Resident Assistants Report

Resident Life really is a lot more than I was expecting. The amount of people involved with trying to make our lives easier throughout our stay here on campus is outstanding. The resident assistants really have made my life easier and helped me very much. I knew about the resident coordinators, and I knew they do a lot, but I don’t think it really hit me how much each of them did for us until taking this class and going to this meeting. On top of all that all the other people, the counselors, the secretaries, Dr. Miller, the list goes on, all these people are here to make our lives easier and I’ve never been more proud to have the opportunity to have just the possibility of being a part of that and contributing to helping all the students
This meeting was very helpful and informational. I was in Mr. Ippolito’s group discussion. Which in itself was a little intimidating because he was one of the reasons I decided to do this, and I didn’t want to screw up. The first day of orientation he kind of scared me with his speech. I really have come to respect and look up to all of the residence coordinators but “Ippy” was my hall’s coordinator and he really made me feel like this place was “my home lower-case h.” We began in this meeting asking a variety of questions from questions about being a resident assistant to questions about Mr. Ippolito’s experiences as a coordinator and as a resident assistant. I personally asked about the bulletin boards, as far as the apartments went I really had no idea where they were I had never seen any when I was up there. I learned that there are a few places the biggest place being in the stairwells and that they’re electronic. To do our bulletin boards we’ll get a templet and we’ll submit our design to be put up. We asked as a group what was expected of us as resident assistants. We got told a great deal of information. We were told about the hours we’d need to “be on