Slept with the window open last night and woke up pleasantly cold. This weekend will be unusual; about 1/3, maybe more, of the participants are from North Carolina, and they all plan on going home for the weekend. I would do that too - can't blame them, but the tenor of this place will definitely change. It'll be a good time to catch up on reading, laundry, maybe looking around town.
I'm off the breakfast, hungrier than usual. It was probably last night's cool air. Should be a short day; I believe we end at lunch. Sometimes they have optional things afterwards, and I've gone to all of them so far. I'm not much of a joiner, per se, but I think you kinda have to take a place like this "as is," and just go along with it the way they designed it.
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ReplyDeleteI'll look around, but right now it's a little after noon, sunny, and sixty-eight degrees. Not much to complain about...
ReplyDeleteI've thought more about the student satisfaction, and here's what I have so far (with my extensive one week's experience): the campus is beautiful, the food is good, the city is safe and pedestrian friendly, and the staff at the college are pretty polite. I say thins because I've really only had a few bad experiences here customer service-wise. They really bugged me, but they were the exception, not the rule. The cafeteria people are nice, the receptionists are pretty nice and on top of things, and it's a fairly laid-back place. Rude people and people who "phone it in" at colleges are just anathema to a pleasant experience.
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