Blog Post Contest Entry: Zombie Readiness Task Force at Your Service

Writer's Note: This blog entry is for a contest at the University of Chicago, where I'm a student. This post will be for the Uncommon Blog, which is a blog for prospective and admitted students. Winner gets their blog posted on the Uncommon Blog. I wrote about a club called the Zombie Readiness Task Force just for fun. Hope you guys like it!

I am proud to say that I am a member of the Zombie Readiness Task Force (ZRTF), an RSO based around anything zombie-related. Now I know what you’re thinking. Well, I probably don’t, but I’m sure many of you aren’t expecting zombies to take over the world by force. But we here at the ZRTF understand that the thought of a zombie apocalypse, though extremely cool to consider, is very unlikely to actually happen. But that really doesn’t matter, at least to us. Sure, we’re a club in its infancy, and maybe we don’t have as many members as say Model UN. We’re just a couple of people who just happen to know each other and share an interest in zombies, though the free pizza at every meeting is always a plus. We even found zombie-related activities that don’t involve killing the walking dead. Just recently, a group of members, including myself, attended a lecture from a former UChicago professor by the name of Daniel Drezner. He gave a talk on international policy and zombies, and it is a talk that was not the least bit trivialized because of the zombie involvement. It was actually enhanced. And of course, what kind of anti-zombie force do you think we would be without a little “Humans vs. Zombies” (hopefully)? For those who don’t know about HvZ, it is pretty much a massive, two-week long game where the humans try to survive under the pressure of attacking zombies. So, in about a month since its conception, members of the ZRTF have held a couple of meetings, attended a lecture on international policy and zombies, and proposed a campus-wide game of Humans vs. Zombies. Most importantly, we turned something that could have easily been disregarded somewhere else into a nearly full-fledged, funded, and fun RSO. And of course, if UChicago does happen to be overrun by zombies, at least we’ll be ready.

Update: I have PICTURES!

The Presentation

Professor Daniel Drezner