Greetings from 3A! is the first post of Robin's college blog. It was posted, with the rest of the blog, in February 2009.
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Summary: Robin introduces herself to her dorm, describing her role as RA and encouraging her peers to reach out if they need anything.
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Robin in her dorm.
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Hey there all my Grizzlies in the Port Dorm, I am Robin, your friendly Resident Advisor in 3A. A quick bit about me: I’m a Senior, an Online Communications Major (which is basically a fancy way of saying I’m majoring in the Internet), this is my third year as a RA and I rarely yell, so please don’t be afraid to come to me with any problems you are having. My door is always open, even when it’s closed.
When I was an RA in the Pioneer Dorm last year I got the sense that people didn’t really know how to talk to me. Me being an RA they always expected I was going to bust them for having someone in their room, write them up for having their music too loud, or that I was just a generally scary person. Which just isn’t true. You can keep your music as loud as you’d like!
I figured that if I started this blog, gave you guys a peak into what goes on in the mind of an RA, you wouldn’t be so weird around me (plus, I get course credit for blogging. Bonus!). After all, I’m a college student, too. I’m on scholarship here, and this RA job is a condition of that scholarship. We have the same workload, same pressures, and same concerns. We even share one big thing in common: we’re both worried about YOU.
It’s Summer Session, there are not a lot of us in this dorm, so let’s all try to be friends. Please feel free to comment, too!
Robin
P.S. Oh, and I was just kidding before, keep your music down.
Trivia[]
- Robin's distaste of loud music is the first chronological indicator of her distaste for the raucous college lifestyle, which becomes a common thread throughout the WPU blog.
- The original text of the post had a winking emojicon after Robin's postscript.
- The photo of Robin attached to this post was also the browser icon for the WPU blog.
- Two of the post's six comments are from users named "Randy". The first, posted at the blog's launch in February (and presumed in-universe to date from shortly after the post) is followed by another "Randy (as of ThatFreakin)", who is meant to have posted shortly after Robin's arrival on the island. He acknowledges that Robin already has a friend named Randy, confirming he is ThatFreakinRandy from HarpersGlobe.com.