Open Mic Night

"Good leaders grow people, bad leaders stunt them; good leaders serve their followers, bad leaders enslave them."

Sir Adrian Cadbury





Today was yet another amazing day. I had my usual morning meetings, lunch, and coffee break conversation, but after all of that I got to have my first one on one meeting with one of my staff members. I was rather nervous about this since I have not had a one on one supervisory meeting in my role as an Assistant Resident Director before. However once the meeting began, it came very naturally. We spent the majority of the time feeling each other out, e.g. communication styles, conflict resolution, etc. In our conversation I also began to notice a lot of characteristics of student development that I learned in my Student Development Theory Class. For instance, this student clearly demonstrated one of Perry's Stages of Intellectual and Moral Development (D). My student's comments regarding the role of (me) the authority and the opinions of peer's was really illuminating. I think that I will have a lot of fun working with this student over the next few weeks. I will continue to have one on one's with my other staff members for the rest of the summer, so I hope I will continue to be able to apply what I learned in class in my practice.



Since it is a Tuesday, two of our RA's hosted another Tuesday Night Social. The program this week was an open mic night. I was interested to see how the event would play out, because to be honest I didn't know how receptive the residents would be to performing in front of a crowd...or if a crowd would come to see people perform. As the video below shows, it was a HUGE success. Not only did a number of people perform, but the common room was packed...and the RA's did a GREAT job in facilitating the event. My co-intern and I even worked up the nerve to perform "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks...go figure right? Below, I've attached a compilation of the performances of the night (sorry, I couldn't help but sing along in the background...)