week 3

three weeks in and i have written two papers and have a break next week....

on monday i left work early to meet with my advisor to finalize my "plan" and meet with my group for my student affairs class....the advisor meeting still lead me nowhere...i still have no "plan"....i thought the bureaucracy i deal with in my job was bad, this might be worse....but i can finally say, i get what our students have to go through....it's just crazy...i am here to get an education not to fill out three hundred forms and have to refill them out because it's not done the way the "committee" wants it done....

anyway, i then met my group at russell sage college...it's a small women's college in troy....our project is to check out the campus environment and then present about it....the campus environment was this- no existent....that's right, we saw very few students- it was a monday not a friday...where were the students??? the "student union" was two rooms big attached to an academic building and again, other than a few people having coffee, no activity....it was the strangest experience....

after i left my group, i went over to the mall to do homework...so, i sat in borders....when i arrived there was an older man there reading a loud to a woman about what a filabuster is....explaining to her who strom thurmond was....so, i listened....when she finally spoke, it seemed as though english is a second language for her....then as i listened longer she was studying for some type of exam....that involved strom thurmond and fractions....who knows what it was....i continued to read my books and mind my business....now, other than me and some guy across the cafe, no one else was sitting there....

a woman walks in and decides she is going to sit down....now there is ALOT of room...lots of chairs...the woman decides to sit in the chair right next to me....and then she proceeds to pick her nose...and not just once....oh, no, she picks and picks and picks and picks....it was disgusting...i mean really, who does that? i am not even sure my nieces and nephew pick their noses like that....so, before i tossed my cookies, i packed up my books and left....

tuesday night our professor split us into two groups to do an acitvity....it was a about cutting student affairs...one side was for, one side was against....i was on the for side....we called ourselves HLU- heartless university....we outsourced residence life, counseling and health services; cut all student activities professionals; turned orientation over to admissions; cut mutlicultural student affairs, greek life, and parent programs; and reduced the disabilities staff...that's right at HLU as a student you will have complete control over your student activities, live in a DORM, go to an overpriced counselor and/or health service provider, and everyone will be a white, christian, male....it will be awesome!

the awesome part was my new mentee....she told the other side how it was....waged her finger and shook her head....she had our professor in tears from laughing so hard....it was really a fun activity....

so, three weeks in, two papers later, i think it's time for a winter break...i am glad albany agrees.