EDU 307 Free Write

Resident Assistant...known to SCSU as CC's (community Coordinators) or CA's (Community Advisors) don't just get free housing, we work for it. There are many responsibilities that CC's face everyday especially in a freshman / sophomore residence hall that aren't necessarily always seen. To better understand some of the questions residents ask or some of the things they do that all RA's, CC's or CA's encounter watch a short youtube clip from another university.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XA7_8_FvA

i can give you a different account-things residents say or do and think that their CC's won't find out or don't know:

-drinking in their room with loud music on-as if we don't know

-stealing things out of the common area, or bathroom.

-moving tables and couches in the common area into their bedrooms and claiming that "thats just a big pile of clothes" in their room covering it up.

-locking themselves out of their rooms and blaming their roommate

-"forgetting" their hootloot they needed to swipe into the building and somehow they "lost it last week" 

-choosing to not leave the building during a firedrill

-coloring on floor meeting signs hung on the CC's doors or walls

-vandalizing door tags

-ripping things off bulletin boards

-not showing up to mandatory floor meetings and saying they "didn't know we had one" oh? you didn't see the signs we put up ALL over the floor? 

-i "fear for my life, living with my roommate" 

-"if i get hit by a car in the crosswalk... i get free tuition

-"this building is a communist community" 

Most residents don't notice all the things we do to make the floor and building a welcoming, positive community. 

-monthly bulletin boards

-monthly door tags

-9 programs per semester, per CC or CA

and so much more.

the residents who do realize all that we do for the building, enjoy stopping by my room when my doors open or come to programs we put on for them. residents come and ask for help with homework or just talk to you about whats going on with their day. I love my job for the  wonderful hall director and CC staff i have and i also love my job for my residents-even the ones the cause issues or unnecessary floor/ building drama. It happens that there are times when my CC phone will ring at 4am and i have to wake up and respond to an incident and at that moment i'm not entirely too fond of my job or the residents causing the issues. However, at the end of the day-its all worth it.