My life at college

The life of an R.A can be very stressful and sometimes you feel like you have no time to yourself. The beginning of the fall semester of 2013 is when I took the duty of being this full time on duty counselor and its very challenging. At the beginning of the semester I was very excited and could not wait to step on campus as someone important. I move in two weeks before everyone else and start training that tool two weeks. In the back of my mind I’m thinking if it only takes two weeks to become this awesome person then this should be easy but little did I know this would take a whole semester of learning s and growing. Two weeks had gone by and the residents started to move in and my body became filled with nerves but I had a little bird in my ear telling me you can do it Jannell.  Once they moved in I went upstairs to introduce myself and I wanted to look as confident as I could. So I began to walk down the hall like a big body like I knew I was important but only if they knew how I really felt. The first couple of days went smooth but when school started that’s when the issues started to occur and the floor that I was in charge of was basically filled with girls so that speaks for itself. After the first couple of weeks I began to see my residents in a different light and not just as humans. Started to get a bond with them that I was too sure of but I wanted them to like so I just went along with it. That person that I was in the first day when they moved I was sure if I still was that same person. After a while lines was cross that I wasn’t sure about and they didn’t look at me as authority figure but as a friend and I wasn’t too sure about the relationship that was forming with my residents. Now the first semester has went by and I think I’m way to comfortable with them because they are sharing things with that I don’t know if I’m even supposed to know about . With being an R.A. it takes a lot of work and dedication because you are always on duty and you never have really that me time that you want to. You also have to juggle with being a full time student as well and dealing with your personal life as well. I think I do and ok job with   the two. At times I feel tired and I don’t know how helpful I am at times. My residents always tell me I’m awesome and that makes my day. Its little things like that, which makes the job worth doing. From this experience I have learned a lot about people that I thought would never learn. I gain so many friends and even though it seems tough I love being a R.A.