Walking out of an MSA meeting junior year—and on the way to dinner with the brothers—we felt a sense of accomplishment. It was one of those meetings that filled you with energy and excitement. We eagerly continued to discuss the new ideas presented in the meeting. We thought back to what we achieved over the past couple of years; and we allowed our imaginations to run as we thought of how the MSA can grow and what it could become.
Then it hit us. Once this generation of MSA students graduates, everything—for all practical purposes—will pretty much reset. Everything we did will just become memories of a past MSA. All the accumulated experience over four years will be lost to the future generation. Even if alumni are still connected to the MSA, not everything is transferred from one generation to the next (sometimes the new generation just doesn’t want to hear it). Although MSA’s are generally some of the most active student groups on any campus, they tend to reinvent the wheel every generation or two.
