Dorm Meeting

College Life
1

<p>I move in tomorrow and at 5pm we have a floor meeting with the RAs…how long should I expect this to last?</p>

2

<p>Meetings will often last about 15 minutes, 20 max.</p>

3

<p>over summer ours was like a hour and we got to know everyone on our floor.</p>

<p>fall might have been 5 minutes, pretty much “here’s the rules, umm, yeah that’s it. have fun”</p>

4

<p>My first one had to be at least 30 minutes, where we went over all of the procedures and then everyone introduced themselves. I remember it beng the longest one of the year.</p>

5

<p>It won’t last long, but no one will really notice if you don’t show. You’ll meet people with or without introductions.</p>

6

<p>It depends how much your RA likes to hear themselves talk. It can be anywhere from 5 minutes when nobody cares if you don’t show to over an hour where you get Talked To if you don’t show.</p>

7

<p>my RA talked on and on in our last dorm meeting. she went off on a major tangent and it lasted for nearly two hours
meetings arent that bad i just wish she wouldnt talk so much and would go straight to the point -_-</p>

8

<p>Ours lasted an hour, and then we had an option to play a game to get to know everyone. Pretty much the whole freshman class in our dorm participated, and it was very fun. The game was sardines.</p>

9

<p>It seems that depending on the class (freshman, sophomore, junior, etc.) makeup of the floor dictates how long a meeting lasts (at least in my experience). Freshman/sophomore meetings tend to last longer than junior/sophomore floor meetings for obvious reasons.</p>

<p>After my freshman year, I stopped attending meetings all together.</p>

10

<p>Ugh…I have to go to a whole thing called “First Day” which is from 10-11:30 AM, then there’s a mandatory bbq after that. <em>sigh</em></p>

11

<p>*junior/senior</p>

<p>I don’t know why I wrote “junior/sophomore”</p>

12

<p>Our dorm meetings never lasted more than 20 minutes. Our RAs wanted us in and out.</p>

13

<p>a half hour max…unless your RA is an egomaniac who likes to hear themselves talk, they don’t really want to be there any more than you do.</p>