Weekly Reflection

 Senior Project | Weekly Reflection

It’s hard to believe we’ve already been through one whole week of Senior Project. Our project has certainly taken its twists and turns, starting at Student Event Coordination and now, a week later, Admissions interns. This total switch in our project was not random or uncalled for, but instead actually quite necessary in order for my group mates and I to fulfill the requirements of Senior Project. Simply put, our first project did not provide us with enough opportunity to clock in hours. Our original goal was to put on certain events and activities for the whole student body that, hopefully, they would participate in and enjoy. This would get students out of their rooms, and instead, into more active, social environments. This was the plan. However, as we’ve found out, a prep school, given its schedule full of classes, sports, theater, clubs, and many other extracurriculars, does not make for the best setting for this plan. We failed to consider the very small amount of free time Proctor students have. This is a plan that requires students to have a certain level of time and energy which is necessary when participating in these events/activities. Throughout the week, we couldn’t plan events for the morning as the entire school (minus us) is in classes. So, that left us with just the evenings to put on events, which are already filled with afternoon activities and dinner, and then 7:30pm study hall. Our first day, last Monday, we made a bonfire outside of Slocumb and had s’mores ingredients ready to go for anyone who joined. It went well, actually, and we thought we were off to a good start. We just came to find that there was overall not enough work for us to do in the mornings when the rest of the school was busy in class and we couldn’t put on any activity. This led to our eventual transition from Student Event Coordinators to Admissions Interns. On Thursday, we met with Alicia and discussed with her the possible logistics of the new project and whether or not we would have enough to do. She expressed to us that there was a lot to do and definitely things she and the Admissions office could use some helping hands on. Since then, we’ve given three tours (one each day) and worked on the Admissions Instagram page, aimed at welcoming incoming students to the community. That brings us to today: Monday, May 16. We are one week through with one week remaining and we’re not where we expected to be. However, we feel as though we’re in an even better situation than before, where we’ll have an easier time being productive and making full use of our time.