Natasha's Weblog

I should have stayed in bed

I’ve locked myself out of my home for the first time since school started. I am actually pretty proud of this fact as it is only two weeks to finals, and I assumed I’d start spazzing out about two weeks ago.
Micro wasn’t too bad, after we ended class a little prematurely last week. The professor sheepishly apologized again. We learned about externalities, which are affects of one person in the market on another person. Pretty interesting concept, I guess. We had our last LEAD gathering yesterday. We were supposed to roast our facilitators which might have been fun, if we’d known we’d get such an opportunity. As it is, many of us struggled trying to find ammunition. The resultant attempts were pitiful and left the facilitator awkwardly trying to figure out what was wrong with us. We also got to watch our cohort movie, which I will say with little humility, is awesome!

I attended the presentation for my first choice consulting company last night, after a short and sloppy nap in the Winter Garden. I got to talk to some folks in the Operations practice and learn more about the company. People were out of control, as expected, but not nearly as much as the banking presentations. I ended up staying to talk until 10, so I guess you could say it went well.
I finally got to wear some comfortable clothes this week. Yeah, baby, I’m rocking the jeans. So I meticulously laid my stuff out and made sure I packed our group’s paper for marketing and had my wallet, and I walked out without my keys and no cell phone. After a mild coronary and breathing into a paper bag, I was able to pull it together enough to get on the bus and, in true GSB fashion, worry about it later. Marketing was interesting, as usual. We talked about distribution channels and he gave us the data on our bidding experiment. We discussed our latest case, which most of us did wrong, but that is part of the process. We have a take-home final, which we’re all intending to do over the holiday. We do like to be optimistic, don’t we?
I think the stress is wearing on us. Everyone is kind of freaked out and they don’t look as excited to be here as they did during CORE. We’ve been taking some beatings on the self esteem, though people hopeful about next term. We are bidding on courses for next term, and I have no doubt that my classmates will sufficiently stick it to each other enough to make the bid prices outrageous. It isn’t logical. I plan on taking things that no one else wants to take. Not because they’re bad classes, but those finance folks have got a plan and next term’s agenda calls for Investments, Regression, and Macro. Sounds enthralling, no?
I’ve chucked the plan of aligning with concentrations. I have to take something that I am interested in, and since consulting companies don’t seem to care what you take, I’m going with that for the time being.