On the same day to boot! But like Ted from How I Met Your Mother I'm jumping ahead of myself. (Side note: TV’s
back! Well, it never really left; it just got really boring there for the
summer.)
On Monday, we had our poster
presentation/networking event. I talked to a few employers and a lot of
Leadership Walton students. Specifically, stressed out freshmen students who
were trying to figure out what to do with their lives. My response: “Chill, you’ve
got nothing but time,” then I would pause dramatically and say, “The dude
abides.”[1]
I also had an Advisory Board meeting, which is a
group of MBA students who get together with our administration and go over
ideas, problems and positives. The gist of this meeting: the lockers were a
great addition and we’re not getting a soda fountain to replace the worthless
pop machines. Turns out, the administration doubts we’d be good about paying on
an honor system…that’s probably a correct assumption. We are poor grad
students, after all.
Tuesday was career fair day. I followed up on
some of the contacts I made at the networking event and learned about good
opportunities and you will all be the first
know if anything comes of them. But, by far, the coolest thing I did on Tuesday
was hang out with a group of Panamanian undergraduates here to visit our
logistics department. Some other GWIB (Graduate Women in Business) members and
I had dinner with them and some of our logistics professors and then we fed
them popcorn and ice cream and showed them The
Social Network. They got pretty excited about seeing the movie and,
honestly, I never really get tired of that movie either. But then again I love
anything written by Aaron Sorkin: The
American President; Sports Night; The West Wing; Charlie Wilson’s War.
Okay, so I never really liked Studio 60 on
the Sunset Strip, but Sports Night
more than offsets that show. Also, the children’s choir singing “Creep”; it’s
the little things. Anyway, the students were great to talk to and they asked a
bunch of questions about everything. They even put up with my rusty Spanish.
So the rest of the week has been a bit dull. Just
classes, homework, GA work and group meetings. The semester is really starting
to roll. Now it just needs to learn how
to rock.[2]
[1]
Actually, I never said that last part. I assumed they were all too young /business-y
to get a Big Lebowski reference.
[2] I
know it’s bad but I just couldn’t resist it.
