Personal+Advising

Try to get together occasionally for lunch with day students but hard to do with freshman who are usually on pantry duty.
 * How do you create personal bonds with your advisee and gain a sense of their personal life at school?

Attend their sporting events, as possible.

This is why having advisees in the dorm is important. However, with those kids that I don't have in the dorm, I have meetings usually weekly, and we talk about life and how things are going. It is hard. This is why having scheduled time would be really beneficial.

I don't mind the scheduled group time but do not find it helpful for personal advising. I try to schedule specific times with my advisees when we both are free (a free block, after lunch fall-spring, after Tuesday/Thursday dinner.) I think the bonding happens through social events that they enjoy (going out to coffee, going out to dinner, etc.)**