Let's look at past recruitments by our seniors so far - there's like, say, maybe an average of 30-40 people per year, but we've broken past that barrier. We've got 60+ members signing up for Guitar Ensemble - how cool is that?
Perhaps it's the electric guitar goodness that attracted them, or that we're simply too good. I don't know.
Now check this out - Guitar Ensemble has become a niche CCA, I was told. During our discussion someone said it could be a typo error or something that made Guitar niche, so the first thing I thought was: "Okay... even if it was a typo, just remove the "h" outta "niche", duh!" It's still a nice CCA to be in anyway.
Guitar pwnage - SRPowerhouse4Life!
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Yeah, probably that was what they had in mind when they signed up for Guitar. And it was no wonder anyway - Jonathan and Mustaqim brought their electric guitars, amplifiers, and all the other neat Megavolt-Rock-Energy mumbo-jumbo that practically rocked the entire college silly, man. The best spot was actually the concourse - but the band members were whacking their drums so hard, the guitar couldn't be heard at all. Onward to action plan B - turn the master volume to the max, and feel the mini-Haiti underneath your feet.
It still wasn't enough to grab the JC1 freshmen's attention. And for God's sake, nobody was actually shouting for people to join Guitar at all - so we took the initiative. "JOIN GUITAR~!" we shouted. Additional tag lines included: "Bring music to your life!" "We rock the house!" "You won't regret it!" etc.
It did the trick - within the first hour or so I was told that already 48 people signed up. More came later, and despite the high appeal for sports CCAs, we managed to exceed our target of 50 people signing up. Marvellous.
Except that probably what they didn't realise that it wasn't all about electric guitar and stuff like that - it's more classical. However, they still gotta start from scratch first before learning all those cool finger-swiping moves on the guitar at lightning speed, isn't it?
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