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Let me tell you about the time my classmates tried to stage a coup on me.

Hello everyone. This is Kelly Mara here and no, it's not calamari. If you've

been watching me regularly, you might know that for the past 2 years, I've

been back in school. It's always super busy and there's been some ups and

downs, but generally I've been really enjoying it. However, this event

genuinely kind of traumatized me, so I guess I just like a chance to be able to

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Okay, let's start with some important background information before we get

into the story. Now, while my university itself has

existed for over 20 years, my faculty is still a pretty new addition. And by new,

I mean it launched in 2024 and my class is literally the first class of this

major and faculty ever. So, there's a lot of uncharted water to traverse here

and you might say it's even a little bit dangerous.

Okay, okay. In all seriousness, as someone who has gone to college before

in Australia, which is a more Western individualistic society, and now going

to college in my home country of Indonesia, which is an Eastern

collectivist society, their approaches to college education couldn't be more

different. As most of my audience is American, you're probably more familiar

with the typical college life of going to classes, going to parties, living in

dorms, and repeating the cycle. That was definitely what I experienced when I

studied in Australia. You go to classes, do your pracs, go home, study and do

assignments, go to sleep, and do it all over again the next day. Maybe if you

were lucky, you hung out with your friends sometimes to eat out and study

together or go do something fun. Or maybe you volunteered to help with

campus events because you think it'll look good on your CV. But maybe that was

just because I was an incredibly ambitious, high-performing student who

wanted to make the most of her grades because it was damn expensive and I

wasn't going to waste my parents' money. I wasn't even really aware that student

organizations existed at my uni because it just never came up and it never

really affected my daily living as a student. And whenever I was involved in

some sort of organized event, it was usually mostly planned by staff from the

events and planning department or master students who were usually also part of

the teaching staff for undergrads. But student organization in Indonesia is an

entirely different beast because what I learned is that the university staff are

very hands-off in a lot of things, even in faculty events and orientation week.

And oftentimes will leave planning, organizing, fundraising, and execution

of these events entirely to the students. And honestly, that gave me so

much admiration and respect to Indonesian students because you guys,

and I guess that includes me now, are put to work for literally no pay at all.

And I know this isn't just in university, student organization is a

big thing in high schools here as well. But need I remind you, I was

homeschooled, so I never got to experience any of that.

Until now. So, here's the thing with being the

first class of your major ever. You will have to be involved in student

organization one way or another because it's a small cohort and bigger

organizations like student associations require a lot of members and the custom

here is that it's expected for every faculty to have its own students

association to represent them in inter-university events and

competitions. So, you're going to be part of the main staff whether you want

to or not. Whether as a division member, a division leader, or even president or

vice president. I remember nursing also had a nursing association back in my

first undergrad days, but it was entirely optional and I was just a

member who barely even did anything, so it's not really the same. But, my

university had a specific rule where you could only start a students association

after you have at least classes of two different years in the faculty. And

there was only one class, so that was a problem for next year. What we did need

to have right off the jump was a class administration. Basically, we needed a

class president, a vice president, a secretary, and a treasury. I don't think

I need to explain to you the job descriptions of each role or why they're

necessary. I'm sure you've all been to high school before and have had a

student council. But, for us specifically, because we were the first

class and everyone, including the staff, were still figuring things out as we

went, the student council basically worked as a support system to give

students a line of contact with the staff, give staff direct feedback from

the students, as well as give reminders on every exam and assignments we have to

worry about. Oh, and organizing events outside of just academic stuff like

dinners and outings and class trips. But, we'll get there. But, the thing is,

as I've been told by my academic advisors, being class president doesn't

even go on your CV really. I'm not sure why. So, it's pretty much just extra

work with no real incentive. But for me at least, it gave me an opportunity to

get closer to the teaching staff and also get my name out there in terms of

post grad opportunities. Oh, yeah. I should mention I'm class

president. But I wasn't always. So, let me give you the tea on that. Our class

administration was actually formed during orientation week on the

insistence of our dean. We had literally just known each other for a few days at

that point and we didn't even have any campaigns prepared since we were still

in our orientation week just surviving that because let me tell you, Indonesian

university inductions are no joke and can go really, really far sometimes. But

for us, it was mostly just getting up at 3:00 a.m. every day and doing activities

until 6:00 p.m. for 3 days straight. Some faculties, though, will have their

own faculty induction on top of the university one that can last for months.

But my faculty didn't because it was still new.

But back to the topic. We basically had to vote for our class administration

right then and there and I was in the running for class president because I

had already gone to university before and I was a nurse, so I had some level

of experience in leadership and college administration, I suppose. But how we

did it was we chose a few female candidates and a few male candidates.

Then the rest of the class voted for their favorite male candidate and female

candidate and they would essentially be the new president and vice president.

Now, I was voted as the favorite female candidate and I had to go up against the

male candidate for who got to be president and vice president.

But before we got to vote on that, the dean stepped in and basically said the

class president had to be a guy. Misogyny.

So, he made the guy the president, and I became his vice president. However, like

I said, because we did this campaign before we really knew each other, this

guy who was voted as class president turned out to be a pretty not great guy

and wasn't the best role model. I'm not going to go too much into it because

it's irrelevant for the story, and it's its own can of worms, but the faculty

staff eventually ended up stepping in and stripping him of his title after the

first semester and making me president instead. And that's how I became class

president. We picked a new vice president, and that was that. The class

administration was complete. Bear with me because we're still in the context

section right now. Now, we make it to the second year. We

lose half the class because it's medicine. It's a really tough course. It

happens. And now, the class is split in two, and our secretary is one of the

ones that got held back. Our finances are split now, and half of the class has

a completely different curriculum than the rest. So, assignment reminders and

schedules are redundant cuz they're completely different. Okay. So, just get

a new secretary specifically for the upper years and a new administration for

the lower years, right? Well, mind you, the class was already

small, and now there's less of us. And as soon as we start second year, we're

bombarded with more work, and it got super busy super fast, so it kind of got

pushed to the wayside. We essentially just paused the joint savings, and that

was that for the whole semester as we all locked in. And yeah, I will

acknowledge some fault here. We should have gotten this sorted out way sooner

and kept it pushing, but at that point, I felt that everyone was kind of too

burnt out to bother and pulling everyone into a meeting would just be using up

more energy that people already didn't have. And mind you, this was all very

new to us. It was all quite literally unprecedented and I had never done

student organization before. I was homeschooled for God's sake, so I just

did the best that I could. But, that ended up causing problems.

And that's where the main premise of this story comes in.

So, there's this medical students union in Indonesia that's been very eager for

our university to join their ranks. But, the problem is to join that

organization, we need to have a students association first, which, you may

remember, requires us to have at least one class of underclassmen before we do

so. So, we've literally just been waiting for a new batch of students to

enroll so we can make a students association. And we've been putting off

these organizations attempts to push us into meetings and participating in their

work programs until we have one. This situation is very much putting the cart

before the horse and I was not having any of it.

Now, where things went wrong is this organization tried reaching out to our

class secretary to meet up yet again and they were really insistent and at this

point, we had already been split into two classes. And she knows that we can't

really participate in their meetups in any meaningful way other than just

networking, so she asked someone else to go instead.

We'll call him Z. So, Z is not part of the class

administration. He's just a regular student from our class, but he's usually

down to do a lot of extracurricular stuff like this.

So, Z attends the first meeting with the class president of our underclassmen,

the class of '25. We'll call him A. And mind you, the class administration

of class '24, my class, has no idea this was happening aside from our secretary.

Then they get invited to a second networking event, and this time A brings

a few members from '25's class administration, and Z

brings his posse. And not a single one of them was a

member of the class '24 administration. And mind you, A was under the impression

that I, as class '24's president, was aware of all of this.

I wasn't. Enter X.

Now, X is someone pretty infamous mostly outside of our faculty because she was

involved in a lot of student organizations in our uni, one of which

being the University Student Council, where she was actually vice chairman of

a certain division. But she didn't really perform that well

in her role and got replaced pretty quickly. From what I hear, she just

didn't do well under pressure and tended to panic easily, which, if I'm being

petty but honest, aren't exactly stellar traits for a future doctor. But that's

not the reason she became infamous. No, the reason she became infamous and has a

lot of people who don't like her is because she's kind of a pick-me and

literally spread rumors about the chairman of her division because she

thought she was too close with the guy she liked. Even though the reason the

chairman and that guy spent a lot of time together was because they were

literally working together, and that guy already had a girlfriend. So yeah, that

should set a precedent for her character.

Then one day during a faculty event, X comes up to me and tells me that she

wants to talk about our students' association. And I was like, "Oh, sure.

Absolutely. Let's talk because this is an important conversation that I haven't

been sure how to bring up yet, but I really need to actually get out of the

way." And she tells me that she'd like to have a forum discussing it soon

because she and some other people have spoken to the med students' union and

that our faculty needs to make a students' association soon because we

already have two class years now. However, according to her, they also

said that we should have a class president reshuffle.

Essentially, she just told me that this organization advised her and whoever

went with her that day that I needed to be replaced.

So, obviously, I ask her why. And X tells me that the organization advised

them to look for a class president who is able to embrace and unify the class

and that I wasn't doing that. So, obviously, I go, "Okay. And have you

discussed this with the rest of the class yet? And do they agree?" And she

goes, "No, not yet. We're going to talk about it in the forum." So, I go, "Okay,

then let's have a forum with everyone and see if they feel the same way and

would like a new class president." Because I was trying to be fair and

professional and at the time she seemed to agree with me. I set a date for when

that forum is going to happen and that was that.

I'll admit that kind of left me a bit shaken because it literally came out of

nowhere. No one had ever said anything to me

about my work as class president and everything seemed to be running

smoothly. But even if it wasn't, I couldn't know that it wasn't unless

people spoke up, you know? And it's not like I haven't asked,

either. People just always seem to kind of put up a facade of everything being

fine in front of me and then talk mad behind my back. It basically ruined

the rest of the event for me because that was all I was thinking about. That

possibly everyone in class secretly hated me. Then a few days later out of

the blue X and some other members of their posse decide to put together this

dinner plan at a pretty nice restaurant in town.

I immediately got a bad feeling from this.

Everyone else oblivious to my plight obviously welcomed the get-together

because we hadn't really been able to organize something like this before

because it's impossible to get everyone together during the holidays to do this

because everyone just off out of town as soon as the last class is over.

And these students chose a date right before our big exam, so no one could

really go anywhere. And mind you, this was only for the half of the class that

didn't get held back. They've stun locked us basically.

And the night before the dinner, I genuinely could not sleep because I knew

they were going to do something, but I had no evidence of that, so all I could

do was be paranoid by myself. And it turns out uh based on

conversations with some of their other friends, I was right.

So the dinner finally comes around and I try to think positively and just enjoy

myself. And it actually goes really well and everyone was in high spirits, but I

notice X is pretty tense. She's always kind of like that around the girls

though. She's only really peppy when she talks to guys because remember, she's a

pick-me. But then just as we were about to close

our tab and move on to the next hangout spot, Z and X come up and start to make

an announcement. They start talking about our students

association, which blindsides me because I already told X we were doing this a

different time, which was after our big exams. And mind

you, we were in the middle of a crowded restaurant. And then they proceed to

nominate themselves as president and vice president of our students

association. And again, sure, you're allowed to

nominate yourselves. That's perfectly within your right to make your

intentions known. However, then they start acting like they're already in

power despite our association not even existing yet, because they then proceed

to push for a class administration reshuffle. Basically, they bring up that

point again that a class president is supposed to unite the class and create a

sense of solidarity, and I've fallen short of that. And you know, I would

expect if I was falling short of that, someone would have given me feedback so

that I can correct it instead of just resorting straight to impeachment, but

that's just me. And here, they've even started shifting

the goalposts a little saying that class president should be able to keep the

class together and solid after graduation. And that's actually when the

real work starts for them, when A, the literal job description of a class

president is to serve as the primary leader and representative for their

academic class, be responsible for presiding over meetings, organizing

events like fundraisers, extracurriculars, and yes, reunions,

too, and acting as a liaison between students and school administration. All

of which I am doing all the time, beyond their knowledge, apparently, cuz they

didn't even know I was doing stuff outside of school hours for them.

And B, how can you judge and condemn me for my ability to keep the class

together after graduation when we haven't even graduated yet.

Oh, but that's not all, because Z then proceeds to say how, because we voted

for the current class administration before we really knew each other, I was

only class president because the dean promoted me. So, my status isn't valid.

And genuinely, that really hurt my feelings because it kind of just brushes

aside all the work I put into all of this, and you know, all the time

spent to make this class go as smoothly as I could.

It just It really made me feel

angry and disrespected. And now, they want to fill the empty spots in our

class administration, which is obviously for class secretary,

and also class president. While I was sitting there,

still as the active president. And

I swear that was the most humiliating, infuriating,

disrespectful thing I had ever experienced. And

all in the middle of a crowded restaurant, by the way. All of this was

public. And while I was still stun locked, they

immediately told everyone to nominate a new class president. And their posse

immediately picks out someone they had already agreed upon internally to be my

replacement. And then they tell everyone to cast their votes. Me or this other

person. I didn't participate in the vote.

And this other person won. Allegedly.

I don't know if they rigged the vote. They could have, cuz these people are

not trustworthy. Now, no hate to this person, obviously.

He was thrown on the spot as much as I was and he at least had some decorum in

him to not just shamelessly accept without my blessing as current acting

president and only then did people actually let me have my say. And

obviously, I wasn't going to take it laying down.

So first of all, I asked them what grounds they had for doing this and X

claims that they've already spoken to the faculty staff about it and again,

they claim that it was on the encouragement of that student union

that's been really pushy about getting us to join them. Then I basically make

what I told X public. That they can't just decide to replace the class

administration without actually asking the class in the first place. And

obviously, the other members of my administration back me up on this and

point out that the entire class isn't even here. So therefore, it's not even a

valid vote if it's just 50% or less. Plus, our friends that got held back

were in a tougher spot than us since they obviously didn't follow our class

administration anymore and aren't really part of class 25. So that was a bigger

issue we should be focusing on, too. And we ended up just pointlessly debating

back and forth about what the class president is or what isn't supposed to

be or do and what the class administration should look like until

the restaurant was closing and we were the only ones left there.

And nothing of value was achieved. It pretty much ruined the night for me and

my perception of most people in my class as I was no longer sure who I could

trust or who was scheming behind my back. Even the teaching staff.

And I pretty much just went home feeling the worst I had in a long time.

But as much as I wanted to, I couldn't just run away from it. I had to face it

head on because otherwise, things would only get worse for me.

So, I started with talking to the teaching staff that X had mentioned she

had spoken to. And you know what? While they all

confirmed that they came to talk briefly about making our students association,

no particular detail or depth there, there was absolutely no mention of

changing the class administration. In fact, every staff member I told about

this were equally shocked and confused because class administration had nothing

to do with the structure of the students association. They were two completely

separate governing bodies. You don't need to change the class administration

to start the students association either. So, that was a big lie. And then

obviously, I spoke to A to see what he knew about this. And the reason I even

knew to talk to A at the time was because uh when I was with some friends

who were more in support of me and all this, they told me that A had been

involved in the meetings with the student union. And they know this

because some members of Z's posse had posted a private Instagram story of them

at this networking event, which also let me know who in our class was in on it

the entire time. So, I talked to A and that was how I learned about the

meetings I mentioned earlier with that students union.

Obviously, I asked him what they talked about and he told me that they were

mostly pushing them to make a students association and that Z had told them

that we were already in the process of drafting one, which shocked A because we

haven't spoken about it and he was under the impression that Z was working with

me the entire time instead of scheming behind my back. So, obviously, I tell A

this. He's surprised and I ask him if the student union said anything about a

class administration reshuffle, to which A says there was no talk of that

at all. So, either A is lying or X is lying, and

seeing her track record with previous false claims, I'm more inclined to

believe the latter. Now, A was also the one who told me that

our class secretary was involved because I had previously reprimanded him for

acting on class 24's behalf without consulting class 24's administration

first, and that he assumed she would have told me.

And he was right to assume that, and I was wrong to assume that she would. So,

obviously I then went to confront her. I tell her what happened during dinner,

and then press her on what she knew, and she basically claims she didn't know

they were going to do that at that time because they haven't been that close

since she got held back. Different schedules and all that, but that she's

always known that X has ambitions of becoming president of the Faculty of

Medicine Students' Association. Now, admittedly, our faculty is a pretty hot

topic among other faculties because it's so new and because it's a pretty big

subject, so we do have a lot of scrutiny on us. And I guess because X is already

involved in the wider university's organizations, a lot more people know

about her, but not for a good reason like I said. And I guess she's not

exactly shy about making her ambitions of being president of our students'

association known because everyone outside of our faculty knows about it,

too. And they're all deeply, deeply concerned about the future of our

association because of that. So, yeah, the optics of her becoming

president aren't great, and she's already president of a school club, and

our class secretary knows this, so she points that out and tells her that

that's a conflict of interest for her, and she shouldn't be president because

of that. So, she nominates Z for president instead, and appoints herself

as his vice president. And the reason for that?

Well, from what her friends told me, it's because she has a big, fat crush on

him, and I guess she thinks I'm the one standing in her way now. And together,

they made a mess of our student governance, which, yeah, is an appealing

quality for a president and vice president, for sure.

I think the worst part is that, from what I heard, they didn't even feel

remotely sorry for what they did. Like, they genuinely believe that what they

did was justified, just not done in the best way.

It just genuinely, sincerely feels like they don't even care about my feelings

or the harm they would cause by doing this. And more than anything, it just

felt like a way for them to humiliate me in front of everyone.

And since this whole thing went down right before our semester break, I

couldn't even enjoy my break because I was so distraught by all this BS.

Of course, I also asked our class secretary how they're faring in terms of

student governance being sort of in a state of limbo in that sense, and she

told me that they're pretty much following class of '25 administration

now, and it's going well, and it makes things easier that way. So,

with all that information, how did it end?

Well, I've gathered my evidence and gotten the testimonies I needed, so I

scheduled a proper meeting with the entire class to address things once and

for all, just as initially planned. On the The week of the second semester

of our second year, I got everyone together and at this point the entire

faculty knows about what happened. Our class, the underclassmen, even the

teaching staff. At this meeting, I basically recount

what had happened during the dinner a few weeks ago just to get everyone on

the same page. And then I tell everyone right then and there that if they want

to change the class administration with new people after getting to know each

other for the past 2 years, this is their chance to do so. Dead

silence. So, my secretary had to go one by one to

ask people if they want to keep things as they are or change it. And everyone

except for Z and X unanimously agreed that they still want me to be class

president. Not even their own friends backed them up. And it was also at this

point that I let everyone know about all the research I've done. I've

cross-checked with A, I've cross-checked with the teaching staff, I've even

cross-checked to the student union and none of them ever had any mention of an

administration reshuffle. And so, I directly ask X where this idea

came from. And she

panics. She looks straight at Z

and Z doesn't really answer me. He kind of just says that he was in the wrong

for that, but that it's already happened. So, let's just move on from

it. And you know what? you, dude. I may have also said out

loud that because nobody else seems to have a problem with how I run things,

I'm going to assume that Z and X's actions are more of an issue with me

personally and that I'll deal with that outside of this meeting.

And I think that scared them, which good.

So, obviously I also acknowledge my shortcomings and mistakes and I asked

them what they feel they want from me as class president. If they want class

outings and gatherings and if they think that's something necessary they want to

see. And to be fair everyone agreed. So because I know that I'm weak in that

department, I create a new role in our administration for event planning and

appoint someone for that. One of the members of Z and X's posse that helped

plan the dinner in fact. And then we voted for a new secretary to

replace our previous one for our class. We decide that students who get held

back will follow the class administration of the lower year and use

that as a precedent for new generations coming in and that was that.

I like to think that I managed to wrap it up quite tidily.

Things are fine now and I mostly just avoid X and Z.

From what I was told, apparently after this meeting X was crying which is crazy

cuz I didn't even do anything to her other than kind of confront her on the

shitty thing she did. But unfortunately it is harder for me to

completely ignore Z because we're on the same research team together.

A research team that I'm leading by the way. So why the did he think

pulling this would be a good idea? I mean he probably didn't.

None of them did. So I'll just have to see where it goes.

Who knows? Maybe there'll be another story time like this in the future.

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