My information finally went through human resources yesterday so I was able to get my RIN. Even though I’ve been working at RPI for a week, I haven’t had my RIN that whole time. In order for most departments at RPI to process new employees they need you RIN, its basically like a SSN for RPI employees.
Now that I have the RIN I was able to go down to the student union and get my Rensselear ID, sign up for my email and setup my voicemail. I still have to wait a few days to get my keys and security access to the building… but hey at least I have an email and ID that says I’m staff. Apparently someone else with the last name olsen and a first name that begins with m already worked/went to school at RPI; so my rcs is olsenm2 instead of olsenm 
I’m slowly learning everyones names and gradually beginning to get a feel for what everyone does. Each day I feel a little less awkward about my job, less like the new guy. It helps that everyone I work with is really cool. The wrong group of co-workers could really make this job be very overwhelming, so I count myself very lucky.
A couple days ago we had a meeting to go over the opening weekend. The curators all talked about the different events going on over the course of the weekend, and Johannes talked about more about the overall goals of EMPAC. If I had any doubts about coming over to EMPAC, they were completely alleviated with this meeting. I’m very excited about this opening weekend and I can’t wait to see and hear everything in October, its going to be crazy.
Hope to see some of you there.
