Whew! I had no idea that I would enjoying hanging out and doing nothing so much, but this Winter break was SO necessary. I got back to VA last monday and I was so excited that I was literally grinning from ear to ear as I approached the runway at Washington's National Airport. From the moment my friend Kendra picked me up that night, I knew I was back in my own element. I had a great time at Stanford over the course of the last 3-4 months, but it is a good feeling to be back around my family and friends and not feel like I've got to put on my "business face".
I had been seriously homesick since the beginning of September, so it was great to be able to actually have a conversation with my mom and be looking at her. Or to goof off with both of my sisters in person and at the same time. It's easy to take the little things like spending time with your peoples for granted, but being 3000 miles away from them when you're used to seeing them whenever you want is really difficult. I thought I was ready for everything when i left for Cali, but the homesickness and missing folks wasn't one of the things I'd considered. The time zone differences didn't help matters because it would be midnight here on the east coast by the time my nighttime minutes started out West. Since getting back here, I've been constantly shuttling back and forth from my mom's house out in the stixx up to the DC area so I can catch up with my friends around there that I've been missing too. I've put about 1000 miles on my rental car in the past week, so I hope I remember to get unlimited mileage on that joint or else I'm going to be short when I have to return it. I am happy to be back and it's hard to believe that I've only got 9 days left until I have to fly back to school.
One thing that I've been slacking on is preparing for case interviews. I haven't looked at any of the stuff I printed out to work on out here, so that's my next task. I've got about a month until internship interviews start, so I'm praying that i can get on point by then. I'll be writing more about that as the process starts in the middle of January.
Posted by marquis930 at December 24, 2004 07:14 PM