Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Typically, there were several students yesterday asking for last minute enrollment signatures. Mostly they showed up for the school directors, but since they were in an operations council meeting, that meant either waiting hopefully when they emerged between rooms during their breaks, or being passed on to the other advisers present, namely me.

Here are people who don't show up for enrollment or advising on the dates and times scheduled, and when they do show up at their own convenience, they want you to attend to them immediately, even if you have something more important set for the day.

It was also a disconcerting start for the first activity of the new student leaders for their "constituents" when they said several times during the past few days that we all were supposed to show up at 7am, an hour before the start of the freshmen orientation, when there were only two students there when I showed up.

And I'm supposed to appreciate it when someone chronically late shows up at 745am?

Too bad there really isn't any file about how the previous batches did their work, because otherwise they're just repeating a lot of the past mistakes made in organizing. I still have to find a handle of just how hands-on or micro-managing I should be.

I also have the apprehension that people will not see the good aspects of what is being accomplished that when it becomes time to pass things off to the successor, there will be no legacy, and people will do things all over again from scratch.

It may be part pride in their own work, but it should not be wholly pride to the exclusion of needing to learn from others.

That's why the line between having too many procedures and freehanding the whole thing has to be toed, and very carefully.

Session 2173 really only wants to make everyone's lives better, even anonymously. Class dismissed.