The Start of a New Job

Tuesday began my two year work experience here in Oxford. We were welcomed by everyone at the staff lunch, and took tours of the building to get acquainted with everything. The three other consultants who just started are great guys and I look forward to working with them. Rick Scannell is from Lawrence University in Wisconsin. He was a big time wrestler there, and one guy I won't be getting into any heated arguements with. Mario Villa is from the proud state of Texas. He's a Longhorn, and I haven't seen him without a Longhorns t-shirt on yet. Brendan Cunningham is from Washington College in Maryland, and reminds me of my buddy Sean from Massachusetts. The two older consultants, who are back for their second year, are Jesse Moyer and Tim Gilbert. Jesse is a big old dude from the University of South Dakota, and randomly enough roomed with Carlson when we were here for Leadership College. Tim went to Western Kentucky and will proudly tell you how much of a Confederate he is. The six of us are shacked up in what is called the Arthur R. Priest house, just down the road from the Headquarters building. It used to be the building where the consultants worked, but they turned it into a house. It's very nice! Oxford is a beautiful place. The campus is great, and you have everything you need in this town except for a Target and a Best Buy. I guess Wal-Mart will have to work for two years. There is a lot of greek history here, and there are many headquarter buildings and different fraternity and sorority houses. We are about an hour north of Cincinnati and two hours west of Columbus.