Goin' To the Chapel/New J-O-B!

Two weeks till the big day. God, time goes by so quickly. I've been so caught up in school and trying to find a new job my wedding day is almost here. I'm psyched though!

However, my fiance and I are more excited about my new job!!! It's a sports marketing position. Ooooh, sports! The best part of my job isn't the industry, it's my colleagues. My previous position was in sports too and it SUCKED! Be careful what you wish for. Most folks in MBA programs want (blank) pay, (blank) industry and don't value how important their co-workers are. Big mistake! I loved the people so much, I was willing to take a paycut for my new role. Luckily, I didn't have to.

Happy New Year!

Indeed, it is a happy one -- I received my grades and I'm giddy with the fact that I did better than a B- in statistics. Did I deserve the grade I got? Not based on my test scores, but I don't think I've ever spent more time on a class so maybe the professor gave me an A for effort. (No, I didn't get an A...)

Anyhow, my holidays were great. I surprised my boy with a trip to Europe and we spent Christmas through New Year's Eve touring museums, eating and sleeping. It was a very relaxing time. I love Europe. They have student discounts for everything.

After a week of R and R, I found myself back in class today. I'm taking what Stern calls winter intensives. That's not an understatement -- Three 1.5 credit courses in 4 weeks. These classes include Strategy I and II and Business Communication. We meet three days a week including Saturday or Sunday (depending on the section you take). In total, each intensive meets six times in the space of a week and a half. (The course would be a six to eight week class if we were full time students). The first half of my class today was spent on lecture; the other, a group project. Luckily, most of my group from fall semester remains in tact so the assignment was easy to pull off. The topics of these intensives are part of the Stern Core so everyone has to take them. They're also very interesting as they're nice overviews to how businesses function in order to obtain profits.

On the wedding front, we have less than three months before the big day. Soooo, we're a little behind (i.e., we have yet to print our invitations, find a ceremony musician or order the too-much-frosting wedding cake.) It'll come together, I think...

One Down, A Billion More To Go

My first semester as a part-timer is over. Cheers to me. My stat exam was hard as hell. I'm pretty sure I did just as crappy as the last one, but guess what, I don't care. I feel slightly guilty that I'm going to receive a grade I don't deserve. I've never worked harder for a B(-?)

After our exam, the class went to some bar called something Gates and we remembered the good old days of pre-term. Three months flew by so quickly. Most of us are signed up for winter intensive classes; that's three 1.5 credit courses in a month. Should be pretty intense, but I'm looking forward to learning something new. It'll be over by the time I get sick of it, I'm sure.

This morning I had a phone interview with a consumer products company. I'm really excited about this opportunity and hope something good happens. I have a second-round interview the first week of January. I found the position on Langone's career center's website. I didn't expect a call considering that I've submitted my resume to over 20 companies since October and interviewed at only one (that company by the way, has gone through some restructuring so who knows if there'll even be a job).

Okay, I really need to sleep now.

Stat This

What the hell is hypothesis testing?! I hate the letters Z, P and T. I'm going to bomb statistics yet again.

Is It Monday Already?

These last few days have been glorious. The FI and I didn't go anywhere this Thanksgiving. Since I'm no Julia Child (RIP), we ate out on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday... I saw four movies this week and rented a bunch more over the weekend. Saw "Pride & Prejudice" (B), "Harry Potter - Goblet of Fire" (A), "Chicken Little" (B) and "Rent" (A).

I did manage to be productive -- Today, I did half of my statistics homework and yesterday I worked on a group presentation that's due next Monday. I'll be in Chi-town over the weekend (wedding planning!) and didn't want to wait until the last minute to get my part done. I'm pretty nervous about it since it's for my economics class (the prof is no joke) and I get stage fright. When I have to speak before a group of 5 or more, my face gets red, I start to sweat and tend to ramble. Unfortunately, my business communication classes aren't until January, so I must practice, practice, practice before Monday. FYI, the presentation will discuss Microsoft's monopoly status and we're only allowed to spend 10 minutes discussing. Luckily, this means I only have about 2 minutes to make an ass of myself.

Weekend Re-Cap

On Friday, I attended Stern's Charity Ball at Tavern on the Green and met the (in)famous Duke Kim -- ladies, he did not disappoint!!

I was pleasantly surprised by how many people showed up, especially the part-timers. My group was definitely representing. Go Purple! People ate, laughed, talked, danced and ogled. These women were wearing dresses that put L'il Kim to shame. Seriously, I doubt some of them wore underwear...

That's pretty much all the fun I had this weekend. I spent Saturday afternoon at a review session and most of today studying for the econ test tomorrow. I thought it was pretty cool that the professor offered to help us out on his day off. BUT, can you believe that after we take this test we still have an hour lecture to look forward to?? Jeez. Pray for me you guys. I want redeem myself on this one. Plus, because I went to Chicago, the prof is expecting me to kick ass. Obviously, he doesn't know me.

These Aren't Good Days

So I had an exam last week -- I thought I did well until I saw the solutions the professor provided right afterwards. Okay, don't sweat it, I'll get partial credit. Uh, no. That didn't really happen. So I royally screwed this one up. I'm not sure how because the damn thing was an open-book test. I just might be the first person ever to fail a b-school course.

I have another exam on Monday. I feel good about this one. Funny, I feel just as good as I did last week.

Anyway, on the work front: I'm still miserable. My only friend in the department just quit -- I freakin' wish. I'm getting my resume out there though and NYU has come through. I had an interview yesterday that went pretty well except I FORGOT TO TURN OFF MY DAMN CELL PHONE. Of course it rang. I just had to say excuse me and it was off in a heartbeat. Anyway, I can't take the job even if they offered it to me -- huge paycut -- $20K. It would've been a great transition for me, but I've got a wedding in a few months, tuition for a few years, not to mention bills and rent. A fellow student correctly pointed out the fact that I'm getting an MBA and one of the perks that should come along with those fancy letters are a number close to six digits.