A day in the life of me!

This past week student drama reached a new peak, but looks like it is on the mend, well fingers crossed anyway! I can't even begin to share how much bandwidth this took from staff in the past week, but we all made it through and settled details for the new year. Life lesson of the week, don't walk 6 miles in converse as I can proudly boast quite a few blisters across both my feet. So with that here is to a shorter post and all of my greatest wishes for a sweet new year and the patience to learn and grow!

 Hi there! I know it's been more than a week but life happens and I am happy and busy, so all good things.  Since my last update, I have gotten to take on more responsibilities regarding the engagement interns, which has been really nice as I get more of my grounding. I will say though that I thought I was prepared for a lot of student reasons for cancelling or changing meetings but "is it safe to walk in a thunderstorm?" did not make that list. Suffice it to say, we hosted a mostly successful hybrid meeting.  Outside of meetings, there are a lot of chats with students over walks, iced teas & coffees, stickers and fidgets! There are a lot of idle chit chat and feelings, but I am growing some good connections and 90% of the complaints I have received are very easy to act on.  Beyond the usual responsibilities, my students are starting to put on programming-this past week we had friendship bracelet making- and we are prepping for the high holidays and alumni weeken...

This past Friday marked a month of working at Muhlenberg which is so crazy! This week has been a busy week but a ton of student interaction, which is kind of the perfect mix of overwhelming since I don't know any of them and reassuring because it's affirming that I do like this line of work.  In the span of every two weeks, I interact with ... - a team of 13 engagement interns and aid in compiling their training materials - the social co-chairs, who as their name suggest plan about 1/3rd of the total programming for Hillel - the outreach co-chairs are responsible for hosting events that draw in first years and communities that don't often come to Hillel. This position has a complicated history and so it might be discontinued after this semester.  - the Hillel staff team and partner offices - the Hillel Student Board and their committee meeting - any student that wants to hang out and/or wants a free coffee/snack Outside of work, I have just been going on walks, FaceTiming w...