Finals week, and this is what I have been reduced to! A slob in sweats pouring over ppts and word files regarding monetary and fiscal policy until I am cross-eyed. I washed the dishes for the first time this week just a few minutes ago, eww!
on what has been the most intense 16 weeks of my life. And because I am days away from being doesn't mean I can slack, I think I scheduled more stuff today than I have had in awhile. First up, Finance final. Didn't leave crying, but I think the other finals have made me dead to getting worked up. Then picked up my Accounting final from the MBA office, not stellar but not the worst grade in the class, something I have really had to get used to this semester.
A if you didn't see the massacre on the wii a few weeks back, it was back in all of its glory during tonight's final.
Did I really sign up for this? Hard to believe when I am studying for hours straight and then meeting with GCS to have a major overhaul of my resume that I voluntarily decided to do this. I know all the second years say that once you get through the Core it gets better, but it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now.I found out today that I am behind in my off-campus search, I need to work on my interview presence, develop my CARs and start taping myself interviewing. Oh and become a student of retail; while I am trying to keep up with 7 classes, leadership and professional development and my academy prep. Not to mention trek planning, eating, sleeping and trying to spend time with the animals. Really feeling the squeeze.
One more full day of class before the Econ midterm. Have to try to crank out an Operations assignment in there too. Next week is hell week, I think we will put the Navy Seals to shame.
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!
Thursday was a packed day of classes and studying. I did get to meet with my peer coach quickly at lunch to tweak my resume again in between then it was Quant to the max! My team started upstairs at one of the round tables and then we headed to one of the classrooms with some fellow classmates to really get through some of the bigger problems on the projector. At a 5:15 we called it a night and headed back home for more studying on our own. Thank goodness that the rain canceled my flag football game so I could get in a little more studying time.
Alarm went off on Saturday morning, a little later than a normal day here but early nonetheless. I tried to get a little reading done and then got the house cleaned up and breakfast out for our second Top Chef Breakfast Club. Played it a little lower key with some muffins (I made from a mix), fruit and yogurt. Was still a blast and was great to have everyone over, not sure how much longer we will be able to keep this up.
Then we powered through a good 7 hours of studying. When both of our eyes were crossed we closed the books and headed to a friend’s house for some home cooked japanese. It was absolutely delicious and was such a treat. After some homemade zucchini bread for dessert we waddled home. There it was more studying, I promised not to go to bed until I finished everything for finance. at midnight, I finally had finished and we capped off the night with an episode of Mad Men before heading to bed.
My alarm went off at the weekend time, and I was in no position to get up. I had a massive headache from the lack of sleep and I finally got sore from all the physical activity on Friday. I convinced Charlton to take the dog out and slept for a few more hours. Once up, breakfast and homework. Then lunch and homework. At about 1 I got all cleaned up for my academy interview with the director of the Consumer Marketing Academy. I think it went well, I should find out if i got it in a few more weeks. Then it was off to target to get some much needed school supplies and more Lean Cuisines for the week. Then home for lots of lots of econ.
We took a dinner break at Cheeseburgers in Paradise since Charlton had gotten a coupon. Nice to have a sit-down dinner for about $10. Then it was back to the grind of more schoolwork.
I just finished everything for tomorrow. Now I can get a jump on Tuesday & Weds’ HW. Got to get ahead as much as I can this week with as many meetings and activities that are planned.
**Also booked my hotel, flight and disneyland ticket for the NAWMBA conference. Happiest place on earth, here I come (with my suit)!
So I kicked off the first day of school with a bad start:
But then the day turned around. Not like choirs singing or anything but it went pretty well after that. Today I had finance, econ and operations. I got cold called in econ and survived and I felt adequately prepared for everything. Had my resume writing workshop after class and got a pretty awesome review on it (just needed a few grammar tweaks) Then it was time to come home, get some more studying done (lots of reading for my management case discussion on weds), grabbed a quick dinner here at the house before heading back to IU to see Guy Kawasaki speak. It was such a cool talk, I ended up with pages and pages of notes…hopefully I will be able to apply some of his lessons.
But since my Myers Briggs says I like lists here is what I accomplished today:
The sad thing is, even with all that I got done today I have loads more I didn’t even get a chance to start. Gotta keep treading!
So today was the last day before the official start of class, not that the last few weeks haven’t been a lot of work. It may sound like all hot air balloon rides and food festivals but we have had some hard core reading and that case comp was brutal. Just like Jumpstart, we are going to start getting cold called and thrown into the fire. Core professors, please be gentle!!
Today was an all day study session, with a small break for me to write my academy application essay. The hope is to ge that turned in after my resume workshop tomorrow so I can get my interview out of the way. The club meetings start happening on Tues, we have a leadership presentation tomorrow night and not to mention the SAC application available tomorrow to try to wiggle into my schedule. AND CAN’T FORGET ROUNDTABLES! I need to research my companies something fierce and get everything all ready for networking night on Weds. Too much too do, so little time.
If nothing else, at least my lunch is packed!
Although I would love to say that I crossed all of the assignments off the to-do list yesterday, it ended up being more of a social day.
In the morning, we held our 1st top chef breakfast club! We had over 3 other couples over for a little viewing party with bacon, frittatas, fruit salad and coffee cake. The food turned out well (everyone loved my aunt’s coffeecake recipe!) and the show was fun to watch all together. Figure I won’t have the opportunity to have people over much this semester so better to have them over now while I am still sort of together.
Then we headed to College Mall for some much needed shopping. Got a great fall top and skirt (50% off) that I will hopefully be able to put to use during Round Tables this week. Back at the house we got a little more studying in before we headed out to our friend’s house for game night.
We had a blast at her place; meeting a lot of the people in the German department, making/eating pizza and playing Catchphrase and Scattergories. We didn’t leave until about 11 that gave us enough time to get a little bit more reading done before bed. One more day until class, got to push through to the finish.
