Alright, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I swear I haven’t forgotten! Other than school work, I’ll get to that in a bit, I’ve been extremely busy. Among my computer hard drive crashing, taking Jim’s car towed to the mechanic not once but twice, and my sister coming home from Montana, there has just been a lot on my plate right now. But now that I’ve finished my Living Document 1 assignment (45 pages!!!), the accounting annual report group paper, the marketing group presentation, and all of the midterms are over; I finally have a second to write.
It certainly hasn’t been a walk in the park, but I’m enjoying my time as an MBA student. I’m keeping up with the work, but I’m not keeping up with my stress management. It’s getting to be a very stressful time of year – not just the holidays but 4 people in my family have upcoming birthdays (including yours truly), full-force wedding planning, upcoming WMBA events, and starting to stage our color guard show, and I am definitely not doing enough to shake the stress (please read line above about the car again!!!) Anyway, here’s a breakdown of last week and the beginning of this week.
Wednesday
On Wednesdays, I normally have MIR then Marketing; however, this week MIR was cancelled because the professor was sick. Instead of using this time to sleep, I worked on my Living Document, my HR paper which is currently 45 pages long. After I went to marketing where three groups were presenting Coca-Cola’s corporate responsibility programs. All teams showed the depth of their knowledge and came prepared with compelling arguments.
After Marketing, my team met to work on last minute corrections to our accounting annual report paper. The time went by extremely quickly. I had to leave at 4:00pm in order to get to color guard rehearsal in time, so two of my team members stayed and had the paper bound a reprographics. Thanks again, guys!
Thursday
Today was the big day for our accounting paper! I love the feeling of handing in a paper because it’s no longer on my plate.
But my work was not done today. In the afternoon, my group met to go over our marketing presentation for the Digital Angel case. Because of the long weekend, we wanted to get this project done before we left on Thursday, so we were at school until 4:30pm. Thanks again to the Career Center for letting us borrow one of their rooms to work on this project.
Friday
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| The tasting room at the brewery (photo courtesy of Tracey Shields) |
Friday was Veteran’s Day (thank you to all of those who have served!), so we had a day off. After doing some school work in the morning, Jim and I headed up to Merrimack, New Hampshire to take a Brewmaster Tour of the Anheuser Busch brewery. This was an amazing behind-the-scenes look at the company complete with tour of the bottling facility, the quality assurance room, and a sample straight from the finishing tank. Seriously, it’s a supply chain concentration’s dream land! I’m sure by the end of the tour the tour guide was sick of Jim and I comparing the experience to Willy Wonka’s factory. After the tour, we visited Jim’s brother who lives and Merrimack and ate dinner with his nephews.
Saturday
First, a shout out to the Northeastern MBA team who competed in the MIT case competition on Saturday. I heard you all did a wonderful job of representing Northeastern!
Saturday morning was my time to work on the rest of my Living Document paper; however, it was also when Jim’s friend came back to finish our retaining wall. So amid the sound of power tools, I managed to finish the rest of my Living Document in 3 hours. I’m not going to say it was easy, but now I have a completed Living Document and retaining wall.
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| Matt playing drums for The Tree |
That night, Jim and I went to see one of our friend’s band. His band, The Tree, was performing at Precinct in Somerville, so we drove out to see him. Driving turned out to be a really bad idea. After the show, Jim’s car wouldn’t start, and we had to get it towed. Luckily, two of our friends stayed with us and waited. Thank goodness they did because it took the tow truck two hours to get there. We finally managed to get home at 2:30am. Thus started the “comedy of errors” week.
Sunday
On Sunday my parents brought us my father’s extra car for us to use while Jim’s was in the shop. This is a giant SUV that neither of us is used to driving. Naturally, I wanted to drive the monster to rehearsal.
Our rehearsal was extra-long this week (6-9) because we started staging for our competitive season. This can often be tedious for both the students and staff alike, but everyone was cooperative, which made the process easier. We were able to stage about half of the show! And when I got home, the Patriots beat the Jets!
Monday
Today my group presented for the Digital Angel case. We were assigned TV advertisement, while two other groups were assigned web 1.0 and web 2.0 advertising. It was interesting to see what everyone came up with.
Monday night continued our comedy of errors. The mechanics told Jim that his car was fine other than some corrosion around the battery that they were able to clean up. So we picked up the car and drove my father’s car back to my parent’s house. We visited Jim’s mother who lives 5 minutes down the street from my parents, and as we were leaving, Jim’s car would not go in reverse. So we had to get the car towed again, and this time we took Jim’s mother’s car home. Not a great way to end a Monday.
Tuesday
Today was the Harvest Festival at Northeastern! The MBA program hosted a Thanksgiving dinner compete with turkey and all the fixings. Many people brought deserts, and Roopsi brought an amazing Indian dish. This was a wonderful opportunity to relax with my fellow MBA candidates.
*The views expressed in this blog are not necessarily those of Northeastern University, its staff, faculty or affiliates and are solely the opinion of Amy Foley.*
