walk around campus, and you will find vacant rooms that are rarely used. Those rooms can be repurposed to create places where the whims and worries of the outside world can be temporarily forgotten, with people that can become friends.
Last semester, multiple clubs came together to create an event called Noche Blanca. The dress code was set to business casual, and a party was hosted on a commercial yacht. I was part of the team that made the event happen (burying myself in paperwork and pre-requisite forms) and as we fought to get it approved and worked through all the logistics that came with such an endeavor, the goal on everyone’s mind was, we want to make a night that will be remembered. We wanted an event where BMCC students can come together and celebrate the hard work they had accomplished throughout the semester. We should replicate this event again. I do not believe that it should be a one time thing. The celebration of hard work, and the creation of moments that make life fun, should not only happen once. Events like these should happen again and again. I would work towards that, in the hopes that such events would create an atmosphere within the student body that would allow friendships to be created.
Over the course of multiple semesters, I have made friends with people that I would have otherwise never met outside of this college. I would like the rest of the student body to experience that as well. I have a strongly held hope that one day BMCC will be spoken about as a place where you can find life-long friends, and I will work towards making that happen.
Best,
Jonathan Martinez Munoz
