MBA Experience

Woah, it's been a while. Anyone still out there? It's meeeeeeee, I'm still here :)

What should I talk about? School started again. I'm very happy with my courses. These are subjects I actually WANT to take. I'm excited to learn the material - I even started reading one of the assigned readings a month early. That never happens.

I'm excited to meet like-minded people who wanted to take the same classes as I did. I went a "non-finance" route, so there are some folks from my cluster who I have zero classes with. There are also other people from my cluster who are in almost all my classes, which is really exciting too.

The job was good! It wasn't one of those internships that leads to an offer, like many internships do, but I knew that going into the position so I'm fine with that. I am on the hunt for the full time offer now.

Ok, that's good for now. I will come back soon and write more.

You know you have the right internship when you:

• Can't wait for it to start
• Really like your boss
• Want to negotiate working more weeks this summer instead of fewer weeks
• Are actually excited to work
• Make other people jealous over said excitement

I'm really jazzed about my summer. Unfortunately, finals are getting in the way of enjoying this beautiful weather right now.

I'm a bit nervous for a few of my finals. My study group took a 'divide and conquer' strategy with group assignments this semester and I basically blew off my operations class. It was a painful class for me. So, now I'm not so ready for the final but I am lucky in the fact that it's the last final of the semester as well so I may have more time to study for it. And, by some stroke of magic, I also did really well on the midterm, so that provides a bit of a buffer anyhow.

I'm really bummed that the first year is basically over. However, lots of my classmates will be in the city this summer, including Dirty Martini (Yesssss), which is good. I will, hopefully, get to keep in touch if these kids are not working 100 hours per week.

Sometimes life is really hard. I have it so easy. I am truly blessed with opportunities that most people have only dreamed of. I’m at a great school. I have a dream internship this summer. I have a great family and great friends. I am healthy and happy.

Yet, today, I had to do one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do - I had to tell my sister if she didn’t get her son (my nephew) under control that her son was going to die. Does anyone want to hear their child is going to die? Probably not. Do they need to hear it? Most definitely.

My nephew is a good kid, but now he just turned 15 and he’s seriously, and quickly, headed down the wrong path. He just went to court for trying to steal from a department store. He drinks. He smokes pot. Now he’s taking hallucinogens. He skips school. He has D’s and F’s on his report card. And did I mention he’s 15?

I’m not a parent and I never meddle in other people’s business, but this is my family here and my sister is thick-headed. She’d rather pretend that nothing is wrong or that problems fix themselves than to deal with these issues. Unfortunately, if you have a stupid 15 year kid old who’s getting no direction from his family, he’s going to do something stupid because at 15, teen-people make really bad decisions.

So, I had to tell her, in a not so nice way, that my nephew was going to overdose on drugs and die if she didn’t step in and perform an intervention in this kids’ life. And then I said I hope she was prepared to deal with his death if she doesn’t do anything about it.

Goddamn that was hard. I’m never that dramatic, but this is serious shit here. In 6 months this kid’s life has completely gone down the tubes and it’s only been getting worse and worse. I tried to speak with him about it because he thinks I’m the ‘cool aunt’ but for fuckssake this kid will not listen. So, if anyone has experience with troubled teens and would like to offer up any suggestions let me know because I’m taking this kid down to Chinatown in about 3 weeks when I go back to LA.

I was just reading an article about an execitive coach (for one of my classes), and there is a great quote I just wanted to share:

"It’s easier to get un-fucked up than to understand why you are fucked up, so why don’t you just get un-fucked up?"

I can definitely relate to that sentiment.

I am in total denial that I am returning to classes today. Spring break was wayyyyy too short. Oi.

Wikipedia - This site is just amazing. I use it almost every day.
Google - I mean, really, do I even need to list Google? It's automatic.
Bloglines - How else would I keep track of my 38 feeds? I'd add more but I just don't have enough time in the day
Pitchfork - the authority for indie rock
HopStop - a flawless guidance through the NYC transit system... essential for newbies
Woot - such a crafty little company with the funniest contests ever

What web sites would you die without? Let me know.

I know, I know, long time no post. Whatever.

Here's the update: this semester is way easier than last. It's like night and day. I can actually have a social life. I don't need to do homework every single day... and I can go look for a job.

Speaking of the job front, lots of people have jobs now. Lots of people, such as myself, do not but I'm not too stressed over it yet. I will go into panic mode if I don't have anything by April but right now it's not a big deal. I didn't go through on-campus recruiting like many of my classmates because I'm just not interested in working for one of the big companies right now. They don't excite me whatsoever, so I'm holding out for something that better suits me. Wish me luck.