HI Happenings 2/23 - 3/1

General Announcements: 

• Thank you everyone for making time to attend the all-staff meeting on Saturday! We truly appreciate your time and hard work! 

• Courtesy Key Log and Temporary Keycards Spreadsheet will be moving over to Mercury in coming weeks. Stay tuned for updates! 

• 11th floor conference center grand opening will be on March 6th!

• We will begin to stop sending key charges beginning 2/26/25. Continue to log courtesy key log entries.

  • If you need to charge a resident for a missing courtesy key, please notify an FTE instead.

    
    

    {In the coming month, we will begin a new process for charging students who have lost their issued courtesy key/s.}

Eighth College: 

• New policy!  We will now be greeting everyone who comes in, even if they aren’t coming to the HI Desk. This will help us get into good habits for our conference and meeting attendees, especially as summer approaches. You never know who is going to walk in the door! 

• Check out our new Meetings & Conferences binder! This blue binder, located by the printer, houses all our needed items & information in one convenient place. Updated weekly, in this binder you’ll find:  

  • Itineraries 

  • Floorplans 

  • Catering MOUs 

  • Client/Catering Keycards 

  • Student Meeting Support Keycards 

  • There will be some changes in the package room coming soon!  

• Key boxes will be moved to the back wall by the safe. In order to do so, we will be removing all keys from the boxes so that they can be relocated. While this is being completed, courtesy keys will be stored in the plastic tubs on the package shelves above the 125-150s section.  

Pepper Canyon West: 

• Safety is a priority! Please continue to be vigilant in monitoring lobby doors. It is important to ensure that all three doors always remain closed. All students should have their IDs or a temporary keycard in order to access the building. Keeping any doors propped open, including the door to the HI Desk, is not allowed.  

• Students do have access to the community rooms in Pepper Canyon West without reservation. We can program it for them if their cards don’t have access already. Add “zPepper Canyon West Community Common Doors” to the student’s ID cards rather than sending them to Res - Life.  

• Be careful when extending keycards! Don’t duplicate the entry into the log- it causes residents to get multiple emails reminding them to return the keycard, when it is possible that they already have.  

  
  

Staff Shout outs: 

Congratulations Jennyfer!

Riddle Of the Week

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"I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?"

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{Answer will be located at the bottom of the blog}

Study Snippet

Small snippets of information

Jayla Dorsey - [International Business]

"In Samurai Culture, suicide is considered an honorable act toward ones self resolve. It's called "seppuku"!"

Isaac Alvarado - [Biochemistry]

"I've been learning about the 3D structures of proteins, starting from primary all the way to quaternary. Misfolds in the globular proteins can lead to diseases like mad cow disease and Alzheimer; as they accumulate in the brain they can cause neurodegenerative damage."

Bonnie Wong

"Albatross birds are extremely loyal to their partner and will wait decades for them to return from migration across the ocean, fighting survival to see one another again. ❤️" 

Zen Garden of Ideas

Accept Any Unwanted Thoughts

It’s human nature to flinch away from pain, so of course you’d prefer to avoid thoughts that cause distress.

Yet pushing away unwanted thoughts isn’t the way to gain control. That usually just makes them more intense.

Instead, try the opposite: Accept those thoughts, and let them in. Say you feel a little low because nothing in your life seems to be happening the way you planned despite all your hard work. Acceptance might involve telling yourself, “Nothing seems to be going right, and that’s discouraging. There’s only so much you can do to create change yourself, but giving up entirely isn’t the answer either.” Acceptance can even offer clues as to why specific thoughts keep coming up. Maybe you keep thinking about a fling who ghosted you. Accepting those persistent thoughts leads you to recognize that you really wanted your connection to last. Their disappearing act left you with unresolved questions and an overwhelming sense of unworthiness. You worry you’ve failed at dating and feel anxious about trying again. Acknowledging these fears allows you to confront them and remind yourself that you’re not to blame for their bad manners. Keeping the situation in perspective can help you manage your worries about it happening again instead of letting fear hold you back from finding someone new.

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Riddle Answer - "A Joke"

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Cred - Julia Osborne, Julio Villarruel, Karina Oquendo, Isaac Alvarado, Bonnie Wong & Jayla Dorsey