Tuesday, Oct. 7, 8:04 a.m.

Hoefer tries to stay interested in class — Jl MC 220: Principles of Public Relations. She struggles not to fall asleep, keeping occupied by writing pages of notes.

9:08 a.m.

Hoefer walks to to the GSB office, where she checks her e-mail and reads the Daily.

10:06 a.m.

Hoefer heads to Gilman Hall for Chemistry 105. After about 45 minutes of the lecture, she leans her head onto her left shoulder and nods off.

“I’m an art major, so the concepts in it are hard for me to understand,” she explains. “I usually skip the class on Thursdays because it’s hard for me to understand what [the professor’s] talking about.”

11:20 a.m.

After class, Hoefer returns to the white brick, ivy-covered Sigma Kappa sorority house to eat lunch with her sisters before heading to the GSB office.

The robust scent of pasta wafts from the kitchen into the house’s dining room.

Hoefer sits at the end of the long wooden table.

A large window overlooks the house’s verdant front lawn and lets in light from the afternoon sun. The dining room’s glass chandeliers sparkle. Hoefer chats with her sisters over lunch.

“I heard [Inter-Fraternity Council Senator Robert Baptiste] is running for [GSB] Vice President or something,” says sorority sister Mary Henkel, junior in accounting.

“It’s just a bunch of talk,” Hoefer replies, taking a bite of ravioli. “Everyone’s talking right now.”

The conversation changes to lowering the legal drinking age. Hoefer looks up from her lunch and smiles. She just turned 21.

After lunch, Hoefer climbs a winding staircase to her room to grab the textbooks and notebooks she’ll need for the rest of the day.

In Hoefer’s bedroom, Einstein sticks out his tongue from a poster on the wall. She points to a framed picture on her desk of she and her boyfriend, Dan Kline.

“He’s in San Francisco,” she explains. “It helps having him far away, so that I can focus my time on GSB and my sorority.

“It would be tough [having him here] because I’d be really torn to want to do stuff with him and GSB and my sorority. I can multitask, but not like that.”

12:08 p.m.

Hoefer arrives at the GSB office and throws her book bag on the floor. She crosses to GSB President Mike Banasiak’s office with a stack of papers and plops down in a chair.

Kate Rydberg, Banasiak’s girlfriend, is sitting at his desk using the computer.

“Where’s Mike?” she asks Rydberg.

“Did you make an appointment?” Rydberg jokes.

Banasiak walks in, grabs a sheet of paper and walks out.

“I’ll be right back,” he says over his shoulder.

When he returns, Hoefer hands him the papers.

“What’s this?” he asks.

“Those are the Committee on Lectures interviews you have to do,” she reminds him.

“I though we were done with those,” Banasiak says, confused.

“No, [Pat Miller, Director of the Committee on Lectures] said she wanted two more people,” Hoefer informs him.

1:35 p.m.

Hoefer makes her way through the GSB office, speaking with senators about their current projects.

Next, she sorts through a stack of through faxes. She looks up from the stack with a smile.

“We got an application for a deputy director,” she says to Sheena Rae Green, GSB Director of Student Diversity.

“No way!” Green responds, startled. “So, that’s how many people we have now?”

“We have three, I think,” Hoefer says. “So, not very many, but that’s a surprise.”

Hoefer’s office phone rings. An applicant for the GSB Elections Commissioner position is on the other end. The applicant is dropping out of consideration.

After hanging up the phone, Hoefer grabs the application and sends it through a paper shredder.

“Well, I guess that makes [the decision] easy,” she says with an annoyed look. “When it comes to an election commissioner — where you need someone to be started at a certain time so they can do their job — it gets stressful.

“Especially when you only have one person apply after you’ve put out ads and asked people to make recommendations.”

Earlier in the year, Hoefer says, she didn’t have to worry about a lack of students applying for GSB positions. She held interviews with six applicants for three GSB Associate Justice positions.

Hoefer says the worst part of her job is having to deal with student apathy.

“Sometimes it makes me want to pull my hair out!” she exclaims.

“I just don’t understand it — I don’t understand how students can care so much about their looks and not about the university and what’s happening in it. It’s just trying to get [students] off their butts and be proactive, but they never do.

“It takes two minutes out of your time to fill out a survey, or five hours a week to be involved with GSB. We’re not asking you to hand over your life, just to give us your input as a student.”

6:18 p.m.

Hoefer prepares for the GSB Executive Cabinet meeting. She’s disappointed with the turnout — only five of the 11 executive cabinet directors are in attendance.

Hoefer asks the cabinet directors for progress reports and makes recommendations and suggestions on the projects.

After hearing from the directors, Hoefer discusses the actions the cabinet must take by the following week in preparation for GSB’s Fall Gala and Meet Your Government Day.

She makes a list of the jobs to be done, and delegates jobs to the directors. After allowing cabinet members to make closing announcements and reminders, Hoefer adjourns the meeting.

“I’m tired, and I want to go to bed,” she says. “I just wish I could.”

Still awaiting her as she heads back to the Sigma Kappa house are homework, sorority business and a long conversation with her boyfriend.

GSB Vice President Ben Albright says he admires Hoefer’s work ethic.

“It says a lot about her character that she’s able to handle such a demanding [GSB] schedule so well on top of other things that take up her time,” Albright says.