15 Real-Life Struggles of An RA In Gif Form

1. When you are making plans with your friends, only to check your schedule and realize that you are on duty that night/weekend, which only makes you sad:

2. Or the joys of completing your rounds for the building(s):

3. Or the constant ringing of the duty phone...at all times of the night:

4. The fear that your residents have of you during the first couple of weeks of school when they see you:

5. But once they realize that you're cool, they start to not listen to you:

6. So you start to crack down and now you're "the mean RA":

7. ...which causes the whole hall (or building) to hate you:

8. Or having the fear of taking the most chaotic weekend(s) in campus history:

9. Which causes you to have to do...PAPERWORK:

10. But don't forget what happened during the incident, as you have to remember everything. Every. Single. Thing:

11. The littlest things start to scare you...like fire alarms, sirens, or even screaming:

12. Or some things annoy you...like when your residents are being loud, disruptive, or drunk:

13. But most of all, we enjoy our job:

14. We just ask of one thing...

15. Please. Be. Safe.

...You have one job.

(All images taken from Google)