Fun on the Job

• RA Heaven

  The RA stood and faced his GOD, which must always come to pass.

• Getting to Know Residents on a Personal Level

  As any Resident Assistant can testify, being a RA can be quite stressful at times. Between studying for class, doing programs, and dealing with everyday situations in a residence hall, it is important for Resident Assistants to find ways to have fun. The way I have fun on my job is to get to know

• Name That Tune

  Whenever I got bored at work, my co-worker and I would play name that song. We would set our radio station to the oldies and try to guess whatever song was playing. It was really fun to guess the song. Submitted by Sheldon Fujiwara, Resident Assistant, University of Hawaii at Hilo

• Movie Night

  As an RA at the University of West Alabama we have to work the lobby on many weekends out of the semester. As you can probably imagine, they are long and boring. We also have a certain amount of socials due per semester. What I do for fun on the job is have a movie

• Building Relationships Beyond the Job

  Having fun at work is important; because if you enjoy your job, it will help you do the job better. For fun at work, the first thing is to be close with the other employees, including your managers. I am friends with the entire staff, and that already makes work fun. I come to work,

• Late Night Fun with Army Men

  To have fun in the workplace…you must be creative and be able to work on a tight budget. Knowing these things, I made a trip to the dollar store for ideas. At the dollar store I found the ultimate toy…little plastic army men. There were army men, firefighters, and police officers. These were only fifty

• Theme Duty Nights

  Our staff in Wheeler Hall does something that is pretty fun and innovative to make this job more interesting. On Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays we have two RA’s on duty together. On those nights the RA’s come up with themes for the duty night. Then, depending on the theme, the RA’s will dress up and

• The Bugsy Social

  The RAs in the LBLC area are pretty interesting characters, but we all have one thing in common: we are way too busy! Between schoolwork, RA responsibilities, and other random tasks, we barely have time to see each other outside of staff meetings. As a result, the LBLC RAs instituted a “Bugsy Social”. During this

• Obstacle Courses and Putt Putt with a Twist

  I am an RA at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA. I am a Senior now and this is my second year being an RA to the freshmen women of Baldwin Hall. I have two good stories for you! Obstacle Courses Last year, on the last day of RA training the whole staff went to a

• Craft Night

  In the spring semester of 2002, at La Salle University, the community development staff began “craft night”. Each month someone volunteers to host craft night. They choose the craft and then organize the night. They let everyone know what the craft will be and what night it will be, then get RSVPs. Once they have

• Flashlight Tag

  I’m an RA at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. We were back to campus early for training before spring semester 2002, and it snowing hard outside. Everyone on staff was pretty much bored as we could not go anywhere because of the snow that was coming down that evening. So we decided to play “FLASHLIGHT TAG“.

• Soup Can Awards

  For great fun in the office, a past staff member at Temple University named Chris Knoth, creatively originated the soup can award. Made from plastic super action figures and other items glued on the top of a soup can, the awards are spray painted gold or bronze. The creative label that is glued to the

• End of the Semester Banquets

  I’m a Community Assistant at Cardinal Village on the campus of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. At the end of each semester, we have a CA Banquet that allows the entire staff to get together and recognize each CA’s contributions to the team. The banquet is “catered” by the professional staff (General Manager, Asst. General

• Camping for a Night

  At The University of Akron in NE Ohio, we get other RAs from other buildings on our campus to sub for us and go camping for a night. We only go one building at a time, if any of the other buildings want to go. We have a staff of 15 people and we do