BUGMUN from the eyes of a lawyer

So, it was my first Model United Nations. Honestly, when I filled in the form I hardly knew what it was all about although I was given a very minimal idea by my friend. As soon as I got the invitation letter from the BUGMUN Secretariat, I started looking up for MUNs and how it all works out there. At the outset, the information I got, reminded me of my Bar training days since it involved professional attire, research, negotiation and what not.
I only wish I knew about MUNs prior to going for my Bar Professional Training Course since it teaches you how to handle hectic pressure of research, speaking out professionally in front people you may feel alien to, in the beginning. It felt like only if I did this before going into my civil advocacy small group sessions I would have been confident there. MUN puts you in a mode of defending your country (assigned to you by the secretariat) from all the aspects possible not in an emotional way but in a logical manner supported by authentic data just like a lawyer defends his client at the court of law backing up his/her arguments with previous legal authorities.
Additionally, MUN helps one to reason well in a crisis situation arising out of nowhere at 4 am in the morning despite being dragged out of bed in the middle of your warm, cozy sleep. While writing this I remember a teacher of mine who would discourage us to become lawyers during our lectures with him, since he used to have days when he used to sleep off in his chair at the chambers whilst working through the night and wake up to find that it was time for court already and for other significant reasons not worthy of mentioning here.
I felt old attending the MUN since my committee mates included school girls from scholastic but yet so the experience tells me it never too late to start MUN-ing unless you are too old to be eligible, certainly. Further, I am not imposing my ideas on anyone when I say this but I believe being a law graduate does not do the magic for lawyers anymore. The world is developing rapidly at recent times and having a glossy title is not worth it when you know nothing but law only. We are the youth of a very young and beautiful nation. We are the future leaders of our country and being able to adapt to hectic schedules at our early age does prepare us to face real world problems with the weapons of logic and reasoning. Although I wished to dedicate this piece of writing to the law students of our country but all the thoughts about the youth being enlightened in a multi-dimensional manner is true for students of other subjects too.
Last but not the least anyone wishing to write their Bar application in the upcoming days should take up a habit of participating in MUNs since it would really make your application shine out bright and stand out in the crowd of many mainstream applications and that is one incentive I can give to the law students reading this here and now.

The writer is Barrister (Lincolns Inn, UK).