Catching up

It's been an intense first few weeks back, man.

This is what my course load looks like this semester:
Monday -- Decision Modeling
Tuesday -- Financial Management (corporate finance)
Wednesday -- Business law, Operations Management
Thursday -- Information Systems

Did I tell y'all that the syllabus for Information Systems is 19 pages long? Or that almost all these classes require group projects? Or that decision modeling is a fancy way of saying "all the Microsoft Excel you never wanted to learn?" Or that business law is only 2 months long?

Seriously, who makes business law an 8 week course? Clemson, do better. I had my first test today on chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7, and that over there is what my cheat sheet looked like. That's just the front. And yes, I wrote that all by hand. And yes, I am still concerned about my grade.

Fortunately none of my classes really seem to be hard. It's a lot of information, but it's not difficult information, and while you could argue that one is just as bad as the other I'm gonna try to look at this glass like it's half full. It would be great if it was actually full, but I take what I can get.

This semester, my goal is get all As. Like I've complained 10,000 times before, all of us MBA students have to maintain a 3.0 or get kicked out of the college, and I'd really like to get mine GPA a little further away from that line. All A's would be awesome. But I will settle for 3 A's and 2 B's. I've already picked out my "okay to get a B in" classes. Finance is one of them. I don't care if it's an 80 as long as it's a B.

Really, I'm just letting you guys know I'm alive. The saucy stuff will return soon.

I am also now officially looking for internships! If y'all know of anywhere looking to hire you should totes let me know about it. And/or put in a good word for me. I like my nepotism like I like all things that could eventually lead to your downfall and/or otherwise get you in trouble: in moderation.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I was going to go for a less specific title, considering a lot of my friends aren't Christians and some of them celebrate multiple new year holidays, but then I said no. I learned that working at American Eagle as a lady screamed at me for wishing her a happy holiday (how do you get more generic than that?!) because, "Not everyone celebrates!"

She then asked me for gift receipts. Long story short, you can't please anyone, so I'm just gonna please myself.

That was poorly worded. Moving on!

My holiday's been great, thank you for asking, mostly because all of my favorite people came home. My friends came back from California/DC/Virginia/France/everywhere else in the world. My sister and her boyfriend came up from Savannah and my midwest family finally made it back to the southeast from Texas/Colorado. My dad was even around for a few days before the holidays! That never happens! Ah! I even got a few holiday messages from some people I hadn't expected to hear from. It was awesome.

I hope you all have had a great holiday/break season, and didn't do anything I wouldn't do on New Year's. I'm bringing in 2013 with a 3.0 GPA (I'm not getting kicked out of grad school!), marathon Simming, and a deviated septum.

Yes, you read right. I have a slightly deviated septum. No, I do not snort cocaine. Apparently it's pretty common (and natural) for a person's septum to be more to one side without recreational/habitual drug use, but according to my doctor mine is most likely the reason why I can't breathe 90% of the time. Or smell. Or get restful sleep. And that probably has a lot to do with why I snore like a moose. I'm going to an ear/nose/throat specialist sometime soon, and fingers crossed I won't have to have surgery on my septum/tonsils/sinuses/adenoids. Seriously. Cross your fingers.

I'm not really one for new year's resolutions, but this year I'm going to pick up some form of exercise. I say this every year, or at least most of them, but this time I mean it. Yes. And I want to read at least 35 books (already started one). I also saw a really cute thing online about writing down everything good, happy, and otherwise memorable thing that happens to you over the year and keeping it in a jar. At the end of the year, you read them all. I've already started writing things down.

And that's about it! According to a magical crossword I found online the 3 things that are coming to me this year are love, beauty, and experience. Really I had a tie between experience and popularity, but I think experience sounds more grown up. These things are all open to interpretation, so if any of y'all can interpret them let me know because I'm mad confused about it.

Starting next Wednesday I'll be back in class and the MBA battle will continue. One semester down, 2 and a half to go. December 2013, here I come!