This week my main task was to schedule 30 writing consultants in our two main centers and five satellite locations for the fall semester. That is 30 brilliant students who all have other obligations, classes to take, classes to teach, office hours to keep, homework to do and their own personal writing tasks to complete covering some 260 hours of writing consultations every week. We have this awesome computer system wherein the consultants can upload their availability for the week, and then my task was to sort them all out into various slots in the various 'writer's roosts'. This task was compounded by a number of variables: no rookies working by themselves, each grad consultant has at least one shift working with grad writers, all shifts in the main roosts having a balance of rookies and veterans, lead consultants having shifts in the home roost, and individuals' preferences respected based on their seniority, etc.
Well, its done... at least until we meet next month and someone tells me that they had to switch their class schedule so they could take that class from their favorite professor.
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