When September Ends

Time has clearly gotten away from me! The last few weeks went by in a flash. There were more cases, more deliverables and more readings than I even care to remember. Eventually they all start to blur together.

Anyway, instead of playing catch-up and attempting to write about everything that’s happened since the time of my last post (which was already a month late to begin with!), I’ll just start anew!

The sheer amount of work involved for classes has been increasing week to week! Sometimes it makes me anxious seeing the list of things I have to do each week grow longer and longer, but we are all pulling through somehow.  It’s just a matter of finding the time and actually getting work done!

We’ve been having our executive luncheons for a few weeks now. So far I’ve attended two! The first was with Mr. Robert Wilson of W.R. Grace. He spoke with us in depth about his career, and then we discussed some of the Marketing cases we had already worked on. It was interesting to get the “outside perspective” on some of these cases. My second luncheon was with Tara Aliotta. She is a partner of the insurance practice at PwC, and the lunch was a total blast! 

Along with all of the usual school commitments, I am the secretary for the Marketing Club, and I’m also a student representative for Section 36 (along with my friend Habib!). We had our first meeting with Dan Volchok this week, and spent most of the hour airing our grievances and stressing out about classes. Typical graduate school stuff, you know?  There’s not much you can do, but it was nice to have Dan listen to us for over an hour. And feed us pizza! You can never turn down free food as a totally-broke grad student. 

This doesn’t mean the social events have slowed down in any way!  A few weeks ago, I went to my first hockey game ever!  I was very fortunate to be invited to watch the Bruins opening game – even as a first-time observer, the championship banner ceremony was thrilling to see!

The 2011 Championship banner!

My friend from college was in town unexpectedly the weekend before that, so I was thrilled to meet with him for dinner! I haven’t seen him since graduating college (in 2007). It was so nice to catch up and talk about all the silly things from way back when.

With my college buddies!

Our class has bonded very quickly, and weekends are usually spent celebrating a classmate’s birthday or commiserating over all the homework.  Some of us went to play paintball after classes.  And it was Keri’s birthday this past Saturday! 

 

With the birthday girl!

After our paintball adventure!

This coming week will be a true test of my endurance – I have my regular class schedule, and then on top of that: an Accounting quiz, two executive luncheons, two networking meetings, a Marketing presentation (for which I’m a presenter), a MIR case study, work at Victoria’s Secret and a HR case study. Sometime between all of that, I hope to find time to go to the gym. And possibly sleep.

To make matters even more chaotic, we are having a holiday readiness meeting this coming Saturday at Victoria’s Secret! Yikes! It’s only the middle of October. Why are we doing this already…?


*The views expressed in this blog are not necessarily those of Northeastern University, its faculty, staff or affiliates and are solely the opinion of Esther Bliedung.