Before you say anything, I know “name tag” is spelled with two words and not one. I was just trying to better emulate a traditional forename/surname structure.
On Valentine’s Day last month I talked about my current stint as a University Honors Ambassador. Essentially putting together an event for Honors students to enjoy alongside a fellow member of the program and the Co-Curricular Coordinator.
Something, something insert another joke about adding ‘event planner’ to my résumé again.
Even though that’s not really a joke.
I’m 100 percent adding that onto my CV.
Since I last talked about the event, we’ve done a sizable amount of work putting it all together. After securing the Career Center representative that I talked about in the last post, we’ve also gotten a journalist, a visual arts teacher and the associate editor of a psychology journal confirmed to come to CSUF on March 20.
On top of that, we’re also going to have a representative of the Alumni Association come in to talk about opportunities that students can use after they graduate.
Which is something I should actually pay attention to at this point. Pretty scary.
We also have a plan in place for some food to have at the event and there’s possibly going to be a networking-theme game involved.
I’m not personally sure how that’s going to work out, but my partner has an idea in mind. So we’ll see.
The only thing that’s still mostly on the back burner right now is advertising the event. We already have a poster put together, but because Honors students are our only real audience so most of the messages are only going out to them through the program’s official channels.
As we’ve been meeting every Wednesday during the lead-up period, every week I’ve had a different task to accomplish.
For our meeting tomorrow, I was tasked with putting together name tags to place by each of the members of our panel. I decided to do a test name tag first, and I’ll bring that in to show everyone.
I wanted to talk about it here before I do.
In part because I had nothing else to write a blog post on today, and I’m really scrounging the bottom of the barrel trying (and failing) to write something every day while all of my school obligations kick my ass.
But also because the method I used to make these name tags are personal, in a way.
As my social media stinger said, don’t believe it when someone says you won’t use anything you learn in school.
In all three (four? I lost track frankly) of the classes I had with the now-retired Daily Titan advisor Bonnie Stewart, she made us create our own name tags. Even if she knew us for years.
They were simple. Just fold a basic 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper in half vertically, then fold the two ends into the center line.
Finally, fold the sides together for a quick, easy and cheap triangular name tag:
Hope you enjoyed arts & crafts with Jason Rochlin. My brand new, impromptu category of posts that I’ll probably never repeat on purpose.
Figured it would be worth a post to thank Bonnie for everything she taught me — even if the useful stuff is as simple as name tag folding.
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