Another day completed in the Kelley MBA program thanks to the goal! Finished my first final, went to an amazing multi-channel presentation put on by a senior consultant at Target, and then lunch and networking with 2nd year CMA-ers.

What better way to celebrate the end of week 5 than with a visit from my little brother! Even though his flight was late we were able to get him to Nick’s (One of Playboy’s top 10 college bars) and to the Upstairs to celebrate my friend’s birthday with Beer Golf. We finished off the night at Steak ‘N Shake. Goodbye week 5, hello, weekend!

It's Friday, but it doesn't feel like it

It’s raining outside, and I have a Critical Thinking test i just a few hours. I can’t even remember why I used to like Fridays any more. All they are now are midterms and finals.

However, there is a cool presentation after the test by a current team member at Target discussing channels. I am really excited.

Then it will be on to Academy Friday, where we will have lunch with the 2nd years and pick their brains about the Core and their internships. Hopefully, I can meet some more great contacts. After the meeting we are having a quickie Trek meeting to try to finalize our companies for the January trip to MN.

At 7 PM a big plane will land in Indianapolis with my brother on it! Can’t wait to show him around a real college town! It is going to be fun!

I guess Friday isn’t so bad after all, if you get rid of the Critical Thinking final ;)

Weds Whining

I can’t believe that the week is halfway over, where did it go? Oh that’s right I had meetings up the wazzoo, networking, reading, and studying. If I didn’t have outlook I wouldn’t have a clue what month it was let alone the day.

Monday was a full day of class, then followed up with a marathon of Operations homework with my team. Then I had to write up all of our answers then head back to school for the next installment of the Diversity Conference Prep series. I showed up late, and was promptly put in a group for a practice interview, fun! I did learn a lot but I was super discombobulated for the first few minutes.

Tuesday was more class, then office hours with Target (swoon) I stayed for 2 hours talking with their buyers and HR and learned a lot. Really keeping my fingers crossed. Then we headed home to get some reading done for class, then back to the Godfrey Center for the Marketing network night with Bosch, Ecolab, Nestle, Target and more. They had some good presentations and it allowed us some more networking time. We didn’t go to the happy hour put on by Nestle and got home at about 8:30 but it felt like 11. We stayed up working on classwork until 11:30ish and then headed to bed.

The alarm was set for 5:30 and I turned it off and went back to sleep for “5 minutes” 5 minutes turned into an hour and 45 and we were this close to being late to class. I was pretty impressed that we were able to get out the door with everything in 30 minutes. After class Charlton had a Lost in Translation meeting and I headed downstairs to the lounge to catch up on some blog reading and find out where to get an extra ticket for the football game for my brother. We then headed to the arena, picked up his “student” ticket and then went to the bookstore to finally get some non Kelley IU gear.

We’re finally back at the house atPost Options 2:45 and we are just sitting down to lunch. Welcome to Weds!

Painful Powerpoint

Yesterday we had an 8 hour Powerpoint presentation scheduled for us by the LPCD. Everyone was confused on why it needed to be 8 hours, aren’t Powerpoints supposed to short and succinct? Regardless on our expectations and questions we arrived at the auditorium at 8:00 for what we thought would be a Powerpoint for Dummies presentation.

A few minutes in, we learned that the presentation was not about using Powerpoint, but how to make a presentation. While many of us had similar classes in undergrad, it felt like a waste of 8 hours. The presenter didn’t really understand the needs of the audience and it was run like a mad house. I think he lost most of us about an hour in, and many of his stories about Michael Douglas still couldn’t bring us back. It was a rough day. Unlike many of my classmates I hadn’t brought any homework with me so I didn’t get caught up at all during all of our downtime.

I did get a coffee break at Sugar and Spice and had lunch at Laughing Planet so I guess the day wasn’t a total wash.

We came back to the apartment after, to just the dehumidifier. They finally took the fans, we are getting that much closer to normalcy! Hopefully they will take the dehumidifier soon as well. After a short nap, we headed back to campus for a Meet the Faculty reception. After some appetizers we headed back home to have dinner with our friends/classmates. We ended up hanging out until the wee hours of the morning, and had to pull the boys away from Digital Trivial Pursuit. Was a great way to end a not so good day.