When I started at Auburn last May, I was promptly informed that I had a new name. One of Camp War Eagle's Head Camp Counselors was named Chris, so to avoid confusion, I became "Landry." Apparently, they voted and I lost. It actually wasn't terrible and I came to like it since it was a definite change from the nickname I've had since 1999...
This morning, I visited Peak Preparatory to meet my new supervisor, get acclimated with campus and make sure that everything is in order for my official start date. After a very productive meeting with Teresa, we had Thai for lunch with one of the other administrators. Lo and behold, his name is Chris, and they'd already voted. I lost again...
Despite the craziness of the last few weeks (really months) today has been a complete success for me. I started unofficially working today on some special projects to get me ready for July 19th. I also set up my apartment; it's in a great location and is pretty roomy.
To end this post, I want to continue looking forward and provide some goals that I have for this position:
- develop a better understanding of secondary education to better serve me in higher education (basically- where are students coming from before they start college)
- create a better system of information distribution to pass on to my successor
- continue to expand my professional network with NODA and beyond
- save a bit of money to be able to travel more and see my friends that have moved away
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