When I sat down at my computer to type this entry, I intended to talk about the first week of Spring classes, but something else more important should be mentioned first. I had my TV on as I was at my computer and I heard the news that the Pope had passed away. The CBS news telecast said that he was the last great figure from the 20th century to pass away and that's when the magnitude of this hit me. That man was in his position for 26 years (I'm only 27) and he was loved by everyone that he came in contact with...that's an amazing legacy. I'm not Catholic, but as a religious person, I can respect what he meant to the 1 billion Catholic people around the world. My condolences go out to them in this time of sorrow and I guess one can take solace in the fact that he's now moved on to a better place after his longtime illnesses. RIP to Pope John Paul II.
Yesterday was the end of our first week of Spring quarter classes and this has been one long week. Instead of having our usually break from classes on Wednesday, we had classes on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, which damn near knocked me out for the count. It was nice having Monday off, but that usual midweek break goes a long way toward giving me extra time to prepare for the second half of the week's classes. I don't know how people at other schools can do 4 straight days of classes every week...it's probably nice to have 3 day weekends every week, but, if I were in their shoes, I'd probably be so daggone tired by the end of each Thursday that I wouldn't be able to enjoy having Friday through Sunday off. This quarter might be particularly tough for me because I have two education school classes on Wednesdays now instead of having the entire day to study for Thursday's courses. I'm hoping to start a change in my study habits this weekend to lessen the effects of that by getting through all of my readings through Tuesday by the end of the weekend. That way, I'll be able to get ahead on all of my readings and will have less worry about that as the week progresses. *crossing my fingers in hopes that it'll work*
Also, I had my second rounds with Accenture yesterday in their SF office. Taking that trip with me were my roomie Detavio and one of our other classmates Mano. We each had three interviews and, after trading notes on how things went, we decided that we'd all pretty much had the same experience. We'd done well with two of our interviews, but thought that we'd bombed our interviews with the other interviewer, who was the same person for all three of us. It was wild how it went down...my first two interviews were great and I felt like I handled the cases very well, so i was pretty confident going into my third interview. Then, all of that became shaky when the 3rd interviewer hit me with a question about natural vs. non-natural monopolies...after that, he gave me a case that wasn't too bad, but I was still off-balance from his initial question so I think my performance on that case was shaky at best. My classmates told me that they'd had the exact same experience with that interviewer. I've learned throughout this whole process to not think too much about the possible outcome of these interviews before I hear the final word. All that does is create extra worry and, given that I know I did the best that I could, the only thing for me to do now is hope that the interviewers were impressed. Eh, if I don't get it, then it wasn't meant to be and I'll charge it to the game...if I do get it, then 'll have a reason to celebrate a little in the midst of all the classwork I'll be swimming in next week.
Posted by marquis930 at April 2, 2005 08:32 PM