Economeast so far has been a fun experience for me. In season 1, my main role in the activity was being a “journalist” and writing articles for the publication that should be published towards the end of the year. However, I have recently joined the sponsorship team, which as the name suggests, is where I look for sponsors for the publication. I think this made me more involved with the activity itself because now I played a key role in making sure that all the hard work everyone put in actually bears fruit, in the form of Economeast 2018. I think this was important in making me feel more significant in the activity itself. However, alongside the added responsibility came the added need for collaboration and commitment. I collaborated with the head of sponsorship in the form of messaging and emails, and building this relationship was important, especially since she is also the sponsorship head of my yearbook group. I think having that really made it much easier to work with her because we both understood how tedious it was to wait for the possible sponsors and how hard it was to get responses from them too.
I also definitely saw some similarities in the Yearbook and the Economeast sponsors, which made it difficult for me because there was competition for sponsors in both groups and it was complicated to favour the sponsorship of one publication over another. For example, I was to contact Prepzone to sponsor Economeast, however, they chose to sponsor yearbook itself. So although I was a little disheartened in Economeast that Wednesday (since Prepzone was the only response we had), by the time Yearbook came around on Friday, I was happy (and having mixed emotions at the same time).
I think Economeast also requires a lot of commitment because it needs 2 articles per “journalist”. It definitely added to my already long to-do list, because although I wanted to finish it quickly and in time, I also wanted it to be a good read for the readers. I think that the major reason behind why I completed them both on time was because of the leadership of the group, who are constantly on top of everything so I didn’t want to let them down. Furthermore, the longer it takes for everyone to finish, the longer the magazine comes out and I really want to see my name and my photo on the initial pages.
Thank you!
