It's 1:30...and I just got home

So tonight was our first all nighter! We got our case yesterday and thought we had a pretty good handle on it. My team got to school at around 8 am and I worked the numbers all afternoon. We took a break at lunch time so I could home and take care of addie and then it was back to the break out room. Everything was progressing nicely, until our mentor showed up around 4ish to tear our presentation to bits. So instead of taking a couple hour dinner break, we grabbed a quick one downstairs and worked through the night. We completely redesigned our presentation and was still able to get a half an hour in at our designated practice room. Our mentor brought us some awesome treats (homemade thai curry puffs!) and gave us some suggestions on tightening the presentation. So at 11:30 it was back to the breakout room to tweak it some more. Think we are pretty set. Of course I got stuck with the numbers so I will have a lot of practicing to do in the morning before heading back to school again at 8 (for our 9:15 presentation) phew! What a day!

Dinner and Dirt

So after a short break from all things Kelley, we had dinner with our orientation mentors. We hit up Yogi’s to make the transition to the D-bar that much easier. And if I didn’t already love my team, tonight just cemented it. We got the dirt on everyone and our mentor made sure to give us the dirt on what to expect from our Kelley experience. I am really pumped to get started and can’t wait to work with everyone this semester.

Today’s agenda:

• meet our team & mentor
• opening session
• cultural orientation

Gotta say, I love my team. I am sure they will all be sick of me at the end of the Core but they are a great group of people and we get along famously already. looking forward to the 2 am study sessions

As always, I was totally pumped after the opening session. The faculty and staff are some of the most amazing public speakers and really nail home why this is such a special place

Cultural orientation was interesting, not what I would have scheduled for the first day but we did learn a lot in who we can be perceived and how we need to be sensitive in the workplace

All in all, a good full day. Now its time for our mentor dinner and maybe if I get inspired we will stick around for the D-bar.