Procrastination and Productivity

With next week be finals week at the University of Northern Iowa, I decided to take a nice study break to think about MACURH in more detail. I recently led my first President's Chat. It was exciting. I was really nervous thinking people were watching me, which is a tad bit ironic.It went fantastic, and this time I didn't end up in the minutes talking about bathroom issues. We talked about what was going on at our respective institutions and so many schools have great things going on. We also talked about how people are transitioning and some advice for transitioning. It was great to hear about what each school is doing to transition such as passing binders down, planning summer retreats, planning transitional meetings, and generally sharing tricks of the trade. 


As far RBD stuff. We had our first chat last night and talked about the Sustainability ad-hoc committee. We are getting feedback currently and will look into what is going on with the ad-hoc committee in the near future. We just gave updates of what we were all doing, and much like RHAs across the region we are working on transitioning as well. I had another phone call (and Skype chat when my phone died :( ) I learned a lot about sustainability initiatives and we talked about some of my goals for next year. I also have a few ideas for President's Boardroom that I'm really excited about. 


Other than that nothing too exciting going on in my life. I found out that my summer RA staff is living together for the first couple weeks of the summer. It will be weird, I haven't had a roommate in over a year so I'm coming up with rules for myself while I'm living with people. As soon as I figure them out I will make sure to let you know. I know one of them will be to limit use of permanent markers and hairspray, don't wanna make the suite too smelly. 


I also have been studying a lot, leading to the discovery that our library serves Caribou Coffee!!!! I absolutely love Caribou Coffee and it is my new favorite place on campus!! That and it is the one place that is open past midnight for studying right now. 


Well I am off to continue procrastinating writing an ending to a paper with a comedy show!  Enjoy your last week or weeks of classes everyone!! And good luck on finals! 


With MACURH love, 
Jill 

I should be studying... but MACURH is cooler!

So this post is going to be filled with everything that is blowing up my Facebook page right now: information about delegation meetings and finals.

First finals. Um, they're coming up so don't expect many posts, not that I have been posting a lot at this point anyway. I will be posting as much as possible, but we all understand how crazy this time of the year can be.

Second NACURH!! I am so excited for NACURH! We had another delegation meeting and I am really excited to be part of this amazing group and wish I would have more time to see them at conference. Other than that I have submitted a few NACURH U programs so I'm just waiting to see what gets accepted! I have been working with Jacob going over some transitioning information about the Sustainability Committee and working with Presidnets. I have also put together a binder and I'm starting to figure out my strategies for accomplishing my goals so I have a plan when going into this.

Other news from my life. My sister leaves for Hawaii on Saturday, so that's exciting. My grandparents live there and she's going to see them for Easter. I received a Gold Star Award at our NRHH banquet. A Gold Star award is for the top leaders in our Department of Residence that have gone above and beyond their call of duty. That was pretty emotional for me. On Thursday I hand the RHA reins over to Dusty and I'm taking my Exec Board out for Ice Cream afterwards. And on weather related news,  it rained, snowed, hailed, thunderstormed, sleeted and there was slush falling from the sky. And its kinda chilly, but it's Iowa and this is normal.

That's all I know and now back to finishing a paper on CEO compensation.

With MACURH love,
Jill  

Tales from the couch in the ladies room

[21:29] MacurhTech: Jill is in the bathroom.
 [21:29] MacurhTech: Ok we will now move into our discussion for tonight.
 [21:30] MacurhTech: Sustainability intiatives!
 [21:30] Jill_Hohnecker: x
[21:30] Tyler_Winona State_Pres: X
[21:30] MacurhTech: Jill
[21:31] Jill_Hohnecker: I move that me being in the restroom be stricken from the minutes
[21:31] MacurhTech: Is there any dissent?
 [21:31] Jill_Hohnecker: n
[21:31] Erica_Fontbonne University: N
[21:31] UIowaARHPres: Y
[21:31] Tyler_Winona State_Pres: n
[21:32] Jill_Hohnecker: motion withdrawn
 [21:32] MacurhTech: Thanks Jill.




Yes that is an actual copy of the transcript from tonight's President's chat. There was dissent, so it will be in the minutes forever. Thanks, Jacob. 

A long, but yet AMAZING weekend!

So this past weekend in Fargo, North Dakota, the RBD and RBD elect gathered to share ideas for the rest of this year and get the "newbies" ready for next year. After the car ride up there (all 10 hours of it) we had a little bit of a break while we waited for everyone else to get it. We had a quick campus tour because Becky was in a banquet. We got to see many of the halls on campus as well as some of their classrooms, definitely nap-worthy rooms! They were some really comfy chairs especially compared to the nice wooden chair I am sitting on currently in the library at UNI. We had a great dinner at a local Mexican restaurant and got to know each other better. The night concluded with a hilarious dancing game on the Kinect. It was my first time playing and I thought I did relatively well (thankfully there is no video to prove me wrong). 


The next morning was full of fun meeting time, and a great breakfast. We began by discussing what current RBD members are doing. Then we moved to the MACURH assessment. That had many great opinions and suggestions for next year and I'm excited to begin working on some of the ideas through that. The biggest thing that I took away from it was just trying to get to know as many people as possible. I know I won't be able to connect with everyone, but I want to make sure people feel comfortable coming to me with  anything. 


We then went over a general timeline of what needs to get done throughout the next year. I realized that as soon as bids are ready to be posted that I am going to be ridiculously busy, but I am so excited for it. Jacob and I then went over the website and I was even able to make some updates!! I still have a lot to learn and lot of updates that I want to make to the website to make it more user friendly, but baby steps right?


The RBD elect talked about goals and expectations for the next year and played a pretty intense game of hangman. This was followed by lunch and the rest of the afternoon we talked about current legislation and NACURH U programs for NACURH (which is 50 days away!!!!). We also had a great dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. I asked for a playmaker and as a team we got first place in trivia for one of the games!!! GO MACURH!!!!


We finished our evening off talking about the committees and a few last minute details before the midnight business cutoff. After a few short hours of sleep, it was time to head out in the morning. The trip back itself is worth a separate blog post, so be on the lookout for that!


Have a great day MACURH!
-Jill 

Day 1

So today the official email went out and I was named RCC-tech for 2011-2012! I was completely excited and already in Minnesota on my way to our transitional retreat. After the lovely 9 hour car ride (shout out to Ryan and Stacy for making it awesome) we arrived in Fargo, ND. After a lovely campus tour through puddles of melted snow and mud all over the sidewalks we had an amazing dinner at a Mexican restaurant down town. The town and campus are both gorgeous and I love the all the buildings on campus. Tomorrow business begins at 8:30 and I couldn't be more excited to start working on things!! Well I'm heading to bed it has been an extremely long but yet exciting day. 

-Jill