Being an RA in this pandemic is like being given a car to drive but the car has no brakes. I use this analogy to describe this position because it is like most of the responsibilities in the dorm are passed down to us with little or no instructions. Every time we hear a countdown to the last day of school it incites a 'feeling of unknown' in residents like that is the only thing the university cares about. The first thing that happened mostly was the school delaying visitations in dorms for two weeks more. Of course when we RAs received the email, our first question was "did everyone receive this email?" The reason why this was our main concern was because most times RAs were a bridge between the housing office and the residents where we provided information and changes about covid in the dorms to individual residents. As a result of this, most times students vent out their frustrations about the whole rules concerning covid to us. Sometimes their methods of venting can be rude and attacking.
Recently, a rule was passed which required students to swipe in when entering the building. This rule was made to enforce the strict no visitation policy because people were sneaking in guests and non-students into the dorms. They also made the no visitation policy because they wanted to prevent the outbreak of cases in the dorm. Originally this policy was to be lifted on September 7th but due to the ever increasing number of cases on campus this policy was delayed till the 21st of September. Some people were very rude in the beginning with the swiping policy. Even though they knew about it, they still waited for you to say 'excuse me' about five times before coming to do it. Then a little number of people will hear you but completely ignore you.
This image above shows the scanner for swiping into the building
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