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.
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