Wow, it sure has been a while since I made an entry to this blog. I guess I'm always so busy that it's hard to find time to write. I'm just doing so much here at Stanford that I find myself being pulled in a million different directions and I've barely got time to sleep. Shoot, I barely even get a chance to call my mother anymore and, before I left for Cali, I would do that every other day or so. I might as well get started with the update...
Right now, I'm in the middle of my third week of classes and they've been throwing work at us hard and fast. I had no idea that the workload would be heavy. I'm excited because I'm learning a lot of new stuff from scratch, but it's intimidating because I feel like I'm always behind in my readings or my classwork. During the first week, I tried to do every bit of reading and every study question that was assigned, but I quickly learned that it isn't possible to sustain that over the course of the quarter...at least if I want to ever sleep. Oh yeah, I guess I should talk about the quarter system. We've got three academic quarters per school year: Fall, Winter, and Spring, and we will take around 5 classes per quarter, which is what i've got now. Classes are held on Monday and Tuesday and then Thursday and Friday, with Wednesday being our day off. i thought that schedule was weird at first, but now I'm thankful for it because I wouldn't be able to get by without that day off in the middle of the week. Business school is seriously one of the most exhausting things that one can undertake. I think it is due to the constant mental stimulation of class and homework and, in addition, you're always socializing, networking, and talking to companies, so it just weras you down after a while.
Before I go hit the books, I've got to say a little something about the Black Business Student Association retreat that went down over the weekend. Our group left cmapus on Friday after to go to a place called Pajaro Dunes, which is a community of beachhouses a little more than an hour from campus. before the retreat, I knew a few of the second year students in the BBSA and my goal was to get to know all of them and my classmates a little better. We spent all day Saturday doing activities were we told each other about our backgrounds and had discussions about our fears, challenges, and concerns about business school. I already thought that everyone here at the GSb was on point, but, after that retreat, I realized that the Black folks at this school are truly remarkable. As the folk say in church, most of the BBSA kids here have "come from a mighty long way" and the fact that we're all here is a testament to the value of hard work, perseverance, and the power of prayer. I left that retreat feeling an immense sense of pride to be a Black student at Stanford GSB and I know that the BBSA (in addition to others in the business school) will have my back consistentl over the course of the next two years and beyond.
Posted by marquis930 at October 13, 2004 04:21 AM