Where have I been???

I know it has been MONTHS since I last posted on here and all I can say is “I’ve been busy”. Besides, I’ve seen or talked to most of you since my last posting in January so you know what I’ve been up to. For those of you I haven’t spoken with, here is a brief update: I ended the internship recruiting season with a couple offers and chose at accept an internship offer with BS in New York City. I will be a part of their financial management associate program working on a top secret project with the legal department. Well, the project isn’t top secret, but I’m not sure if I can tell you about it. Anyway….

After the winter quarter I spent my spring break volunteering with Presidential Classroom in DC. I’ve been volunteering for a week for the past four years and am usually fine, but I was worn out this year, you know, since I had just finished exams and was recovering from the beast that is called interviewing. The week after I arrived back in Chicago from DC we started our spring quarter and it was just BRUTAL. I took four classes, which generally wouldn’t be that bad, but I picked my schedule based in times that were convenient for me (no Fridays or Saturdays and as many afternoon classes as possible) without really looking at how involved the classes were and how much work was due each week. I went from having about four hours of outside class work per class for the fall and winter quarter, to nine hours spring quarter and that isn’t including a history class I took outside of the business school which required at least 20 hours of reading each week. Add on the responsibilities of being a 2007-2008 co-chair for the Financial Analysis and Treasury Group and you get a busy quarter!

So, my first year of B-school is over and I am now in New York City ready to spend 10 weeks back in the working world...And I’ actually looking forward to it. New York should be fun this summer since there are, like, 150 of my classmates here… even though about half of them are bankers so I’ll never see them, and from what I hear I’ll have some semblance of a work/life balance so I’ll be able to go out and see the sights. Once my internship is over I’m heading to Belize to lead a Random Walk trip… this is the same type of trip I took to Turkey last year before school started, but this year I get to lead the trip! It’s all beach and will be a great break from seven months of school and internship.