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Hi, all! For this blog post, I will be showing you an app that I designed to help RAs while on the job. This may end up being a shorter blog than the others, but I hope you stick around and see what I’ve created. What this app is meant to do is help RAsContinue reading “App for RAs with Links”

Funny things happen ALL the time in a dorm. Sometimes things happen between the RAs, sometimes they happen to just the residents and we find out, and sometimes funny things happen with RAs and residents. I know that no matter what, I’ll always remember these moments. The first thing I can remember is the PieContinue reading “Funny/Awkward Moments”

Have you ever walked around a dorm and seen all of the bulletin boards covered in butcher paper that are different shade of the rainbow? Those are called passives! Passives are usually bulletin boards filled with some type of information. The information we put up depends on what time of year it is. Beginning ofContinue reading “Residence hall decorations (aka “Passives”)”

Hey, there! This blog might be a little shorter than others since I’ll have a video on YouTube. Emergency Device Inspections (more commonly known as EDIs) are a thing that pairs of RAs do. Before COVID-19, we did EDIs once a month every semester. Now we’ve only done them once each semester. They aren’t aContinue reading “Emergency Device Inspections”

Hello! It’s been a minute since I’ve written something for you to k now about res life and RA life. What I’ll be talking to you about this time, as you can tell from the title, is events. Events as an RA can be a lot of fun since we get some type of creativeContinue reading “Events of Res Life”

When the COVID-19 pandemic first happened, I was going through some personal stuff (grandfather died, dog died, mom diagnosed with breast cancer). I was happy to have a two week spring break at the beginning. I desperately needed a break. How it went down for RAs was this: we got the email from the universityContinue reading “What it’s like to be an RA during a pandemic”

The snowstorm of 2021 was not one of my favorite memories as an RA. It was cold, scary, and I had no idea what I was going to do if I ended up without power for a long time. I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know what to do, though. My coworkers and IContinue reading “What it’s like to be an RA during a snowstorm”

Desk is a somewhat easy, somewhat difficult part of being an RA. The desk is where many things happen. One newer thing from the housing department is that every RA has to work either 6 or 8 hours, and this is more dependent on the size of each staff. If you have more RAs, youContinue reading “Duties of an RA: Part 2”

As an RA, you have to do these walks called rounds around your residence hall multiple times a night. It’s not an all-night thing; our three rounds have to be done within the time from 7pm-12am each weekday night (which is considered Sunday-Thursday), 7pm-2am each weekend night (which is Friday and Saturday), and two extraContinue reading “Duties of an RA: Part 1”

Because of COVID-19, I had to seriously reevaluate how many things I brought with me while living on campus. I made sure to only bring the essentials, but I also made sure to bring the things that made me feel at home. The things that help me feel at home are simple. I like toContinue reading “Making Yourself at Home”