Faces and Names

I attended the new student orientation on Friday! Squee! I met the people who will comprise my Technical Writing class-- 12 males and 1 female-- students in the technology program. I am happy to report that they look like a good bunch. No one really stood out as a potential problem.

Actually, I was hanging around the room where they all congregated at first to fill out paperwork and listen to administration people talk to them about the school. It was 10:26 and orientation started at 10. A girl was escorted into the room by one of the admissions people. Another teacher from my program leaned over to me and said, "I bet you she's one of ours."

He was right. So, so far, that's my only potential for trouble.

Later, the whole of the winter-start class was broken into majors and sent to classrooms to listen to the individual program directors speak, to get the rules and such for the individual majors. I sat in on that portion too and actually got to meet and interact with some of my students! Squee!

Program Director was really selling my class, telling them that the local employers really want our students to have more "soft skills"- better communication skills, better people skills. They seemed to be excited.

Squee!