Week of the 24th

Had my exam on Tuesday; not too bad to say I'm rubbish at Economics!

Exec on Wednesday was interesting, with some important papers being passed through, including a reformation of RAG to give the group a bit more structure, and stop the confusion between the society and committee, and the laying out of new processes to receive feedback from key University meetings.

Also, a project proposal from Chris Charnley with an aim to improving the social facilities, namely the R-Bar, at Riseholme; this is a project me and Dan Derricott will also be supporting...

On Friday, I went to Riseholme with 200 Letters addressed to the Vice Chancellor naming the aspects of the R-bar which need to be improved; with a lot of Riseholme students living on campus, it's essential that their social well-being is taken into consideration as well...

With many students having already left for summer, and the remainder being in exams, it was quite hard to track students down, however I got around 50 students to sign a letter - 100% of those I could find to ask - and then posted them off to the VC; a successful start to the project in my opinion...
Riseholme was something mentioned in most of 10/11 Exec Team's manifestos; hopefully projects like this will continue being ran...

I'll be at home most of this week, taking a well deserved break I think! ...I'll be back on Thursday, though may be working... the week after should be good though :)

Week of the 17th

...nothing much to report this week; I spent a lot of time talking to students and chatting to some on FaceBook with regard to faculty issues, and have arranged the first Student-Academic Forum for the Business and Law Faculty (8th June, 1PM in the Hub) - hopefully this is something we can roll out to all faculties next year as I'm positive it'll give students and reps a direct way to raise issues with academics between formal meetings.

Exam coming up on Tuesday, revision timeee :/

This week...

On Tuesday we essentially finalised plans for the future of Bullet - exciting stuff - hopefully it'll lead to a strong future for the magazine, as well as other aspects of Bullet Media, and some great opportunities for students...

Today I was going around courts again, photographing problems, despite many people being away for the weekend/gone home having finished their course, it was quite successful with some serious issues being highlighted. I always enjoy getting out and talking to people anyways...

Some major issues and events arising within my Faculty as Business School Liaison Rep, so next week I'll most probably be concentrating on that as apposed to anything Office-based, though might be venturing a bit more into the Accommodation Accreditation Scheme...

-Joe

The internet's down again..?

Sorry for a late post; as many of you will know the Internet was down again in courts this weekend...

Last week I finally handed in the last two of my assignments, which although left me not much time to do anything before I went home for the weekend, though with only one exam to go until I'm done, I've been looking into what I can be doing before the end of the year...

Today I've been arranging another accommodation initiative to target specifically the University Courts'; I'll be coming round this week taking photos of any problems and breakages, and offering advice on any immediate problems... (not that Students paying so much should have any problems - but hopefully that's something we can continue to work on...)

Tomorrow, I have meetings with the General Elections and Bullet Review Project Groups, both of which are quite important projects, which although may not be in the students' eye, are beginning to produce some good outcomes...

Expect another post this week with an update of how things have been going...

Give me strength...

As I'm sure many of you can appreciate, I'm pulling my hair out at the moment with having two assignments due in on Tuesday...
Not really had time for much else, but expect some more interesting reports soon.