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[kismet09]

It's weird. Today a student came in, and my immediate reaction was frustration about his disrupting my administrative work. In this job, it should be the other way around -- I should want to see students a lot more than I want to be doing the administrivia, but I like the paperwork and the crunching numbers and the getting things organized. Maybe I should job search Registrar-type positions the next time I move, so I can play with paper more often than I see students. Mostly I don't feel like taking responsibility for messing up these students, and I feel like the amount of energy that I feel like putting into talking to them is lower than it's supposed to be right now. I hope that this feeling goes away before next week, because I start doing Orientation advising with incoming frosh, and I really want to be supportive for them and all. It's just so frustrating - they've upped the entering class size and the entering transfer group, but they've cut budgets so I have not enough sections to accomodate nearly this many students. I have 500 incoming majors in Biology, Biochemistry and Pre-Med (which isn't even a major, which is also very frustrating since the school markets it as if it is), and about 200 seats in intro biology, and 150 in intro chem that I don't even have any control over, which means I can't give them to the people who really need them. Maybe I just want to be back at my nice little private school that had plenty of money and supported all of its students in ways much more apparent to me than they are here. Enough ranting. Back to work.