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What is something you wish you learned in planning school??? Wrong answers ONLY!
What is something you wish you learned in planning school??? Wrong answers ONLY!
I’ll start... I wish there was a class on putting together easels. The easy ones are flimsy. The sturdy ones are complicated.
I wish I learned how to make name badges. Like the real way by doing document merge and printing on badge paper. When I was junior I had consultants to do it. Now I have junior planners. 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> But nonetheless a skill I don’t possess
Politics 101: you spend the whole class working on a project to submit to your prof who is pretending to be the decision maker. You submit it, prof never reads it, makes a decision without reading your plan, and gives you an arbitrary grade.
Silos: a team project where everyone works on their own section for the entire semester then the last week of class they try to figure out how to make it a seamless project
Consulting 101: you put together a scope of work, budget, and schedule then the professor keeps adding to the scope, delays responding to your submit y’all, but you still have to stay on schedule and under budget.
*submittal not submit y’alls https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦🏾♀️" title="Woman facepalming (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman facepalming (medium dark skin tone)">
How to pack a car for public meeting: boards, maps, easels, boxes of handouts, case of bottled water, projector, laptop, and 4 people with their work bags
Interagency Consultation: working in teams where each person represents a different agency. You work all semester and then have someone added to the team. You have to catch them up and then at the 11th hour they throw a curveball.
