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"A Day in the Life of a Resident Assistant"
Resident Assistants have a variety of demands placed on them by different areas of their lives. Please rank the order in which you would handle these situations. Your group will have 15 minutes to work on this exercise and 5 minutes to present your group rankings. We suggest you use 2-3 minutes to do your own ranking and then begin the group ranking. Please choose one person to present your final group ranking to the facilitator.
Individual/Group Ranking
______/______ · You are on-call from 8-11pm
______/______ · A concerned friend suspects that her neighbor has an eating disorder; she reports the smell of vomit in their bathroom.
______/______ · You hear loud music coming from a resident's room.
______/______ · A resident leaves you a voicemail saying that they never see you anymore and invited you to dinner. (You have been feeling guilty about not spending time with your residents).
______/______ · A message from your Director asking for an incident report that you have not yet completed.
______/______ · A note under your door from a resident who "needs to talk."
______/______ · One of your residents' rooms does not have heat and it's 20
degrees outside.
______/______ · The smell of marijuana is coming from a resident's room.
______/______ · Your student organization meeting is from 7-8 tonight.
______/______ · You have an organic chemistry exam tomorrow for which you
must study.
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