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During my second year of graduate school, I applied to the Office of Residence Life (ORL / ResLife) for a position of Resident Assistant (RA).

I was hired and spent the next three years (being a little older and more settled) being a leader and resource for my peer RAs in multiple buildings. During this period, ResLife at Stevens underwent significant growth as the institute worked on improving the college experience for its students. The ORL was restructured to increase the RA staff from 13 to 32, add an Assistant Director of Residence Life (ADRL), and increase programming and services to residents.

During my third year as an RA (with an RA for every wing of every building), the staff was deemed too large for oversight by a temporary "RA Coordinator". The position of part-time Resident Director (RD) was designed for inclusion in the program the next year. Two friends and myself were hired "from the ranks" to the new positions (each RD supervised staff and residents in 2 buildings) and thus began my 3-years as an RD. Over the course of this time, the other two positions were filled by a total of 5 people from both inside and outside Stevens.

With three years of a "full" RA staff and 3 RDs, the ORL decided to increase service again and transformed the part-time RD positions to full time Area Coordinators (AC). Two of the ACs would split the management of on-campus housing, and the third would manage graduate/off-campus housing and assist with facilities. At this juncture, I could not step up to the full-time AC position because 1) the pursuit of my Ph.D. would conflict with it, and 2) as much as I enjoyed and excelled at it, this was not my carreer.

For my final year, I stepped down to a Resident Coordinator (RC) position in a graduate building off campus. Here, among my academic peers, I frolic in the pasture of my ResLife mini-career until graduation in May.