It's been awhile

There has been a lot going on in my life the past few weeks. I was MIA for most of the latter half of October studying for exams. Please don't ask me how they went. All I can say is ”Thank goodness for the final exams”. I'll admit that I was kind of lax in studying for the first half of the quarter, but now I know that I need to get my rear end in gear and really buckle down on studying.

In addition to exams, internship recruiting started last week. Our campus was inundated with companies and banks coming to give presentations to first year students. I am very fortunate in that I am recruiting for corporate finance jobs instead of banking. For those of you who don't know, those who recruit for banking usually want to be Sales & Traders or Investment Bankers. Because the competition for those internships is fierce (or so we programmed to think) recruiting is hard core. They have recruiting events almost everyday, from lunch-n-learns to bank presentations to dinners. If there is a bank you really want to work for, you need to go to all of their recruiting events, which for most banks are about 7 or more. But most people have more than one bank in their sight, so they need to times 7 by the number of banks they are activity recruiting for. Since I removed myself from the recruiting scene, I only have a few presentations per week to attend. I don't know what I would do if I was recruiting banking. Probably attach an IV to my arm and have it drip coffee.

Outside of school things have been awesome. I have a part time job working at the Chicago Bear's home games as a dessert cart girl for the executive suites. It is the easiest job ever! We go to a suite with our dessert cart, the people in the suite file out and point to which dessert they want, and then we put it on a plate and hand it to them. Yeah, really, that's all I do! I am in at 10am and done by 3pm. Only downside is that I don't get to see the game, but I can tell what’s going on by listening to the cheers coming from the suites.

In other news, my mom is coming to visit tomorrow! She is over in PA visiting Granddaddy and made plans to stop and see me for a few days. We're going to go to the movies and get our hair done and go to the aquarium. It’s going to be a blast!!