Although I am sure to people outside of the MBA program, my life everyday looks a lot like Taz tearing through a scene, today seemed to be the epitome of it. Classes started late for me today, so I dropped Charlton off and grabbed my dry cleaning from NAWMBA so I would be ready for the case comp this week.  Then I read and wrote some emails before jumping right into the econ case on Brazil.  When my brain couldn’t take in any more information on inflation and interest rates we escaped from 1050 to go play the “beer game” simulation for ops. Everyone had a role in a 4 stage supply chain of a beer manufacturer.  I ended up with the Distributor role, and after 6 simulated weeks thought I was doing fantastically, and then a monster order came in and killed my inventory.  I had such a huge backlog by the end of the session I had to actually use a calculator to get my numbers!  Although, we didn’t end up in last place so we weaseled out of having to tidy, but as we didn’t win no cash prize for us!  And what better way to understand the bullwhip effect than to see it happen in person, over pocket change instead of in the real world when you have customers screaming at you. I had just enough time for a quick bite to eat before I had 3 informational interviews with second years regarding their internship searches and their roles in Kelley Women.  Finally at about 4:45 I got to head home and prep for another informational interview.  By the time 7 rolled around I had to unbury myself from all the emails I got over the day and try to get a handle on whats ahead.  Still getting there, is it really only Monday?

Although I am sure to people outside of the MBA program, my life everyday looks a lot like Taz tearing through a scene, today seemed to be the epitome of it.

Classes started late for me today, so I dropped Charlton off and grabbed my dry cleaning from NAWMBA so I would be ready for the case comp this week.  Then I read and wrote some emails before jumping right into the econ case on Brazil.  When my brain couldn’t take in any more information on inflation and interest rates we escaped from 1050 to go play the “beer game” simulation for ops.

Everyone had a role in a 4 stage supply chain of a beer manufacturer.  I ended up with the Distributor role, and after 6 simulated weeks thought I was doing fantastically, and then a monster order came in and killed my inventory.  I had such a huge backlog by the end of the session I had to actually use a calculator to get my numbers!  Although, we didn’t end up in last place so we weaseled out of having to tidy, but as we didn’t win no cash prize for us!  And what better way to understand the bullwhip effect than to see it happen in person, over pocket change instead of in the real world when you have customers screaming at you.

I had just enough time for a quick bite to eat before I had 3 informational interviews with second years regarding their internship searches and their roles in Kelley Women.  Finally at about 4:45 I got to head home and prep for another informational interview.  By the time 7 rolled around I had to unbury myself from all the emails I got over the day and try to get a handle on whats ahead.  Still getting there, is it really only Monday?

2 years ago 

Don’t know why I feel so on top of everything today?  Is it because I spent 4 days on the couch reading, when I wasn’t coughing my brains out or watching Say Yes to the Dress? Today I got a walk in with Addie in the morning, seemed more awake in class than usual, met with my peer coach, tweaked my resume, sent out loads of networking emails (to get GREAT responses!), got the NYC trek nailed down, started two quant problems for the assignment next week and then created charts for all my ops simulation data.  In the words of NBA Jam, “She’s on fire!” Tomorrow should be another jam packed day: with an informational interview, diversity conference prep, team meeting, and GA study session for quant.  Here’s for keeping it up!

Don’t know why I feel so on top of everything today?  Is it because I spent 4 days on the couch reading, when I wasn’t coughing my brains out or watching Say Yes to the Dress?

Today I got a walk in with Addie in the morning, seemed more awake in class than usual, met with my peer coach, tweaked my resume, sent out loads of networking emails (to get GREAT responses!), got the NYC trek nailed down, started two quant problems for the assignment next week and then created charts for all my ops simulation data.  In the words of NBA Jam, “She’s on fire!”

Tomorrow should be another jam packed day: with an informational interview, diversity conference prep, team meeting, and GA study session for quant.  Here’s for keeping it up!

2 years ago 

I wish it were that easy!  This week marks the start of the real prep outside the classroom to the conference room.  I have my first mock interview (on my own tomorrow) and then Academy Slam session on Friday.  ugh!  Really need to get pumped about this, just hard to focus on me when there is so much other stuff going on. Today was jam packed with class, emails, CARs, and then review sessions and professional development seminar.  Throw in some time working on our Operations simulation and some ad creation and tool analysis of our marketing case and you have my day in a nutshell. And its only Monday!  Gotta work in some studying time, and some more interview prep…Friday can’t get here soon enough

I wish it were that easy!  This week marks the start of the real prep outside the classroom to the conference room.  I have my first mock interview (on my own tomorrow) and then Academy Slam session on Friday.  ugh!  Really need to get pumped about this, just hard to focus on me when there is so much other stuff going on.

Today was jam packed with class, emails, CARs, and then review sessions and professional development seminar.  Throw in some time working on our Operations simulation and some ad creation and tool analysis of our marketing case and you have my day in a nutshell.

And its only Monday!  Gotta work in some studying time, and some more interview prep…Friday can’t get here soon enough

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Did I really sign up for this?  Hard to believe when I am studying for hours straight and then meeting with GCS to have a major overhaul of my resume that I voluntarily decided to do this.  I know all the second years say that once you get through the Core it gets better, but it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now. I found out today that I am behind in my off-campus search, I need to work on my interview presence, develop my CARs and start taping myself interviewing.  Oh and become a student of retail; while I am trying to keep up with 7 classes, leadership and professional development and my academy prep.  Not to mention trek planning, eating, sleeping and trying to spend time with the animals.  Really feeling the squeeze. One more full day of class before the Econ midterm.  Have to try to crank out an Operations assignment in there too.  Next week is hell week, I think we will put the Navy Seals to shame.

Did I really sign up for this?  Hard to believe when I am studying for hours straight and then meeting with GCS to have a major overhaul of my resume that I voluntarily decided to do this.  I know all the second years say that once you get through the Core it gets better, but it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now.

I found out today that I am behind in my off-campus search, I need to work on my interview presence, develop my CARs and start taping myself interviewing.  Oh and become a student of retail; while I am trying to keep up with 7 classes, leadership and professional development and my academy prep.  Not to mention trek planning, eating, sleeping and trying to spend time with the animals.  Really feeling the squeeze.

One more full day of class before the Econ midterm.  Have to try to crank out an Operations assignment in there too.  Next week is hell week, I think we will put the Navy Seals to shame.

2 years ago 

Weds Whining

I can’t believe that the week is halfway over, where did it go?  Oh that’s right I had meetings up the wazzoo, networking, reading, and studying.  If I didn’t have outlook I wouldn’t have a clue what month it was let alone the day.

Monday was a full day of class, then followed up with a marathon of Operations homework with my team.  Then I had to write up all of our answers then head back to school for the next installment of the Diversity Conference Prep series.  I showed up late, and was promptly put in a group for a practice interview, fun!  I did learn a lot but I was super discombobulated for the first few minutes.

Tuesday was more class, then office hours with Target (swoon)  I stayed for 2 hours talking with their buyers and HR and learned a lot.  Really keeping my fingers crossed.  Then we headed home to get some reading done for class, then back to the Godfrey Center for the Marketing network night with Bosch, Ecolab, Nestle, Target and more.  They had some good presentations and it allowed us some more networking time.  We didn’t go to the happy hour put on by Nestle and got home at about 8:30 but it felt like 11.  We stayed up working on classwork until 11:30ish and then headed to bed.

The alarm was set for 5:30 and I turned it off and went back to sleep for “5 minutes”  5 minutes turned into an hour and 45 and we were this close to being late to class.  I was pretty impressed that we were able to get out the door with everything in 30 minutes.  After class Charlton had a Lost in Translation meeting and I headed downstairs to the lounge to catch up on some blog reading and find out where to get an extra ticket for the football game for my brother.  We then headed to the arena, picked up his “student” ticket and then went to the bookstore to finally get some non Kelley IU gear.

We’re finally back at the house at 2:45 and we are just sitting down to lunch.  Welcome to Weds!

2 years ago 

Is it really only Tuesday?

It seems like the week has flown by, but I guess when you have “official” class 4 days a week, 2 days down is halfway through.  Today was Econ, Finance and Ops and the cases we had weren’t discussion heavy.  I think it is the calm before the storm though, I know week 4 (where the *%^$ hits the fan is coming!)

After class I had an informational interview with a second year that interned at Jewel-Osco.  He had an amazing intern experience and it was really interesting to hear about what they had him work on.  Then I came home to have to deal with the apartment’s maintenance guy painting our ceilings.  Then I had another informational interview with a category manager at Jewel to get a little different perspective on their culture and structure.  Super informative!

Then it was back to school, for the 2nd session of the Diversity Conference Training.  Another informative presentation that once again scared me beyond belief about the conference in October.  Hope I am able to prepare and get in gear by then.

Then back home for dinner, some Mad Men, a run and lots and lots of ACCTG and Finance.  Watch out Weds here we come!

**In other news…I have made the Student Admissions Council!  I am over the moon, really excited to be the point of contact for prospective Kelley students and tell them about what makes us special**

2 years ago 

Although I am sure to people outside of the MBA program, my life everyday looks a lot like Taz tearing through a scene, today seemed to be the epitome of it. Classes started late for me today, so I dropped Charlton off and grabbed my dry cleaning from NAWMBA so I would be ready for the case comp this week.  Then I read and wrote some emails before jumping right into the econ case on Brazil.  When my brain couldn’t take in any more information on inflation and interest rates we escaped from 1050 to go play the “beer game” simulation for ops. Everyone had a role in a 4 stage supply chain of a beer manufacturer.  I ended up with the Distributor role, and after 6 simulated weeks thought I was doing fantastically, and then a monster order came in and killed my inventory.  I had such a huge backlog by the end of the session I had to actually use a calculator to get my numbers!  Although, we didn’t end up in last place so we weaseled out of having to tidy, but as we didn’t win no cash prize for us!  And what better way to understand the bullwhip effect than to see it happen in person, over pocket change instead of in the real world when you have customers screaming at you. I had just enough time for a quick bite to eat before I had 3 informational interviews with second years regarding their internship searches and their roles in Kelley Women.  Finally at about 4:45 I got to head home and prep for another informational interview.  By the time 7 rolled around I had to unbury myself from all the emails I got over the day and try to get a handle on whats ahead.  Still getting there, is it really only Monday?

Although I am sure to people outside of the MBA program, my life everyday looks a lot like Taz tearing through a scene, today seemed to be the epitome of it.

Classes started late for me today, so I dropped Charlton off and grabbed my dry cleaning from NAWMBA so I would be ready for the case comp this week.  Then I read and wrote some emails before jumping right into the econ case on Brazil.  When my brain couldn’t take in any more information on inflation and interest rates we escaped from 1050 to go play the “beer game” simulation for ops.

Everyone had a role in a 4 stage supply chain of a beer manufacturer.  I ended up with the Distributor role, and after 6 simulated weeks thought I was doing fantastically, and then a monster order came in and killed my inventory.  I had such a huge backlog by the end of the session I had to actually use a calculator to get my numbers!  Although, we didn’t end up in last place so we weaseled out of having to tidy, but as we didn’t win no cash prize for us!  And what better way to understand the bullwhip effect than to see it happen in person, over pocket change instead of in the real world when you have customers screaming at you.

I had just enough time for a quick bite to eat before I had 3 informational interviews with second years regarding their internship searches and their roles in Kelley Women.  Finally at about 4:45 I got to head home and prep for another informational interview.  By the time 7 rolled around I had to unbury myself from all the emails I got over the day and try to get a handle on whats ahead.  Still getting there, is it really only Monday?

Don’t know why I feel so on top of everything today?  Is it because I spent 4 days on the couch reading, when I wasn’t coughing my brains out or watching Say Yes to the Dress? Today I got a walk in with Addie in the morning, seemed more awake in class than usual, met with my peer coach, tweaked my resume, sent out loads of networking emails (to get GREAT responses!), got the NYC trek nailed down, started two quant problems for the assignment next week and then created charts for all my ops simulation data.  In the words of NBA Jam, “She’s on fire!” Tomorrow should be another jam packed day: with an informational interview, diversity conference prep, team meeting, and GA study session for quant.  Here’s for keeping it up!

Don’t know why I feel so on top of everything today?  Is it because I spent 4 days on the couch reading, when I wasn’t coughing my brains out or watching Say Yes to the Dress?

Today I got a walk in with Addie in the morning, seemed more awake in class than usual, met with my peer coach, tweaked my resume, sent out loads of networking emails (to get GREAT responses!), got the NYC trek nailed down, started two quant problems for the assignment next week and then created charts for all my ops simulation data.  In the words of NBA Jam, “She’s on fire!”

Tomorrow should be another jam packed day: with an informational interview, diversity conference prep, team meeting, and GA study session for quant.  Here’s for keeping it up!

I wish it were that easy!  This week marks the start of the real prep outside the classroom to the conference room.  I have my first mock interview (on my own tomorrow) and then Academy Slam session on Friday.  ugh!  Really need to get pumped about this, just hard to focus on me when there is so much other stuff going on. Today was jam packed with class, emails, CARs, and then review sessions and professional development seminar.  Throw in some time working on our Operations simulation and some ad creation and tool analysis of our marketing case and you have my day in a nutshell. And its only Monday!  Gotta work in some studying time, and some more interview prep…Friday can’t get here soon enough

I wish it were that easy!  This week marks the start of the real prep outside the classroom to the conference room.  I have my first mock interview (on my own tomorrow) and then Academy Slam session on Friday.  ugh!  Really need to get pumped about this, just hard to focus on me when there is so much other stuff going on.

Today was jam packed with class, emails, CARs, and then review sessions and professional development seminar.  Throw in some time working on our Operations simulation and some ad creation and tool analysis of our marketing case and you have my day in a nutshell.

And its only Monday!  Gotta work in some studying time, and some more interview prep…Friday can’t get here soon enough

Did I really sign up for this?  Hard to believe when I am studying for hours straight and then meeting with GCS to have a major overhaul of my resume that I voluntarily decided to do this.  I know all the second years say that once you get through the Core it gets better, but it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now. I found out today that I am behind in my off-campus search, I need to work on my interview presence, develop my CARs and start taping myself interviewing.  Oh and become a student of retail; while I am trying to keep up with 7 classes, leadership and professional development and my academy prep.  Not to mention trek planning, eating, sleeping and trying to spend time with the animals.  Really feeling the squeeze. One more full day of class before the Econ midterm.  Have to try to crank out an Operations assignment in there too.  Next week is hell week, I think we will put the Navy Seals to shame.

Did I really sign up for this?  Hard to believe when I am studying for hours straight and then meeting with GCS to have a major overhaul of my resume that I voluntarily decided to do this.  I know all the second years say that once you get through the Core it gets better, but it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now.

I found out today that I am behind in my off-campus search, I need to work on my interview presence, develop my CARs and start taping myself interviewing.  Oh and become a student of retail; while I am trying to keep up with 7 classes, leadership and professional development and my academy prep.  Not to mention trek planning, eating, sleeping and trying to spend time with the animals.  Really feeling the squeeze.

One more full day of class before the Econ midterm.  Have to try to crank out an Operations assignment in there too.  Next week is hell week, I think we will put the Navy Seals to shame.

Weds Whining

I can’t believe that the week is halfway over, where did it go?  Oh that’s right I had meetings up the wazzoo, networking, reading, and studying.  If I didn’t have outlook I wouldn’t have a clue what month it was let alone the day.

Monday was a full day of class, then followed up with a marathon of Operations homework with my team.  Then I had to write up all of our answers then head back to school for the next installment of the Diversity Conference Prep series.  I showed up late, and was promptly put in a group for a practice interview, fun!  I did learn a lot but I was super discombobulated for the first few minutes.

Tuesday was more class, then office hours with Target (swoon)  I stayed for 2 hours talking with their buyers and HR and learned a lot.  Really keeping my fingers crossed.  Then we headed home to get some reading done for class, then back to the Godfrey Center for the Marketing network night with Bosch, Ecolab, Nestle, Target and more.  They had some good presentations and it allowed us some more networking time.  We didn’t go to the happy hour put on by Nestle and got home at about 8:30 but it felt like 11.  We stayed up working on classwork until 11:30ish and then headed to bed.

The alarm was set for 5:30 and I turned it off and went back to sleep for “5 minutes”  5 minutes turned into an hour and 45 and we were this close to being late to class.  I was pretty impressed that we were able to get out the door with everything in 30 minutes.  After class Charlton had a Lost in Translation meeting and I headed downstairs to the lounge to catch up on some blog reading and find out where to get an extra ticket for the football game for my brother.  We then headed to the arena, picked up his “student” ticket and then went to the bookstore to finally get some non Kelley IU gear.

We’re finally back at the house at 2:45 and we are just sitting down to lunch.  Welcome to Weds!

Is it really only Tuesday?

It seems like the week has flown by, but I guess when you have “official” class 4 days a week, 2 days down is halfway through.  Today was Econ, Finance and Ops and the cases we had weren’t discussion heavy.  I think it is the calm before the storm though, I know week 4 (where the *%^$ hits the fan is coming!)

After class I had an informational interview with a second year that interned at Jewel-Osco.  He had an amazing intern experience and it was really interesting to hear about what they had him work on.  Then I came home to have to deal with the apartment’s maintenance guy painting our ceilings.  Then I had another informational interview with a category manager at Jewel to get a little different perspective on their culture and structure.  Super informative!

Then it was back to school, for the 2nd session of the Diversity Conference Training.  Another informative presentation that once again scared me beyond belief about the conference in October.  Hope I am able to prepare and get in gear by then.

Then back home for dinner, some Mad Men, a run and lots and lots of ACCTG and Finance.  Watch out Weds here we come!

**In other news…I have made the Student Admissions Council!  I am over the moon, really excited to be the point of contact for prospective Kelley students and tell them about what makes us special**

Weds Whining
Is it really only Tuesday?

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