Vincent's Blog

For those of you who guessed Jenny, you are correct. If you guessed wrong it is still ok. Jenny’s office is the lobby of the Admissions Office where she serves as a secretary. Jenny said her main job includes coordinating campus tours, helping people with general campus knowledge, and greeting people. For many visitors that come to Austin Peay for the first time for a campus tour, or other reasons Jenny is usually the first person you see. She is always sitting at her desk with a smile on her face waiting and willing to help any and everybody that comes through Ellington. Jenny graduated from Austin Peay in 2007; while attending Austin Peay she majored in English. She is also happily married.

Stayed tuned for Guess Who, pt. 2 where I put the spotlight on someone else from the Office of Admissions.

I have been bored lately, and usually when I am bored I love to read or play my Xbox 360. Recently I thought of a new blog and/or game that readers will hopefully enjoy. I am in the Admissions office twice a week and there are many people that work in the office that I do not know. I figured if I did not know them, then other people may not know them either. So my game I created is called “Guess Who in Admissions,” so let’s play the game. I will give hints of the person and you guys have to figure out who I am talking about. I know there are a lot of people in Admissions so I will try to give a word bank.

Hint 1:
You never catch this person with anything, but a smile on their face.

Hint 2:
All visitors start off and end their trip the same way.

Hint 3:
This person’s office is the biggest of them all.

Word Bank
Amy Deaton
Dawn Vanderlee
Jenny Nickerson
Della Dennis
Ryan Forsythe
Katie Brown

I am a Resident Hall Director (RHD) at Austin Peay State University on top of being a full time student and a Govs Ambassador. My life as a RHD is very interesting. I have a staff of 4 and at least 80 residents that I am responsible for. I am the RHD for Rawlins Hall. I am also the co-Chair for the Training Committee in Housing. The Training Committee is responsible for making training for Fall and Spring. Also, we are responsible for finding out the good and bad of training and improving it. I co-Chair the committee with my immediate supervisor, Leslie Barger. She is new to Austin Peay, but is not new to Housing. She comes from another rival University. She is a great boss and an even better listener.

Before becoming a RHD I was a RA in Hand Village, and I also sat duty nights in Rawlins and Cross when I had to. It used to be all male, but with the increase in students that want to live on campus the powers that be (my bosses) converted it to a coed hall. The first two floors are males and the third floor is females. It has been interesting with a lot of funny stories. I have a great staff and I am very proud to work with. My whole staff is new at our job including me except Danterius. I am a first year RHD and Ashley, Brian, and Colten are first time RA’s.

Meeting my Staff
Danterius (“D” or “Dan” nicknames that people call him) is our vet of the group. He has been a RA for a while (at least 2 or more years). He is great to our staff and he brings leadership and experience to help the first time RA’s. Also, he knows a lot of the residents that have been at Rawlins for a while. He also works at a movie theater. Unfortunately, D is graduating this year and will be moving on to bigger and better things. I wish him luck in the future.

Brian is another first time RA. He is a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He recently just started working at Texas Longhorn. Sidenote: they have great steaks. Brian brings a laid back and calmness to the Rawlins staff. He graduates this year and I also wish him luck in the future.

Colten is another first time RA. He brings a laid back, calmness and funny approach to the job. He has a great girlfriend who serves as a secretary for him sometimes. The secretary comment is a positive one because she helps him with paperwork. Sidenote: I have a secretary to. This is Colten’s first and last year in Housing. He is moving on to bigger and better things in life. I wish him the best.

Ashley is my only girl and is also a Govs Ambassador. She is also a member of the Chi Omega women’s sorority. It is weird sometimes because one minute I am her boss (supervisor, if you want to get technical) and the next I am working side by side with her in Govs as an equal. We have found that balance and it makes working with her fun and easy. She is also the cook. When we have bonding times and the RHD is suppose to cook for their staff, that responsibility gets handed over to Ashley in which she gladly accepts because she loves to cook. If you see the pictures so also made us shirts.

Shirt Story
If you work for Housing or live in Housing we have different names for each building. Rawlins has always been nicknamed, the Raw Dogs. The nickname is not meant to mean anything bad about the building or the people, it is something that was just picked up. That was a story before the story. Rawlins the staff decided to embrace that name, but we had to change it around because we could not be raw because we now had females in our hall. So I nicknamed us “Raw Puppies”. We have different events and competitions among the resident halls during training and we wanted to show our hall spirit, hence the idea of the shirts. We knew other halls would make shirts to so we had to go over and beyond so our shirts were the best. The final product is what you see in the pictures below.

Rawlins, he front of the shirts Ashley made.

Rawlins, the back of the shirt

Rawlins Staff in Brandon Springs

I had to register for my classes two weeks ago. Registering for classes is a big deal to students here at Austin Peay. When you register for classes it depends on how many hours a person has. The more hours a person has the earlier they can register for classes. People stay up extra late to register. In order to register for classes’ students must first find the classes that they need to take. Then, they must either set up an appointment to meet, or email their advisor so the advisor can help them and give them their pin number. The pin number is the only way you can register for classes. Registration opens up at 12:01 am. The best way to make sure you get the classes you want is to already have your course numbers (CRN). I am happy because I was able to get all the classes I wanted for Fall 09. I have two online classes, one Monday/Wednesday/Friday class at 1:25-2:20, and two Tuesday/Thursday classes at 9:35-11:00 and 11:10-12:35.

In my spare time, I like to go to Sally Allen’s office and talk with her. Sally is the Admissions Manager for Austin Peay, and she is also the advisor for Govs Ambassadors. There is usually a group of us in her office just talking about school, Admissions, and life. It is always a pleasure to talk to Sally because she is always smiling, and cracking jokes with us. I was really bored in her office one day so I started putting on her sunglasses and I had a photo shoot with my camera phone. I put on the black pair first, and then she found me a red pair of sunglasses that was her daughter’s. She was afraid that my head was going to stretch the sunglasses because my head is so big, but I did not care. This is the outcome of my photo shoot with Sally’s sunglasses. I was happy because Sally, Chelsea, and Hykeem got a laugh out of my photo shoot.