So what can we the staff change (within reason) to make the experience better for the students?

Let us into the basement without needing supervision! If the RC's really want to know what we are up to, then damnit, they can come supervise us. I don't want to have to rely on my RC's schedule to do laundry.

I remember last year (West Term II, 2007) that Julian, Clay and myself went downstairs at 7 in the morning and watched sportscenter and comedy central in N commons while waiting for our laundry. Can anyone tell me what, exactly, the staff is trying to prevent?

And, no, O commons will NEVER replace N commons as the sanctuary of chill.

ahahaha i have a few ideas of what the staff was trying to prevent

yeah, i didn't like the rules for ultimate times
that was pretty uncool
i don't see any problems with playing
i mean, what's the difference between throwing/catching intensely and playing?

The same rules from last year, basically.

~The lack of the all-nighter on the last night SUCKED. If anything, that's the biggest deal. I, for one, like to enjoy my last few hours at TIP not in my room.
~Basement supervision was very inconvenient, too. I would like to do laundry whenever I want. Having no clothes to sleep in and no towel to shower with is especially bad right after the dance, and I'm sure no RC likes being woken up at 7:00, like we did to poor Rajhai.
~Creation of a dress code was annoying. It wasn't a problem last year.
~The "evening-activity-sign-up" in the morning was a total FAILURE. Good call on taking that away after a week or so.

Those were the most prominent, I guess. Sorry for being rude, but I really liked the way everything was structured last year. I'm sure everyone else agrees; just re-watch the "Doctor, doctor" skit.

Yeah, I agree, our privileges this year were literally beaten and hung.

right, i second what joyce said

basement, lack of an all-nighter, the stupid dress code, and the signing up

I thought the signing up was actually kind of funny. Every was running for dear life just to sign up for evening activities ...

but that basically means you can't even get to sleep in if you want an activity

well, at least it was an incentive to get out of bed...it was so annoying though..i lived on teh first floor in M, right around the corner, and if we came up half a minute early they yelled at us to go back and by the time we walked to the end of the hallway and back the line already stretched down the hall

Meh. We had to jump 2 flights of stairs. Sometimes OVER people...

Bring back the Milk Chug and the Crest next year. Those were the two fourth year skits or whatever that I had come to tip expecting to do, but instead I got stuck only doing Dr Dr. Pretty much everything else everyone said as well. I thank Brian (the RC) for the activity sign up changes cuz he actually listened to us when we talked to him about it and then brought it up in a staff meeting. Sorry to say, but I think most things this year were poorly planned. A few I can remember are the scavenger hunt, the postponement of the carnival day (which I think should be changed back to casino day), and even the sunrise watching on the last day. Last year we went there in the dark and saw every part of it. This year, the staff had to be told that the sun was already rising before they remembered to take us.

another thing that bothered me was the lack of activities for carnival day
it felt a lot more like "lame evening activities" that you could've just changed between

ditto on the milk chug and crest

Carnival ---so first term carnival was different. i think it would've been a lot more amusing if we had gotten a karaoke machine. the scavenger hunt also did not happen term one.
Crest--- Some tipster obviously told their parents and too many called the main office
Milk Chug--- Honestly, nobody ever finished that and it was nasty as hell to clean up.
Sign ups--- I got nothing, they were gonna be bad either way. But yes, thank Brian for the newer version.
Sun rise--- Would have worked if I ran it
Casino Day--- Speculation here, but I think kids' parents claimed it caused gambling addictions. Also rumor has it a tipster decided to "make it rain"
Laundry/Basement--- No comment.

Crest - You sign up for it so its not as if anyone is doing anything they don't want.
Milk Chug - Last year they almost finished it, and if its the cleaning up that you don't like, then have the kids who do the chug clean it all up.
Casino Day - Yea someone did last year, and it was funny as hell. Didn't really matter tho since the majority of the money was made off of sticky notes.
Sun rise - Who is TIP shadow?