Government play time
I'm sure every university with graduate programs have a Graduate Student Association type of governing body, which I imagine is just as worthless as the one we have here at UNLV. Well it's now for one of us physics grads to give our voice of reason to this silliness and I just relunctantly volunteered to do it. I do not want to do it at all, but no one else was volunteering, and if we didn't have a GSA representative than our vote would go along with another rep, like Chemistry.
I went to one GSA meeting last year when our rep wasn't able to make it and needed a proxy. It was absolutely pointless and useless as any governing body. All the kids get together to play government and feel important. I watched as most of the reps looked around the room being bored and a couple, such as the political science department, speak out as if what he said mattered. I vaguely remembered that he argued about some improper format of some paperwork.
Hopefully I can live up to one of our previous reps who all the other GSA reps hated because he wouldn't swallow their bullshit.
On the plus side though, we do get paid an extra $100 per semester.
I went to one GSA meeting last year when our rep wasn't able to make it and needed a proxy. It was absolutely pointless and useless as any governing body. All the kids get together to play government and feel important. I watched as most of the reps looked around the room being bored and a couple, such as the political science department, speak out as if what he said mattered. I vaguely remembered that he argued about some improper format of some paperwork.
Hopefully I can live up to one of our previous reps who all the other GSA reps hated because he wouldn't swallow their bullshit.
On the plus side though, we do get paid an extra $100 per semester.
posted by Brian at 1:03 PM
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