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[katallison.livejournal.com]

This challenge *rocks.* One thing I've been enjoying in some of the stories (shellmidwife's and heuradys's, for example) is writers taking the opportunity to use some of their own specific professional knowledge in the documents they create. So this weekend, after several grueling days of getting new college students oriented and registed, and scribbling reams of file notes, I found this floating into my head. It's wayyyy over the word limit, so I'm posting it on my own webspace rather than in LJ, with apologies for inconvenience. Just a bit of silly fluff, but I had fun writing it.

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[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Oh, lordy!! That gave me freakin' chills about being back in college, which was right along the same lines as high school, except I had more fun and more friends. I must have had an advisor, at least on paper, but the only person who ever gave me any advice was the doctor at Student Health Services who told me to get to a dentist NOW, because the packing had come out of my wisdom tooth incision and the nerve was bare.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Ouch. At least that was good practical advice. *g* But yeah, most people I know seem to have had either lousy or no advising at college. It's taken me a while to get clear that most student don't really even need someone giving them *advice* so much as they need someone who'll just hush up, sit back, and listen to them, with sympathetic attention. I can imagine that's something that would have been pretty valuable to 18-year-old Ray, for sure.