Community (or lack thereof) Building

Whitworth University has a wonderful tradition called Community Building Day. On this day, all of the little wide eyed freshmen go to buses, and are carted off to help their community through pre-planned service projects. It's a wonderful idea, having the normally looked down upon College Students reach out and stretch their fingers in the local community. My involvement and opinions on CBD (Community Building Day) are as follows.

I first learned about CBD about two hours after it was over. Being a freshman myself, I was expected to show up bright and early (8am, the proverbial "asscrack of dawn"), and hop on a bus. This might have gone better had I known about the event. After speaking to a dorm mate about their experiences (and wondering where everyone in my Freshman Seminar class had gone), I learned that an email blast had been sent out to alert the students as to the existence of this fabulous event. I hadn't noticed said email, and so I went to my gorgeous little hunk of silicon to investigate. I checked the email folder; Nothing new for days.

My brain followed this general thought train: "Odd, no email... In days. Huh. Whitworth normally spams me (almost literally, I had to create a mail filter to stop the .whitworth.edu domain from being blocked) with emails. Something must be up. Ok, let's check what's going on. Settings. Hm, my password seems right... Oh wait, I had a problem getting to my email in the library on tuesday of last week... Had them reset my password. Wonder if I forgot to update it in my Mail program settings? Hm, yep, that was it."

Bing, I had 57 new emails from Whitworth. The little bouncing icon on my screen reminded me of the wonderful community that had been built during my technical absence from the mail list.

The moral of the story? Don't check your email from the library, and if you do, remember to keep all password entries the same.