A Little Rain Never Hurt Nobody

The last few days have been insanely busy, but a blast nonetheless.

Here's a recap:

Thursday Evening: I sat in on the College 101 evening activity. I spoke about Arcadia and life as a student at a small, liberal arts school. I told some funny stories and roommate horror stories. The  TIPsters surprisingly had solid questions for the 2 hours. When lights out came around, I put an RC's kids to bed. One TIPster gave me a free cream soda (in a glass bottle! =D). After lights out, I couldn't sleep, so I got Hush Puppies (99 cents at Cookout, which is dangerous...).

Triplet Day <3

Triplet Day for Spirit Week

Friday Morning: Our Admin meeting was moved to 9AM, but I didn't know. Whoopsies. I woke up and checked my phone at 9:15AM and sprinted over to the meeting. We discussed staff and student concerns with one another. After the Admin meeting, I met with my RHLs and RPA from 10-11AM to discuss term so far and what is next. From 11AM-12PM, I met with Res Staff to plan evening activities for next week and did duty scheduling. When planning evening activities, it was decided that I will be hosting 'Mystery Time' on Monday. Spoiler Alert: It is going to be IPhone-ography.
WOO!
At some point during the day, a student's relative dropped off a package and said that the student is loving TIP this summer. It was nice to hear that from a parent.
After lunch, I created a schedule for the staff about the weekend and organized the buses for FunOpolis. Whilst doing this, I was asked to walk a student to class and chatted about classes and activities. The student said they are having a blast. Go us!
In the evening, we took a student to the Emergency Room. (Our first one of the summer!) The student was shaking and couldn't feel their legs so we collectively decided that we should take them to the ER. Everything is alright now, but it was a bit scary in the moment. (The student was cool, calm, and collected and was even making jokes about the situation. Way to power through, kid!)
While the students played ultimate frisbee, I sat in the office and got some work done. I also started looking at Master's and Doctoral Programs in Higher Education and Student Affairs. It was a productive evening.
After lights out, my staff met to discuss highs and lows and the rest of the weekend. Once this meeting was over, I headed to my room for a bit before a few staff members and I went to Cookout. (Hush puppies yet again.)

Saturday: It was a pretty relaxed day. DAWGfest was a success aside from the torrential downpour

DAWGfest

Fred and Daphne take on the
Relive Your Childhood Dance

that caused it to end about an hour early. My quieter RHL was in charge of planning the entire event (with a committee of course) and made sure DAWGfest ran smoothly. I was incredibly impressed with how well everything ran and how much the TIPsters enjoyed the day. I had a blast keeping score and repping all of the teams. When the rain started, we let the students continue to participate in activities. At the first sign of thunder, everyone was immediately sent inside to the Piano Room. The sky seemed to have opened up and just poured everything it had in it down on us. A few RCs and I helped move the supplies to a dry area and then proceeded to get poured on while running into Myers.

The Gang and Scooby Doo

I love my staff!

When we realized the monsoon was not going to pass, we sent the TIPsters to their floors for On-Hall time. (It was mainly to make sure they showered because they smelled so bad and were covered in paint from DAWGfest.)
The dance committee headed to dinner around 4:45PM in hopes to get a head start on rearranging and decorating the fourth floor of the MLC. It was a pain in the ass to get it situated, but we managed to get it done (and done well!).
When the TIPsters arrived, they were excited to see the giant Game Boy decoration, the VHS, and boombox. The dance went really well, but there were more tears this week. Prom is going to be a flood.

Today started off very fast paced. When I got to the office, I had to make rosters of everyone on each bus, make sure the buses were arriving at the right time and in the right place, and make sure everyone was accounted for on each bus. Once everyone was sent to their respective buses, I was able
FunOpolis was a blast. I went on a tornado ride (FYI: two times in a row is not the best idea...), went on bumper cars, played DDR, went in a spider climbing thing (way harder than it sounds/looks), and went on a weird 4D roller coaster simulation (two times). The TIPsters were incredibly well behaved and I was so happy.

BUMPER CARS!

to pack up Thor (one of the SUVs) and head to FunOpolis!

When we got back to campus, the TIPsters got ready for TIPsync and dinner. I helped my RPA set up the space for TIPsync and was excited to learn I would be judging with a few AC staff members. Our OC decided to join in on the judging and we took on a persona together: confused admin members who never leave the office. We had a blast with the comments after each performance and got a few good laughs from the TIPsters. Aside from a few questionable acts, TIPsync was great.

I clearly love Bumper Cars.

At the end of the event, we announced to the TIPsters that they had fifteen minutes extra of free time. Instead of On-Hall time starting at 10PM, they had until 10:15PM. They were excited until they found out that lights out was still happening at 10:45PM. Womp.
Once 10:15PM hit, I went to a few of the RC Group meetings to discuss the borderline inappropriate acts. Two of the acts were a bit too sexual and a third was just incredibly bizarre and could've been taken the wrong way. (It was about carrots being people too, but the act could've been perceived as a slightly religious sermon the way it was executed.)
After I put some TIPsters to bed (as usual), I came out to the balcony to hang out with some of my staff members. Most of us are so over tired that everything has been pretty damn hilarious.

This upcoming week is going to be a whirlwind of emotions and chaos. I can't believe it is already Week 3. I'll try to blog throughout the week, but it might get pretty crazy here so no promises.