Journal created:
on 20 August 2003 (#1270050)
Updated:
on 10 August 2011
Name:
Resident Assistants rock the core!
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
About this Community
This community is for anyone who is presently working with the Office of Residence Life at their college/univerisity. It was created as a gathering place for Resident Assistants/Resident Advisors across the world to come together to share experiences, advice, and everything else that goes along with the job.
Posting Rules
Off topic posts would include (but not limited to):
- What I ate for lunch
- What my day was like
- Quiz results
- Surveys
- posting of links/other sites that have nothing to do with reslife/RAs
- other LJ communities promos
On topic posts would include (but not limited to)
- Duty
- Programming
- Community building
- Incidents (including how you handled them)
- Bulletin Boards/Door Tags
- Your Residents
- OHRL
- Frustrations about the job
- RA Humor
When posting in this community, please be careful mentioning specific locations of your college/university and names of students. As RAs we are constantly in the public eye. We are bound by confidentiality in our contracts. Please keep this in mind while having fun in this community at the same time.
Also, every RA has their own ethics towards their job. For example, one RA may believe if they see something that's not right and if they're not on duty, they don't have to take care of it; or you are an RA and you are 21 and you subject yourself to a party where other residents are there who are under 21. Rules, policies and procedures differ from school to school!
MOST OF ALL, have fun! RAs are pretty special people. Know that our rewards from being an RA comes from fleeting moments that lasts maybe seconds long, but that it's all worth it, and that you're not alone. Bitch or gloat, this community is here for support!
