The European Studies Organisation (ESO) shall be holding its Annual General Meeting for the current executive term tomorrow.
As every AGM is likely to bring about goodbyes, one of the students who shall be bidding farewell to ESO tomorrow is a student who loved and valued the organisation from his very first days in the European Studies course at University, Emanuel Zammit.
Joining ESO in December 2014 as Financial Officer, Emanuel soon took on the role of Vice President in February 2015, before being elected as President in July of the same year. Again, he was re-elected as President of the organisation in May 2016.
As Emanuel Zammit’s story within ESO reaches its final pages, The Third Eye conducted a brief interview with him, during which he spoke about his experience.
1. What made you join ESO in the first place?
After being a student activist even at Junior College, the motivation and objective to represent the students’ body continued to grow further in me. Upon commencing the European Studies course, and being introduced to this new organisation, I felt an urge to represent my course mates and all European Studies students in order to help them with all their concerns that may arise throughout their stay at the University of Malta.
2. How would you describe your experience within ESO?
It has been an amazing journey which taught me lessons that no other experience could possibly teach me. Being part of ESO has helped me get to know new people who in the end helped me to achieve what we, as an organisation, managed to achieve.
3. Which is your best memory?
The fact that we had started as an unknown organisation, developing into where we are today will always be my best memory within this organisation.
4. Who is the person you’ll be missing the most?
I will miss my whole executive, as without all their help and efforts, we wouldn’t have achieved what we actually did.
5. What is your word of advice to your successor?
Never forget from where we have started. We managed to achieve all of this with the help of every executive member and student. Never forget our main objective; that of representing the whole European Studies students’ body; both on campus and with external entities.
