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Enjoying My Final Days
As I said I would, I have been working a lot lately on all my projects. It's been really great because the work load is slowly but surely dwindling down. I spent nearly all of my Sunday and a majority of my Monday wrapping up some projects. Saturday though I didn't get to do any work because I had work all day with the Orientation Office.
This summer I'm going to be an Orientation Program Assistant (OPA) at JMU. Orientation at JMU is something unique that you really don't find at many campuses around this country. The Orientation Office here really cares about giving incoming first year students the best possible opportunity to have one of the most amazing experiences of their lives. There are so many programs which the first years go to, that by the time the start their school year here most First
Years aren't that anxious.
As an OPA I am going to be here all summer working Summer Springboard, a program to help incoming students and parents answer questions and register for classes. I am really looking forward to this because I am going to be working with a team of OPAs, who I consider to be some of the most amazing people on the JMU campus.
2005 Orientation Team - click to enlarge
Everybody's attitude is to just serve the incoming Freshman, and this is an attitude you'd find rare at other campuses. I've come to learn that at a lot of other schools the students are just put on campus and expected to adjust. With our orientation though we make it more of a transition, that I personally am so grateful I got to experience. I met some of my best friends through Orientation, and I know I was a lot less nervous coming into my first week of school after I was able to go to a discussion with a professor that was organized by Orientation.
I've been working with Orientation since February already, reading applications, and conducting interviews for First yeaR Orientation Guides (FROGs), who work with the Freshman right before the semester begins. This Saturday we held a training session for all the FROGs, going over a lot of the plans of what they will be expected to do come the Fall Semester, and just some team building. The day was incredible, we just basically sang the fight song all day and reinforced my appreciation for this school and its spirit.
But honestly my fun didn't stop with just this weekend. Last night I went to UVA and got to see the comedian Dane Cook. It turned out though that he was only 1 of 3 comedians on that night, and all of them actually turned out to be extremely funny. By the end of the night my stomach and face hurt so much from laughing. Even though I still have to finish up a lab report, I'm so glad I went. Besides I made sure I had more than half done before I went. So finishing it up should be no problem.
Well that was a little recap I had on my weekend. And now after this brief detour I'm going to get back to finishing up my lab reports. Have a great day.
Posted by Simeon on April 26, 2005 02:06 PM | Link | Email Simeon
