GETTING BACK TO SCHOOL

I am currently an RA (Resident advisor) for Boyd hall one of the dorms on North Campus. As an RA, I was required to move in on August 1st, a week earlier than the residents. I like to believe RAs were lab rats to test the university plans for welcoming students back on campus. During RA training many questions were left unanswered  and we gave them an insight into situations they didn't consider in bringing students back to campus. One of the main situations they were able to resolve before students moved back in was providing another quarantine facility in case the other two set aside was filled up. Ingels Hall on central campus was turned into the main quarantine facility therefore all the staff there, including I, was moved to other dorms. Move in to the dorms was entirely different from last year. Firstly, only one family or two people were allowed in the elevator which made movement within the building really slow, students were advised to move in with only two extra people and also compared to last year no football players or athletes helped people move in. Also signs were put up on each floor of the buildings in front of the elevator, on the kitchen door and in the entrance of the building. The signs are below

Moving in, UK students were welcomed with a wellness kits which was placed in each rooms by the RA. This wellness kits had two masks, a mask bag, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a thermometer and a pack of alcohol wipes. Everything was entirely different this year included K week. K week was shortened from its usual 7 day program to only 4 days. It was held both in-person and online via zoom. I was a K week leader for the virtual team and we were required to host zoom versions of very event like campus ruckus, campus tour and the welcome meeting. My friend who was an in-person leader told me that the major change was k teams were divided into different time frames to attend campus ruckus and that each event was socially distanced. A picture she took of her K team is attached below

The wellness kit given to every students and staff of UK.

       picture of my friend's K team masked up and physically distanced.