tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591746524478903126.post124400035416387319..comments2023-09-26T00:55:56.735-07:00Comments on 11 ILC at Vanderbilt: Preparing for Adventure: "ILC in depth and the true Don Gosney"Madeline Kronenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809038721402994691noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591746524478903126.post-33483782575369252772011-05-28T10:20:32.506-07:002011-05-28T10:20:32.506-07:00Kye,
What do you mean when you refer to me as &qu...Kye,<br /><br />What do you mean when you refer to me as "mean". Have you been talking to some of our previous year's ILC cohorts?<br /><br />I worry about the way that I come across when I have to admonish some of our ILCers when they fail to live up to their agreements and obligations. It would be great to just let our cohorts do whatever they want but this isn't the way the ILC is set up.<br /><br />As we told you all even before you applied, this is not summer camp—this is a summer job. All told, we ask you to put in about a month’s work and we’re going to pay you—in the form of this scholarship—about $12,000. By mist people’s standards, that’s not bad wages for a person your age.<br /><br />We do, however, ask that you follow instructions and our guidelines.<br /><br />We have a plan that has been forged from the six years of experiences with previous groups. We try to learn from our mistakes and we listen to everything that our ILCers tells us so we can make improvements when necessary and so we don't make the same mistakes over and over again.<br /><br />Nonetheless, some of our ILCers forget from time to time that with any job they actually have to do the work or they suffer the consequences. In the real world, when you don’t do your job you get fired.<br /><br />Rather than “fire” an errant ILCer, we’d rather try to work with them to help them to become a better “worker”. If this makes me comes across as “mean”, then that’s a badge I’ll have to wear.<br /><br />What I would rather happen, Kye, is for more of our ILCers to ask themselves if they’re the root cause of my “meanness” and if there’s anything they can do to smooth the path we’re all taking.<br /><br />Oh well…<br /><br />You never did mention whether you got back to your football practice in time to actually practice.Don Gosneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com