So Career Services and Student Affairs at the campus I work at moved to new buildings in May. Since we didn’t have enough time to hold a “come and figure out where we’ve hidden ourselves” event last quarter, we just had our official Open House today. I would say that, looking solely at the numbers, the event was pretty successful. We held the open house from 11:30am – 5:30pm, with 11:30-12:30 and 4:30-5:30 being the main times. Here’s what we found from the event:
- Students are much more interested in free food than any of the wonderful services we can offer them. A job? Psssh, just sign my form so that I can get pizza.
- The students feel that having to do any type of “work” to gain their pizza or other food is some type of crime on our part. (A kid actually said to me, “I just came over here for the pizza and now they’re making me fill all this stuff out.” In actuality, there was nothing for him to fill out – all he had to do was get four signatures from two departments that aren’t too far apart. Seriously, these kids would die on a real campus.)
- Very few are brave enough to do karaoke in public. And while I know I’m a better singer than the people who did karaoke, they are much braver than I am. I haven’t sung in public since……………a church play/skit thing when I was [let's say] five years old.
- If you start dancing in public, pervy students will start taking video of you on their phones to post on the internet. The dude was taking pictures/video of my coworker’s butt. She promptly confiscated the phone and deleted the files. The guy’s lucky that she didn’t dropkick him across the courtyard.
- Just because you held an Open House where the students had to physically visit your department to get entry into the raffle doesn’t at all mean that they’ll remember where you’re located if you call to inform them that they’ve won. Seriously. It was maybe an hour later when she called and the guy had no idea. [sigh]
