So the university administrative e-mail has been down for maintenance for almost 2 days. It's been rough living in a world without this vital piece of communication, but honestly it's been kinda nice not having my phone vibrate every 10 minutes with a new message. Of course, it will be hard catching up as quickly as I am used to checking e-mails when it comes back on later today ... but it has become a welcome break.
The funny thing is ... Other forms of electronic communication have helped keep the status quo in a lot of ways. First, this blog was used yesterday to send information about logging in to EducationXpo to our student and staff representatives. No one skipped a beat! I also used Twitter to let everyone know what was going on with our e-mail service. Of course, AIM was still functional (my screename is UNHGil), so I was able to chat with my fellow admissions counselors during the day as well.
Nothing replaces face to face contact, which is why we so strongly encourage students and their families to come visit our campus ... but when we are all travelling so much, electronic communication makes our lives so much easier. It's just good to k now there are so many other ways to communicate outside of e-mail.
