It is crazy how you learn new things in places you thought you explored thoroughly. I should not be surprised by that- my job is based on the idea that students learn all the time even in a residence hall they have been living in for a year or more. But I am learning a lot from places I am revisiting and old friends. My friend Alison is one of the coolest people I know and she is letting me hang out with her for the whole weekend! When I was in college I thought I was the coolest cat there ( no surprise) until I started working in the Student Volunteer Bureau with Alison. We were co directors and helped plan events and volunteered all over the place. I think I learned more running a student organization than I did in all of my classes. It is hard to convince students of that sometimes, I wish there was a way for them to see what I see. But anyway Alison and I are revisiting some of those memories and in one of those cities we volunteered in together way back when.
It is true what all of us "old folks" working in Higher Ed say, the friends you make outside the classroom in all of those activities are friends for life.
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