Today was a productive one. Finished the RA summer newsletter. I really enjoy putting the newsletter together. It is a great creative outlet, but it is full of so much excitement. Excitement about the upcoming year and the fun times to be had during training. Isn't it funny how when April rolls around you are counting the minutes until the end of the year and then once June starts you are counting the days until it starts again? Well there are 66 days until RA training starts :)
I also have been reading articles about students and creating case studies to prepare for training. Part of that reading is also reading stories about other institutions and troubles that they have dealt with in the last year. Some of those situations seem all too hypothetical and impossible to imagine but if I have learned NOTHING is impossible when working at a college. I have been feeling quite fortunate lately, especially given the last two weeks of my adventure. Hearing Jim Lovell speak about emergencies and impossibly preparing for the unexpected has really given me a lot to think about as I plan training for the RHDs and RAs. I am trying to find the most crazy scenarios so that we can talk them out as a team and prepare for our course of action so that hopefully our "guts" will react the best way possible when confronted with our own emergencies.
The next step is to figure out how to bottle that trust-your-gut emotion because it is not easy to teach. This might be the million dollar idea I have been looking for- who said higher ed was not lucrative?
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