Here's my artistically arranged table at the fair. If you were at the Portland NACAC fair, you'll know that my table didn't look this good any time after the first two minutes; I had constant traffic for the first three and a half hours of a four hour session, which didn't give me much time to neatly collate the publications or fluff the HMC banner. But I felt like a rock star and I appreciated the patience of all the families who waited in line to speak with me, and hopefully they didn't mind that the stacks of publications were embarrassingly askew.
There was one little thing that really made this fair special:
That pretty gadget would be a bar code scanner. Normally at a college fair, students (or, okay, parents) are obligated to fill out "please send me more information" cards by hand at each individual table. Savvier families bring along sticky labels with pre-printed data, but it's still time-consuming. Thanks to this scanner, students could enter all their personal information online and print out a bar code. When they walked up to the table, I just zapped the bar code and that was it -- done. Finis. No hand cramps, no pen smudges, no stack of cards for me to enter into the computer. It was very, very cool. I liked.
But even better is that travel season is over and I get to stay home. Happiness and joy!
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