Saturday, March 21, 2009

Residence Assistant

3 Letters
So as a lot of you all know, i applied to be a RA for my sophomore year. Well, here's the progress:
on February 2, i received a letter from the Office of Residence Life letting me know when my first round interview was, Sunday, February 8th 3:00 PM. They asked that i arrived 10 minutes early in order to check in for my 40 minute interview conducted by two RAs and one RHD, and of course to let me know to dress business casual.

At 3 o'clock that Sunday i showed up at north hall 10 minutes early and sat amongst a good twenty other applicants and waited to be called upstairs. A little after 3 my name was called and i followed a RA up the stairs to a conference room and the interview started. i was nervous and could feel the sweat on my side. All that happened was the two RAs asked me questions while they and the RHD took notes on my answers. After the first few questions, i started to loosen up and throughout the rest of the time i continued to become comfortable. It was over in what seemed like 20 minutes, i'm not sure of the time, and i walked downstairs to the desk where they told me i could return on wednesday at 10 to pick up my letter that would let me know if i had gotten a second round interview.

For the next 3 days i couldn't help but think of how i did and what Res Life thought of me and the other 250 or more applicants for the 55 spots. i was at north hall at 9:55 on wednesday morning. Five minutes later it was time to find out how i did. i went in and straight up to the front desk. i told them my name and they handed me my letter and i opened it outside and read:

"Dear Greg,

On behalf of the RA Selection Committee, I would like to thank you for the time and effort you have put into the application and interview process. We had a large number of applications submitted and the applicant pool was extremely competitive with many qualified individuals. At this point, we would like to invite you to a second round interview."

I was so scarred when i read "thank you for the time and effort" and "we had a large number of applications submitted" so i couldn't believe it when i actually saw that i got an interview!

So as you can expect this crowded my thoughts for a few days and the day finally came and i showed up on the next Sunday, this time at 1, ready for a two hour group interview. When our group was called up, we were brought to the same conference room i had been to the first time and saw 3 RHDs and only 1 RA. It was explained that we were supposed to make a mock commercial for Residence Life in about 15 minutes and then perform for the RHDs. we were assured that we would not be judged on our capabilities to act but that they wanted to see how we acted as individuals in a group. we came up with some funny but informational ideas and performed just fine. My brain was buzzing the whole time wondering if i was leading enough or laying back and allowing others to lead enough. But soon that was over and our second task was explained. We were given a situation that would be the absolute worst weekend for an RA. In the scenario we would be coming back from a couple days vacation and were met with multiple resident problems i.e. drinking, safety issues, possible suicide, and then my own problems like a project due soon, family problems, RA reports due, and a bathroom full of clogged toilets. Our job was to rank these problems in order of importance, first by ourselves and then come together and agree on one single order. this was harder because none of us wanted to be overpowering and make all the decisions but also not be a push-over. After this, the interview was over and we were all told that we could pick up a letter saying if we either got the job, were rejected, or got on a waiting list, in three weeks on March 5th after 10 AM.

Those were the slowest three weeks of school in the world.

But on March 5th, i was there at 10 AM and received my letter. i walked outside and stopped to open my letter.

Dear Gregory,

On behalf of the R.A. Selection Committee, I am pleased to be able to offer you a Spring Selection Alternate for the 2009-2010 Resident Assistant Position."

it continued on, but i was confused with my feelings. i was disappointed because i wanted to know either yes or no right away and i got a maybe, also i had seen a girl in my group who i thought didn't do that well and i saw that she got accepted right then. gosh, this was not what i expected. but then i started to think and over the next few days it became clear that i did a good job and would probably become an RA. a few of my friends had applied and not even gotten a second round interview, a lot of others had gotten rejected. i was happy with my letter and got even more excited after talking with my RA and a few other RAs. i told them i got an alternate position and they told me that last year they used up all the alternates and had to hire more people, so i have a very good chance at getting a call from Res Life anytime now. PRAISE GOD!!

so here i am now. waiting. praying. and trying not to think about it too much. that's all that's happened, i hope you liked it!! i'll hopefully see some of you soon! summer is in what...5-6 weeks? that'll go by quick enough. love you all!

Saturday, January 17, 2009


The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I saw this movie finally, and even though i had heard rumors such as "be prepared to sit for a long time," or "wear comfortable clothes and don't go there tired," i found it not long at all. After checking the time after the movie i found out that it was a good 2 hours and 50 minutes! I guess i'd have to say that this is one of my favorite movies i've seen yet. i don't think i could just go and watch it again or buy it so i can have people over and see it, i think that maybe a favorite movie or favorite anything for that matter is not one that you watch over and over, but one that makes you think and feel for the characters. 
well, i don't think i can describe exactly how i felt, so you should really go and see this one. it's worth the money i think. (our theater in town is only $6.50 with student id!) 

Oh! and i also finally found a good snowboard at a great price on craigslist!! it's a M3 board in good shape and just my size. i also am getting free bindings and good boots for cheap as well! i'm stoked cause it is usually really expensive and i'm getting hooked up! here are some pictures of my new board.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

THE FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON!!

IT SNOWED ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, November 3, 2008

  hello! wow, i've been busy! it's so nice to finally have a week where a paper's not due, or i have an exam to study for. wait... this week is not empty, rather full actually, but i haven't blogged in a while so here i am. 
well, what's happened since it was freezing cold?!?! umm... i guess i'll start with the weather. it warmed up a lot right after the cold, and it felt very nice to be warm, even sometimes too warm. the weather was about the same until yesterday afternoon when it rained and there was a huge rainbow across the sky. now i guess it's starting to get colder. i looked online for the weather and saw that it on wednesday the low is 19 so i guess it's time to wear warmer clothes again. oh, also we had our second playoff game for racquetball and lost, so we're really bummed, but we still play around for fun. THANKSGIVING is almost here!!! i can't wait! andy is going to drive up from tucson on the wed. before and spend the night in my dorm room, then on thanksgiving morning we will drive down to sedona to visit the morris family and spend the whole day and night there! it'll be nice to have a family time and catch up with our old family friends. the next day we'll come back to flagstaff and spend the night in my room again then andy will head back down to U of A sometime saturday. i'm so pumped to see him, hang out, show him my school, and play guitar. i haven't seen him since my high school graduation.
ok, so halloween was a BLAST. alissa, hillary, colton, his friend joey, stephanie, and i dressed up as a baby, a cat, a mormon, a chic-magnet, a mom with an apron and a cookie sheet, and a robot. it was so much fun! we went to our good friend phil's house for a dance party, and then us six went to "the place", this fun breakfast joint that is open late.
well, that's it for now. i've been missing my family so much. i can't wait to see them all for christmas!!! sorry i can't see you trav fugler. love you all!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

FREEZER!!!


sorry about not having my song up! it's freaking out right now and won't let me upload it yet. i'll keep trying. K, enough about that. today was SOO cold! it's 6:41 right now and normally at home i would look at the thermostat and see a warm 74 degrees, but noooo not here! it's 39 degrees!!!! it says "high 52, low 22" for today. i need to start dressing warmer. it's not going to warm up. "good-bye warm weather! i'll see you later!"

p.s. i now completely disagree with global warming. :)

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

hello. tuesdays are probably my favorite day of the school-week. this is because i have 3 hours of class, and it's all science (my subject of choice). today was really good because i really only had one and a half hours of class. here's my day: i had my biology midterm from 9:35 to 10:20, then i had breakfast at the hot spot which was: one pancake, scrambled eggs, milk, and a biscuit with gravy. even though it was cafeteria food, it was just what i wanted. then i went back to my room, and relaxed for a few minutes, skateboarded to chemistry which was only thirty minutes because our professor said we were ahead of all the other classes and all we were doing today was doing a worksheet. so i sat there, finished it, checked it with the key, and left! oh, and also, my bio recitation class was cancelled because we took an exam, so i'm done for today!! this day is awesome! 

So, now i've been in my room for a while, cleaning and thinking and playing guitar, and i made up a song. it doesn't have any words and is short, but i just love putting chords together. so i recorded it for you to hear. hope you like!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

football too!


oh... also i'm playing intramural football. we had a game today in the skydome!! it was so awesome. we lost 14-9, but later found out the referee's made some bogus calls and most of the real team wasn't there and they had some really good guys illegally substitute. so i guess we're pretty good. we'll see how the rest of the season goes though.