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The best answer of the day was, of course, "It depends." |
Cub Reporter: WASFAA Summer Institute  Boise, Idaho was the staging point for the 2001
WAFSAA Summer Institute Basic Track Training. Boise State
University hosted the event and the participants lived like
college students for the five and a half-day intense financial
aid training, sleeping in the dorms and eating in the cafeteria
(erroneously called a "cafe").As Boise was also involved in their annual River Festival, the town was already overflowing with out-of-towners. The location of the festivities being "next door" to BSU, the Summer Institute participants were treated to a close-up view of the closing fireworks display Sunday night.  Training started in earnest on Monday morning and the
pace didn't let up until Wednesday afternoon when the
trainees were sent out on their own to do "field research".
To some this was floating down the Boise River on inner
tubes and rafts. Some checked out the downtown area, visited
the museum and at least one visited the zoo in the neighboring
park. Several different faculty members, all knowledgeable
enough to ask the representative from the Department of
Education when questions from the trainees stumped them,
presented the training sessions. The best answer of the day
was, of course, "It depends." Some presenters were more animated
than others, and one was reminded to "breathe" more
than once. In the evenings, movies on the big screen television
in Chaffee Hall relaxed the saturated brain.  |
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