Monday
7:30 AM - woke up; the usual routine
Thoughts: Thank goodness the exam isn't during class time (8 AM).
9 AM - left the apartment to catch the bus
9:30 AM - arrived in school. Exam starts in 15 minutes.
12:30 PM - finished the exam. You might find it interesting that we had essay questions for Accounting. Went out to attend a club meeting/career panel, whichever room I land in.
1 PM - Leadership class!
3 PM - people were listless after our first ever midterm, so the class discussion was dragging. Our professor has a great antenna for sensing this and dismissed us earlier than 3 PM.
4 PM - back in the apartment; took a nap
6: 30 PM - had dinner. Started to study for Stats midterm.
8:30 PM - left the apartment for the library, where I work the midnight shift.
9 PM - start of my shift! Brought my Stats hand-outs with me in an attempt to study while at the desk.
12 AM - end of shift. Walked back to the apartment and started studying what little remained of Stats that I hadn't covered.
1:45 AM - motivated myself to read a bit for Ethics class.
Thoughts: 1, 2, 3, 4... why do we have 8 readings for class tomorrow?!!
2:30 AM - wrote this and signing off
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A Week in the Life, Day 4
Sunday
Sometime between 7-8 AM - woke up, had breakfast, cleaned around the apartment, the usual
10:30 AM - studied for Accounting midterms in earnest
12:30 PM - got distracted by the Internet
2:30 PM - back to studying
6:30 PM - finished Accounting, had dinner
7:30 PM - started my Statistics homework
9 PM - had mass at the near chapel
10 PM - back to my homework
11 PM - reviewed some Accounting notes
12 AM - stated on readings for tomorrow's class on Leadership
2 AM - sleeping time!
*Yes, I'm not a very social person, especially when it's exam time.
Sometime between 7-8 AM - woke up, had breakfast, cleaned around the apartment, the usual
10:30 AM - studied for Accounting midterms in earnest
12:30 PM - got distracted by the Internet
2:30 PM - back to studying
6:30 PM - finished Accounting, had dinner
7:30 PM - started my Statistics homework
9 PM - had mass at the near chapel
10 PM - back to my homework
11 PM - reviewed some Accounting notes
12 AM - stated on readings for tomorrow's class on Leadership
2 AM - sleeping time!
*Yes, I'm not a very social person, especially when it's exam time.
Monday, September 10, 2012
A Week in the LIfe, Day 3
Saturday
8:30 AM - got out of bed after much snoozing of the alarm and prepared for the day. I thought I still had time to study before the day's festivities, but I didn't find the time to do so!
12 PM - left the apartment to go to a tailgate
From Wikipedia:
Tailgate - a tailgate party is a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle. Tailgating often involves consuming alcoholic beverages and grilling food. Tailgate parties usually occur in the parking lots at stadiums and arenas, before and occasionally after games and concerts. People attending such a party are said to be tailgating. Many people participate even if their vehicles do not have tailgates.
At this particular day, there were tailgates all over school because there was a football home game!
2:30 PM - went back to the MBA tailgate for the clean-up shift. I volunteered for it since volunteers have free tailgate entrance -- plus, if you volunteer for all tailgates, you get a free MBA polo shirt!
8:30 AM - got out of bed after much snoozing of the alarm and prepared for the day. I thought I still had time to study before the day's festivities, but I didn't find the time to do so!
12 PM - left the apartment to go to a tailgate
From Wikipedia:
Tailgate - a tailgate party is a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle. Tailgating often involves consuming alcoholic beverages and grilling food. Tailgate parties usually occur in the parking lots at stadiums and arenas, before and occasionally after games and concerts. People attending such a party are said to be tailgating. Many people participate even if their vehicles do not have tailgates.
At this particular day, there were tailgates all over school because there was a football home game!
Tailgate. From pegasusnews.com.
12:30 PM - registered for the MBA tailgate, where alumni and students could mingle in a cordoned-off area, with a buffet of food and drink. You usually pay for a tailgate; it's not exactly free.
1:30 PM - left the tailgate for my volunteer shift at a club concession stand. Spent a busy hour wrapping buns for cheeseburgers, hotdogs and brats in foil. I'm glad I wasn't the cashier -- as it was my first time to hear of the brat! (ie. bratwurst sandwich)
A hotdog and a brat, respectively. From Comcast.net.
3:10 PM - walked to the stadium for the game, with crowds and crowds of people.
3:30 PM - start of the game! Americans really go crazy over football.
7-8PM - the game finished somewhere in between. Would you believe that we students stood up around 95% of the game?! (roughly 4 hours!) Nevertheless, enjoyed the experience.
8:30 PM - back in the apartment. Was so, so tired after that standing-only game. But happy that our team won, of course.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
A Week in the Life, Day 2
Friday
7 AM - woke up. It dawned on me that I had to be at school at 9 AM for a guest company lecture. I usually allot 30 minutes for the walk to school.
9 AM - made it on time for the session. I've been making it to school just in time recently. Americans are very strict about time, so just in time isn't good enough.
10 AM - lecture finished. It was definitely interesting and was given by a company VP. The VP talked about future trends and current innovations their company was implementing in the transportation sector. I'd like to apply for an internship at this company, but I know they don't sponsor foreigners. I still might though.
10:30 AM - I should be reading my case book or studying for midterms, but I'm at the business school library, checking email, going through Facebook and typing the preceding blog post.
11:30 AM - had a case interview practice session, courtesy of the Consulting Club. I got the club president as my interviewer. Case interviews are the norm for finance and consulting people, but it's slowly being used for other roles as well. I'm not into finance and consulting, but I'd like to practice more cases because they build up your problem-solving and analytical skills. If you're a master at case interviews, then you'd be confident for any interview.
12:30 PM - walked back home for lunch
1:30 PM - tried to study for the Accounting midterm but fell asleep in the middle of a chapter (yet again)
2 PM - woke up and realized that I'd fallen asleep. Thought that it would be better to go to the library to study. Besides, I needed to print out some practice tests and problem sets for Accounting and Stats.
3 PM - I'm glad that we grad students have a large print quota. I must've printed a hundred sheets today. I really find it hard to concentrate (I have a short attention span when it comes to classes and studying) that it takes me 3 hours to get through two of the Accounting chapters we've covered. Decided not to go to the Stats review class, which was supposed to be at 3:30 PM.
6:30 PM - walked home for dinner. It was raining outside. Checked emails and Facebook then grabbed my Accounting class hand-outs and some food to snack on in the library.
7:30 PM - went back to the library and dove through the problem sets and hand-outs, with many a break to rest. Next time, I'll do the problem sets earlier so I won't have to go through everything in one go.
11 PM - I was trying to motivate myself to go on solving when a voice came on the intercom announcing that the library was closed. No choice but to go back home. It was still raining, but there was a strong wind this time. It was a pretty awful walk for me (I was wishing for mittens and a hood), and made me think of what it will be like in the winter.
12 PM - Football home game tomorrow and there's a drumline event on campus at this time. Decided not to go after that very cold walk. I'd rather stay inside under the blankets and rest my tired eyes. There'll be another home game after all.
7 AM - woke up. It dawned on me that I had to be at school at 9 AM for a guest company lecture. I usually allot 30 minutes for the walk to school.
9 AM - made it on time for the session. I've been making it to school just in time recently. Americans are very strict about time, so just in time isn't good enough.
10 AM - lecture finished. It was definitely interesting and was given by a company VP. The VP talked about future trends and current innovations their company was implementing in the transportation sector. I'd like to apply for an internship at this company, but I know they don't sponsor foreigners. I still might though.
10:30 AM - I should be reading my case book or studying for midterms, but I'm at the business school library, checking email, going through Facebook and typing the preceding blog post.
11:30 AM - had a case interview practice session, courtesy of the Consulting Club. I got the club president as my interviewer. Case interviews are the norm for finance and consulting people, but it's slowly being used for other roles as well. I'm not into finance and consulting, but I'd like to practice more cases because they build up your problem-solving and analytical skills. If you're a master at case interviews, then you'd be confident for any interview.
12:30 PM - walked back home for lunch
1:30 PM - tried to study for the Accounting midterm but fell asleep in the middle of a chapter (yet again)
2 PM - woke up and realized that I'd fallen asleep. Thought that it would be better to go to the library to study. Besides, I needed to print out some practice tests and problem sets for Accounting and Stats.
3 PM - I'm glad that we grad students have a large print quota. I must've printed a hundred sheets today. I really find it hard to concentrate (I have a short attention span when it comes to classes and studying) that it takes me 3 hours to get through two of the Accounting chapters we've covered. Decided not to go to the Stats review class, which was supposed to be at 3:30 PM.
6:30 PM - walked home for dinner. It was raining outside. Checked emails and Facebook then grabbed my Accounting class hand-outs and some food to snack on in the library.
7:30 PM - went back to the library and dove through the problem sets and hand-outs, with many a break to rest. Next time, I'll do the problem sets earlier so I won't have to go through everything in one go.
11 PM - I was trying to motivate myself to go on solving when a voice came on the intercom announcing that the library was closed. No choice but to go back home. It was still raining, but there was a strong wind this time. It was a pretty awful walk for me (I was wishing for mittens and a hood), and made me think of what it will be like in the winter.
12 PM - Football home game tomorrow and there's a drumline event on campus at this time. Decided not to go after that very cold walk. I'd rather stay inside under the blankets and rest my tired eyes. There'll be another home game after all.
Friday, September 7, 2012
A Week in the Life, Day 1
I've been in the MBA program over a month now, and I think it would be interesting for you guys to see what we MBA students have been up to in school. Yesterday was one of the busiest and most tiring days we've had, so I just wanted to give you a quick rundown of activities. I'll try to do 7 consecutive days' worth of posts (much like Tiger Mom's daughter tigersophia); let's see how long I can keep up.
Thursday
7:00 AM - woke up (after 7.5 hours of sleep, which is a lot for this week). prepared to leave. cooked and ate rice and omelette for breakfast (have a hard time going through the morning without breakfast). checked email and Facebook --I get such a lot of emails everyday; it's more stressful than work email, honestly. I chat with my family on FB everyday.
thoughts: have to know which company booths to target on this afternoon's career search so I have some research to do (isn't as easy as it reads). have to read ethics articles that I fell asleep on last night. don't forget that meeting with an org president at lunch.
9:30 AM - walked to school, toting my padfolio (leather folio thing which you bring around career fairs to make you look professional) and pumps. A walk from our apartment to school takes 15-25 minutes, depending on how fast you're going (and how late you are to class). I always keep missing the bus which swings by our apartment block. If I didn't miss the bus, I'd be in school in less than 10 minutes. Went down to the lockers to store my career fair props.
10 AM - statistics class. This is a 2-hour class with a 10-minute break in the middle.
11:50 AM - class dismissed.
12 PM- met with the org president to discuss an idea I had for our club. I felt really bad when I told her I had to go home for lunch since she (kind of) expected that we'd have lunch together. I told her that I had to change clothes (smart casual to business formal) for the career fair in the afternoon.
1245 PM- procrastinated and tried to take a quick nap.
1PM - had lunch at home (left-over omelette and dessert). Changed my large silk bag to a smaller leather bag. Read through the ethics articles.
2 PM- saw how little time I had left to research on companies for the career fair. Leveraged (yes, I love that word) the power of Google and Wikipedia to do quick company background checks. I'm proud to say that I had done quick research on 15 companies, and was able to build my target list of 5 (yes, only 5) companies.
thoughts: don't forget to print your resume for the career fair!!!
2:30PM- realized that I hadn't changed yet and that I might be late for class
2:45PM - flew out the door of our apartment for the long walk
3PM - made it on time. Ethics class.
5PM - went to the locker room to change shoes and get my padfolio. Nearly forgot to print my resume. Another long walk to the career fair venue.
5:20 PM - oh wow, the venue is just crowded with people! A lot of business undergrads and MBAs jostling through the room, long lines and harried recruiters. I got 2 I-think-I-did-well experiences, 2 go-online-and-check-our-website receptions and 1 false lead.
6:30 PM- called it a night, met with my friends. We agreed to go out for ice cream.
7:30 PM- went out for frozen yogurt, with the buy-one-get-one coupons in the school planner giveaway I got during org night. Mistakenly filled a sample cup with about a cone's worth of yogurt, which was hilarious.
8:30 PM - drove downtown to a pub for a birthday party of 3 MBA girls
9:45 PM - got out after greeting the girls and exchanging a few stories with the people who came. really tired at this point, but we wanted to check out the food expo on campus (ie. free food samples)
1030PM - got at the food expo area, and was disappointed to see that there were no booths around. Those undergrads must've finished off the food. There were students still around, lying on the grass,
watching an open-air film showing.
11 PM - got back to the apartment. Tried to read a few pages of a case book for a case marathon the following day. Fell asleep while reading, with the lights turned on.
Thursday
7:00 AM - woke up (after 7.5 hours of sleep, which is a lot for this week). prepared to leave. cooked and ate rice and omelette for breakfast (have a hard time going through the morning without breakfast). checked email and Facebook --I get such a lot of emails everyday; it's more stressful than work email, honestly. I chat with my family on FB everyday.
thoughts: have to know which company booths to target on this afternoon's career search so I have some research to do (isn't as easy as it reads). have to read ethics articles that I fell asleep on last night. don't forget that meeting with an org president at lunch.
9:30 AM - walked to school, toting my padfolio (leather folio thing which you bring around career fairs to make you look professional) and pumps. A walk from our apartment to school takes 15-25 minutes, depending on how fast you're going (and how late you are to class). I always keep missing the bus which swings by our apartment block. If I didn't miss the bus, I'd be in school in less than 10 minutes. Went down to the lockers to store my career fair props.
10 AM - statistics class. This is a 2-hour class with a 10-minute break in the middle.
11:50 AM - class dismissed.
12 PM- met with the org president to discuss an idea I had for our club. I felt really bad when I told her I had to go home for lunch since she (kind of) expected that we'd have lunch together. I told her that I had to change clothes (smart casual to business formal) for the career fair in the afternoon.
1245 PM- procrastinated and tried to take a quick nap.
1PM - had lunch at home (left-over omelette and dessert). Changed my large silk bag to a smaller leather bag. Read through the ethics articles.
2 PM- saw how little time I had left to research on companies for the career fair. Leveraged (yes, I love that word) the power of Google and Wikipedia to do quick company background checks. I'm proud to say that I had done quick research on 15 companies, and was able to build my target list of 5 (yes, only 5) companies.
thoughts: don't forget to print your resume for the career fair!!!
2:30PM- realized that I hadn't changed yet and that I might be late for class
2:45PM - flew out the door of our apartment for the long walk
3PM - made it on time. Ethics class.
5PM - went to the locker room to change shoes and get my padfolio. Nearly forgot to print my resume. Another long walk to the career fair venue.
5:20 PM - oh wow, the venue is just crowded with people! A lot of business undergrads and MBAs jostling through the room, long lines and harried recruiters. I got 2 I-think-I-did-well experiences, 2 go-online-and-check-our-website receptions and 1 false lead.
6:30 PM- called it a night, met with my friends. We agreed to go out for ice cream.
7:30 PM- went out for frozen yogurt, with the buy-one-get-one coupons in the school planner giveaway I got during org night. Mistakenly filled a sample cup with about a cone's worth of yogurt, which was hilarious.
8:30 PM - drove downtown to a pub for a birthday party of 3 MBA girls
9:45 PM - got out after greeting the girls and exchanging a few stories with the people who came. really tired at this point, but we wanted to check out the food expo on campus (ie. free food samples)
1030PM - got at the food expo area, and was disappointed to see that there were no booths around. Those undergrads must've finished off the food. There were students still around, lying on the grass,
watching an open-air film showing.
11 PM - got back to the apartment. Tried to read a few pages of a case book for a case marathon the following day. Fell asleep while reading, with the lights turned on.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Which MBA? Online Fair on September 5th-6th
Register at the below link and get a chance to win an iPad when you "visit" 5 or more schools!
http://registermbafair.whichmba.com/
http://registermbafair.whichmba.com/
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