One of the benefits of going to a large university consisting of approximately 30,000 students is that the school attracts politicians, such as Barack Obama, as well as big concert headliners. Obama gave two speeches at the University of Colorado, Boulder before his election last fall. I was lucky to attend both of these speeches which were free for students, while my friends who chose to go to smaller universities did not get the same opportunity to see a presidential candidate speak at their campus.

One of the benefits of going to a large university consisting of approximately 30,000 students is that the school attracts politicians, such as Barack Obama, as well as big concert headliners. Obama gave two speeches at the University of Colorado, Boulder before his election last fall. I was lucky to attend both of these speeches One of the benefits of going to a large university consisting of approximately 30,000 students is that the school attracts politicians, such as Barack Obama, as well as big concert headliners. Obama gave two speeches at the University of Colorado, Boulder before his election last fall. I was lucky to attend both of these speeches which were free for students, while my friends who chose to go to smaller universities did not get the same opportunity to see a presidential candidate speak at their campus.

I went to see President Obama speak on Sunday, September 2, 2012. Obama, along with the speakers before him, kept reiterating how important it is for students to participate in our democracy by, if nothing else, voting. Obama spent a lot of time addressing issues that directly affect international and domestic students. Obama’s goals for his second term centered around the idea “go forward, not backward,” meaning his goals and ideas lead to progress, as opposed to his challenger, Mitt Romney whose ideas he characterized as backward, especially on social issues such as marriage equality, healthcare, and family planning issues. Obama spent a lot of time talking about how he wants to keep interest rates on loans down while Romney, on the other hand, wants to raise the interest rates on student loans and cut funding for education.