Resources and Referrals

Campus resources, I always thought that those things really didn't matter. I never needed them, except for the Thielen Health Center, which was a really bad experience. They had awful service and weren't helpful at all, actually they were more of a hindrance than anything. After that I didn't want anything to do with any of the campus resources. But this week really allowed me to see all of the possibilities that they can give students, especially first year students. Something that I really need to work on is learning a lot of the resources that are offered and figure out how they can help in certain situations. Along with knowing the resources being able to give advice or refer is something that is really important as well.

Referring people to different things is something that I am not used too. This makes me really nervous to give one because I don't want to screw up and tell them the wrong thing. I like to thing that I can do everything on my own and give perfect advice. Although this is not true in the slightest. I am far from perfect and that includes my advice or any help that I try to give. So the fact that I will probably screw up is not something that I want to happen at all. So I will be working a lot on making sure that I know a lot so that I can help students the best that I can.

This week was really good for me because it got me motivated to start getting ready for the coming semester. A wakeup call that it is coming soon and that I need to prepared!