on student activities.
first of all, let me take the opportunity to pose the following query:
to UF and its office of “orientation/preview/whatever-the-hell-it’s-called”:
how is it that it occurred to you guys to tell people all about the football team, and who Urban Meyer is/was, and who Timmy Tebow is/was, but you guys didn’t think it would be important to mention ANY of the cool work that’s done by your (i imagine) neighboring office, the office of multicultural and diversity affairs?
it’s pretty appalling that graduate students aren’t recruited more heavily to participate in some of the things these folks have going on. it’s also a shame that the only way i could find out was to actually go into the IBC (that’s the institute of black culture, one of those buildings next to chipotle that no one seems to know about) and pester a really great work-study into giving me a tour. that actually was followed up by a visit to the LGBT office, courtesy of that same work-study student.
all of that took me half an hour. i won’t even get into how, at a school this big, that should have taken all day. i will say that half an hour of effort, and i feel like my entire world has just opened up.
i just may end up liking it here after all…