I was on campus at 8am today. Why? Because the freshmen were moving in and WOW was starting. Therefore we had a booth out for them to activate their accounts and sign up for wireless access.
We were setting up from 8am to about 9:20 or so (we were suppose to be done by 9, but eh). The first couple of hours were pretty slow. A few people here and there, some wanting to activate their account, the rest wanting to sign up for wireless access. Although we didn't actually sign those people up because they didn't have thier laptops with them. So for about the first 3 hours, we were telling everyone to bring their laptops down. So then from about 1 to 5 that's exactly what everyone did. Plus more people asking and then more laptops. We had some crazy lines at some points. We had a guy from IAS, Derek, who had a clipboard filling out wireless forms in the line. One good thing though was that because of our two banners, people segregated themselves into "Activate your account" lines and "wireless access" lines. That did help with the wireless forms because people choosing passwords took a while (damn rules). Also, we had chairs on the other side of the table for the account activaters cause, well, they spend a lot of time. It worked out pretty well. In the end, we had Dan, Terri and Jim doing account activations, and Me, Derek and Taylor doing wireless forms (and activation if need be) while Matt entered the wireless forms into Remedy when he could. I'd say that he got about half of them. We'll probably have even more tomorrow. There will be more people moving in (I moved in on Sunday 2 years ago), plus we turned away some people around 5 and I know there were some people who did not come back to register their laptop.
I will say that some of the questions were answered once I wrote "e-mail" abouve "accounts" in our "Activate your accounts here!" banner and when I wrote "free" above "wireless" on our "Sign-up your laptop for wireless access" banner. It never crossed any of our minds that people would think they would need to pay for the wireless access on campus. We were not expecting so many wireless. Jim had me make 50 copies of a map of our wireless coverage yesterday. We had to send him to make more. A bit later, we sent him to make more copies of the form because the 75 I made yesterday wouldn't be enough. The nice thing about (almost) all of our handouts is that we can over produce because they are things we use all year long (I say almost because one handout got reproduced wrong and had our WOW time on there so we can't use that after this weekend).
Think I'll head to bed soon. You know, so I can get my 5-6 hours in before I wake up at 3am ;-P.
Three days until Petaluma! :-D