Barauskas - Week 2 - Politics!

I've learned through this experience that politics is more prevalent than I previously thought. This may be due to the fact that MUW is much smaller and it's easier to notice these types of things, regardless this is something that I am not used to. I am used to hearing about the politics but never actually being involved in them, and to be honest it makes me uncomfortable. During my last post, I explained that after the meeting between Admissions, Student Life, and myself, we had a meeting with just the Student Life professionals to discuss how things went with the meeting. I didn't think that was too out of the ordinary, but then my colleague and I met with Admissions again today in order to clarify some things and after the meeting, my colleague felt the need to discuss how that meeting went. It was similar to what happened after our initial meeting. I'm unsure if that is part of the culture at MUW or if it just happens to be the people that are involved. I suppose the counselor in me was absent during those times, but I didn't feel the need to discuss how we felt about the meeting after it happened.

I have also dealt with difficulty with this same colleague that I am also doing this presentation with during Orientation. The initial presentation that I developed was cut from Orientation, because it was 'redundant' and Admissions was looking for us to provide more activities as opposed to a presentation. My partner couldn't seem to let go of the presentation that I developed. Personally, I was frustrated with the fact that it was let go, but I got past that and started to focus on what we needed to do. He was extremely resistant to forget about the presentation and do what was asked of us.

After the meeting that we had, we've decided to take a different direction with our time-slot, and facilitate a series of icebreakers. I'm excited for this new direction, and to have a much more clear understanding of where to go from here. The last two Orientations are this coming Friday and then Monday, I'm sure I'll have much more to update on after that point!