Saturday, April 30, 2011

My First Offer


After the long weekend it’s right back at the corporate residency search on Tuesday. 

Following Supply Chain, I quickly change and catch the commuter rail out to Lynn, Massachusetts for my interview with GE Aviation. Thank goodness for GE’s kind employees. Apparantly, the commuter rail stops right at GE but only certified employees are allowed to exit the train at that location. After hearing of my destination, a GE employee riding the T with me offered to help me get off the train. That was a close one! I wait at a guard station until a police officer arrives to escort me through the GE Aviation site to the visitor’s center. I guess that’s what I get for interviewing at a company that manufactures jets for the military. How exciting!

My interview goes well (I hope) and the position ends up sounding much different (and better!) than what I was originally told. I leave hoping to get a call back.

That night I review my Operations assignment as I had submitted my portion to my group early so that I could attend my interview.

I also finish up the rest of my Operations and Finance homework (the last of the semester!) before preparing for my interview with Hamilton Sundstrand tomorrow.

Wednesday I anxiously survive classes before meeting a Hamilton Sundstrand representative at the Career Center for my interview. It would be neat to end up at this company because six other Northeastern students have already signed on there. Again, I feel that the interview goes well. My interviewer says to expect a call by the end of the week to set up a second interview on site next Friday (as in the day before I leave for India). I feel very honored that he was willing to alter his interview schedule to meet my travel restrictions.

That night I spend working on my Strategy readings and case.

I didn’t have to wait long for that second interview at Hamilton Sundstrand because at 7:30 am on Thursday morning I get an e-mail inviting me down. I’m thrilled, particularly considering the fact that the position seemed quite technical.

After our last Statistics and Strategy classes of the year I head over to the Curry Center for our end-of-the-year Marketing Club picnic. While we originally had the noble intention of holding this event on the grasses of the Boston Common, the City has not quite given up on winter and it is raining today. But we enjoy sandwiches and cupcakes from Au Bon Pain and reminisce on the year that has passed by so quickly.

Friday is our final Career Management class: a joint session with the second half of our Human Resource management course. We will be getting that lovely (sarcastic) Living Document 2 back today. As this one essay is the sole source of our grade for the class, I’m a bit nervous.

After hearing about what to expect on our corporate residencies, including learning teams, site visits and a write-up, our Human Resources professor takes over to let us know what we can expect to complete with our corporate residency learning teams. The work with these teams will be a big part of our Living Document 3 that is due the week we return to class in January 2012 (that seems so far away!).

I’m feeling a bit left out of the whole conversation because I STILL don’t have a residency. I start to get anxious.

Then, the papers are returned and I get an A-/A. I’m thrilled!

Now, while I would have loved to run home, I have to stay on campus until 3:00 pm for my final India trip meeting.

But the waiting is made easier when I get a phone call from GE Aviation with a job offer!!!! OH MY GOODNESS! FINALLY! It’s all I can do to calm my voice on the phone.  I am given until Wednesday to give them a final answer. A huge weight is lifted from my shoulders. I run to the Career Center to tell my adviser and the director and can’t help but to start crying.

But I don’t get much time for revelry because it’s off to meet an India-trip classmate who will be dressing me in a Saree for our meeting! Sarees and job offers! What a good Friday.

I love the rich reds and light yellows of my Saree and vow to pick one up while in India in a couple of weeks. During the meeting we discuss our case on Samsung electronics entering the Indian market, have some Indian appetizers including delicious mango lassi and a Bollywood film. After class I join a friend for some wine and dessert at Giacommo’s in the South End before we decide a huge slice of New York Pizza is necessary.

 I go home and relax for what feels like the first time in long while knowing that I will not be without a job next semester.

Saturday I’m at the library in full finals mode. I pull a 6 hour finance stint before breaking for my friend’s birthday party that night. It was super fun and a perfect reward for my day of powerhouse studying.

Sunday I’m at the library for another 6 hours of Finance and Operations review before joining my friends for Easter dinner at one of their family’s homes out in Deedham. It was so nice to get a real meal and I thoroughly enjoy the evening.

I get home that night and attempt some final Finance efforts and set the alarm for 6:00 am to hit the library for a couple of hours before our 10:50 am Finance final.  Here goes hell week!


*The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Northeastern, its staff or affiliates.

Monday, April 18, 2011

India Calling

I have finally booked my India flights! My itinerary, you ask? I depart April 30th from Boston for my flight to New Delhi (yes, I’m leaving just two days after finals are over).  I’ll spend 10 days backpacking around Northern India with a classmate, hitting Jaipur, Pushkar, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Jaisalmer before meeting our group in Delhi on May 10th.  From there we’ll spend four days with the program in New Delhi, three days in Chennai and three days in Bangalore.  On the 20th I’ll bid my group farewell and head north to Nepal for six days! On May 27th I’m home to California for as long as possible before returning to Boston to begin my corporate residency (wherever that may be).

It was nerve-racking to book tickets before having a corporate residency, but at the same time, it’s a huge relief to have that done.

The ticket purchase, combined with the arrival of my India-themed reading for our class and I’m in full-blown travel mode now.  Three weeks can’t come soon enough.

Besides all that fun jet-setting stuff, our course load continues to grow.  Monday morning I’m at the library again, fine-tuning my Supply Chain case write-up on a fertilizer company (thrilling) before setting up a communal Google Document for our Ann Taylor interdisciplinary project.

Finance passes and I head to work and then meet my Supply Chain teammate to finalize our paper. She promises to turn it in for me, as I’ll be at my interview in New Hampshire during class tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Tuesday I wake up early and try to get as much homework done as possible before leaving at noon for my interview with Transparent Language in New Hampshire.  I don’t get as much completed as I would have liked, what with prepping for the interview and getting all dolled up, but at least I start my Statistics deliverable.

The interview goes well (I think). I meet with the Social Media Manager and the General Manager for about two hours. They give me a nice run-down of the company and what I might expect to accomplish during my time there. I’m told to expect a call by the end of the week with their decision. 

Driving home that day I can’t help but get nervous.  I’m really cutting it close with my residency. I have just two and a half weeks before I’m on a plane to the other side of the world. I just have to take a deep breath and selectively ignore the looming time pressures if I hope to keep my sanity.

On my way home, since I have my Zipcar until the end of the day, I stop by Old Navy and Target to do some shopping for my India trip.  I manage to make out well: snagging some linen pants, capris, t-shirts and flip flops to help me battle the 100+ degree weather there.

That night I fight a losing battle with my attention span as I desperately try and study for my Operations quiz tomorrow and prepare for my interdisciplinary project.

Wednesday sees me living on campus- again.  I arrive at school early after waking at 6:00 am for some coffee and last minute cramming.  The quiz was more challenging than I expected, but at least my group got an A on our third Boston Globe project! After Finance I grab an energy drink and some pizza from our second Wednesday lunch and head to work.

While at work I receive an e-mail from my career adviser asking me to stop by her office as soon as I can.  While this could very well be good news, I can’t help but feel that it most definitely is not. A ball begins to form in my stomach.

After work I hop into the Career Center to see my adviser. I sit down and she proceeds to nervously tell me that she doesn’t have good news for me. Transparent Language has decided to go with someone else. Originally the company had planned for two residencies, but, with my luck, it appears as though they have decided to just have one intern.  I sit there shocked. This was a job they had told me was all but mine.  While a week ago this might have resulted in tears, I’m just too exhausted. I sit there in shock; anger and fear starting to grow.  My adviser and I talk for a bit and she tells me there is nothing I can do but wait for more jobs to be posted and prepare for my April 25th interview with Vention Medical. 

With the burden of a corporate residency not yet off my shoulders, I drag myself to the graduate lounge for some interdisciplinary project group work before breaking for my scholarship awards ceremony at 5:30 pm.

It is then that I learn I also did not get the teacher’s assistant position for the India trip. Fantastic…


The scholarship ceremony was a much bigger deal than I had expected. There were what looked to be nearly 100 people from the entire college of business.  We had an flowing supply of hors d’oeuvres and an open bar.  I meet with two of my fellow scholarship recipients as we make our rounds, chatting with our past and present professors, administration and the like, including our Strategy professor who is up for the teacher of the year award. 

During my rounds, I come up to the Associate Dean of the graduate program and she gives me a kind smile and lets me know that she heard about my interview.  Well, I guess that’s a good thing: that it’s so shocking that I don’t have a residency yet that everyone knows? Right? Right? Ok, just throw me a bone here.

We are soon seated and who is the first award recipient in this sea of people but me? I am introduced and walk up to the stage to accept my reward.  How ironic that I’m up here receiving an award as an outstanding student and I don’t yet have a residency.

I excuse myself at around 7:30 pm and my friend and I grab a frozen yogurt and put off working on our Statistics homework for an hour. 

That night I’m up past 1:30 am working on my deliverable and when it is finally time for bed, I can’t help but toss and turn fretting about what will become of me in two weeks. Ugh….

Thursday is a short class day as Strategy was canceled to give us time to work on our interdisciplinary project. After Statistics my interdisciplinary project team rushes to the lounge for a powerhouse group session.  We’re not out of the lounge until 7:30 pm. 

During our 8+ hours of work I sneak away for a few moments to partake in the student employee appreciation reception in the business office.  I make a quick ice cream sundae and grab a word with my career adviser.  She tells me that I have an invitation to interview with both GE Aviation for a customer service role and with Hamilton Sundstrand for a platform operations position. While neither is remotely related to marketing, at this point, I’ll take what I can get.  I’ll be interviewing with GE on Tuesday and Hamilton on Wednesday.

My career adviser also puts me in contact with a second year student who held a residency at GE Aviation last year to see if I might garner any useful information from her. It is comforting to know that everyone really seems to care and wants to help me get a residency.  Plus, their patience with me deserves some sort of reward.

Then it's back to the lounge with a brave face to take on group tension and mounds of work when all I can do or think about is my non-existent residency.

When the sun sets, I join two of my classmates for a drink and appetizer to unwind before heading home to practice my presentation.  I, along with one other teammate, are carrying the presentation tomorrow. Since we all finished so late, she and I will not have time to practice until 15 minutes before our presentation tomorrow morning. As if I needed any more stress.

I get less than four hours of sleep that night as I fine-tune the slides, edit the paper and practice.

Friday morning I’m up at 5:30 am to dress in my suit and get to campus early to print our slides for the panel and meet my co-presenter to practice. Then I have a breakdown.  My stress, compounded with a week of little sleep percolates inside me and I’m in a horrible mood. I snap at my teammates and have no patience. I begin to panic.  This is not me. I'm not an angry person and I usually am quite patient. I feel horrible at my attitude but don't have the energy to fix it. Please let me just pull this together for the presentation.

Luckily our presentation is smack dab in the middle- the perfect position for obscurity. In reality, I think our presentation turned out to be one of the best. When it’s over I breathe a sigh of relief.

After the presentation, awards are given for the top three groups.  Unfortunately, my team is not one of them.  But I don’t care about that because two of my groupmates and I are off to lunch at Sel de la Terre and it is nothing short of amazing. I get a delicious burger with crispy pancetta and a spicy aioli sauce, rosemary french fries, a glass of wine and a fabulous sundae of brown butter ice cream, salted caramel and candied nuts.

I go home after that and send out a somewhat desperate sounding e-mail to my executive mentor for his advice about my rather unfortunate residency situation.  I then proceed to watch about 5 episodes of Glee in a row before falling asleep. What a week…

Saturday I’m up early for a haircut, pedicure and general errand running. It’s been so long since I’ve had a spare moment to take care of 'me' that I relish in this day. I also get a response from my wonderful mentor. He sends me kind words and some helpful guidance. I’m so lucky to have been paired with him. It’s been very nice in my situation to have some outside insight from someone who has had a successful career.

Sunday is another day of relaxation. I’m just too darned tired to do anything except for my Supply Chain reading, Operations case and some India trip required reading.

Monday is a state holiday: Patriot’s Day.  Oh bless Massachusetts for all of their holidays.  I wake up early to meet my travel buddy for some India trip planning.

The Boston Marathon - Go runners, Go!


 It’s also the 115th running of The Boston Marathon today.  What a fun event that was! The whole city is shut down for the race.  Vendors line the streets hawking their free samples to thousands of onlookers.  Nearly 26,000 people ran the 26.2 miles today. It was so inspirational and the energy in the air was contagious.

That night it’s down to business.  I do some necessary trip planning: stopping my mail, pre-paying my rent for the month of May, calling my bank so they don’t block my card when charges from India start showing up, suspending my Comcast service, etc. It’s crazy how much there is to do when you’re leaving for a month!

I also start some research (even though I told myself I wouldn’t be as preparation-happy as I usually am) for my GE Aviation interview tomorrow.  Dare I say, wish me luck?

Friday, April 15, 2011

Are You There Co-Op? It's Me, Katrina

There’s no library session for me this Monday.  Instead, my morning study routine takes place from the comfort of my tiny apartment.  I fine-tune my new State Street residency application, prepare for an afternoon meeting with my Statistics team, submit my additional Strategy assignment and organize some consulting team projects- and all before my first class!

After Finance it’s right to work before my 3:30 pm meeting with my Statistics group. With our Living Document 2 due this week everyone is working ahead of schedule to ensure enough time to finish that monstrous essay.

That afternoon while explaining hypothesis tests for my write-up I learn that Fisher Price has decided not go with any students from Northeastern for their marketing co-op. While I had anticipated this (it has been, after all, nine weeks since I submitted my application) it is still is a downer to know that one less option exists for me.

However, along with this cloud, my Yahoo account gives me some positive news.  First, I’ve been invited back for a second interview at Transparent Language!  I’ll be meeting with the Social Media Manager sometime next week. How exciting! I also get an e-mail from my executive mentor offering to have me stop by his office at Gatehouse Media for a day of job shadowing. I’m very excited about this opportunity and hope I can find some time in my hectic schedule to make it work.

Before heading home that night I stop by the bookstore to pick up a copy of our Samsung case study for the India IFS trip.  Sometimes I forget that our IFS trip is an actual class with homework due. It’s easy to get caught up in the travel portion and forget that it's worth three credits!

Tuesday afternoon finds me doing more statistical tests. In between two-tailed sample tests and a regression analysis I get an e-mail confirming my second round of Transparent Language interviews for next Tuesday in New Hampshire. I immediately book a Zipcar and begin my research.

After my group is satisfied with our Statistics assignment, I set about finalizing the Marketing Club’s revised submission to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. They had requested some changes to our initial defected member survey and we’re putting together some edits.

Wednesday is a big day! I have another interview; this time with Au Bon Pain for a  category management position.  It would be great to land this job since it’s located in Boston and the position seems interesting: it would be dealing with competitor analysis. The interview goes well (I think) and my interviewer was very nice, even bringing me a free ceramic travel mug from Au Bon Pain. He says I should know whether I make it to a second interview in a couple of days.

Later that day I receive an e-mail from the Career Center letting me know that another company would like to interview me. Vention Medical, a Massachusetts company specializing in integrated solutions for medical companies, has an opening in their social media department.

The rest of the night is spent pounding away at my computer keys in an effort to finish my Living Document 2.

Thursday, after a long day of classes, I head to a Marketing Club meeting to help hand out our new mugs! The mugs are decorated with the new, official Marketing Club logo from our design competition a few weeks ago.  We order Upper Crust Pizza and the whole group catches up for an hour or so.  After that, it’s off to meet my Operations team to begin work (early!) on our fourth assignment for The Boston Globe project. We compile a bunch of questions for our contact and send him an e-mail. While the assignment isn’t due until the week after next, schoolwork has been piling up and we all agree an early start is essential.

On a side note, my section is already getting e-mails from our Finance tutor hoping to schedule review sessions for our Finance final. While I really appreciate how on top of things he is, I barely have a moment to think about this week, let alone time to prepare something that isn’t due until three weeks from now.

After the Operations meeting I head home and spend what would be several hours working on my LD 2. I’m not in bed until 1:30 am.

Friday I’m up early to get to the library and finish my Living Document 2.  It’s due by 4:30 pm. Luckily, with all the work I had put into it earlier this week, it only takes a few hours before I have the 40-page paper printed and bound.

After submitting it I check my e-mail to find that I have not been selected to move on with Au Bon Pain. I’m pretty upset and getting a bit tired of rejection, but at this point, I have so many other things to worry about that I don’t stay depressed for too long. Instead, I meet a friend at Panera (do you see how spiteful I am?) for some coffee.

After an hour of relaxing it’s back to campus to send The Massachusetts Horticultural Society The Marketing Club’s revised defected member survey. I begin wrapping up the consulting project. While we had originally planned to present our findings to the Mass Hort executive board, considering the time crunch, this does not seem like a viable option. Instead, I offer to have our findings professionally printed, bound and delivered to Mass Hort so that they can get it into the board members' hands.

I also meet with my financial aid adviser, trying to coordinate my financial needs for the coming months.  For all you future Huskies, it's important to remember the role that the IFS trip and our corporate residency plays in financial aid.  For example, the financial aid you will receive when you enter the program does not cover the IFS trip because the trip is technically in the summer and thus, a different academic year.  Also, because of the six-month corporate residency, the Northeastern MBA program technically runs for three academic years.  This means three FAFSAs while your here. Just keep all of this in mind when budgeting for your MBA program.

I meet with my teammate to hash out our portion of the interdisciplinary project around 3:00 pm.  We work for a couple of hours on Ann Taylor’s competitor analysis but soon realize our brains are fried from the Living Document.  We agree to finish our respective assignments at home and e-mail them to each other later tonight.

Invitations were also sent out today for an end-of-the-year Marketing Club picnic at the Boston Common. I’m very excited because hopefully it will be spring by that time (we had snow last week) and we can all enjoy some sandwiches and frisbee-playing in the sunshine.

Saturday and Sunday are no fun. On Saturday I’m back at Snell Library at 9:00 am and after hours of working on our interdisciplinary project I don’t leave until 5:30 pm that night.  My friend and I stop by Unos Chicago Grill for a drink and appetizer before heading home to work on our project some more.

Sunday is the same story.  I’m on campus at 9:30 am to meet for my Supply Chain write-up after which I’m at it with my interdisciplinary team from 1:00 pm until 5:00pm before I head home to try and finalize my flight itinerary for India (I’m leaving is just 3 weeks! Yikes). My travel plans are due to The Accent Group on Monday. I also work on the Finance homework that’s due tomorrow. With all these big deliverables it has been easy to forget that we have regular assignments as well.

I go to bed early in anticipation of the upcoming week.

*The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Northeastern, its staff or affiliates.

Friday, April 8, 2011

When It All Falls Down

After my typical Monday of morning library studies, Finance and work I grab my friend and cross Huntington Avenue for some Panera study time.  We both put in an impressive show of endurance, making our way through both lunch and dinner during our multi-hour session. While we don’t pack up our Statistics problems until 8:00 pm I feel substantially better about my understanding of the subject matter and much more prepared to face the review session tomorrow afternoon.

Tuesday morning I meet my Operations group to hash out our next Boston Globe project that is due tomorrow (I know, last minute). Upon working our way through each section we realize we are lacking some vital information and so call up our contact at The Globe. We are so lucky to have as responsive a contact as we do. He immediately sends out an e-mail answering all of our questions. We divvy up the work before heading to our morning Supply Chain class.

In Supply Chain today we have another set of awesome guest speakers; this time two representatives from Staples spend the next couple of hours breaking down their supply chain and logistics practices.

After class the majority of the program makes its way across campus for a massive review session hosted by our Statistics professor. 

After two hours I excuse myself because I have a 4:30 pm phone interview with Transparent Language for a marketing corporate residency! I’m so excited and nervous. It’s been a while since my last interview and I hope I’m not too rusty.

I feel like it went well and the opportunity sounds amazing. I’m told to expect a response for a second interview sometime next week.


I also received my Indian visa in the mail today! I’m so excited and relieved that  I have one more thing checked off my to-do list.

That night, though, is one of the worst I’ve had in business school. I spend hours finalizing our submission to The Massachusetts Horticultural Society and doing the final edits for not one, but two Operations assignments. Just to give you an idea, it’s around 11:00 pm when I hop on Google Chat with my team to try and solve our efficiency equations for our Assignment #2 rewrite. It is 12:30 am before I can even look at my homework that’s due tomorrow.

That night I crash, upset at all the work, exhausted and unable to complete my assignments for tomorrow even if I stayed up all night.

I greet Wednesday knowing it is going to be a rough day. I’ll admit that besides the Operations deliverables I have not prepared anything for class.  I grab a double latte, print my Operations assignments and await a long day. After class, where I do receive an A- on my Operations exam, it’s off to work before studying for a few hours for Statistics and then the mentor reception.

The mentor reception turns out to be much better than I anticipated. The students meet their mentors at the Varsity Club at Matthews Arena. After my mentor arrives we grab a drink at the bar and some delicious hors d’oeuvres and set about catching up since our first meeting a couple of weeks ago. While we have been communicating via e-mail since our first meeting, I fill him in on some recent developments in the residency arena. We socialize for about an hour before the event ends and I head home to cram for my Statistics exam tomorrow.

For most people, the mentor reception was the first time they met with their mentor. I was pleased to see a good turnout at the event and heard many positive comments the next day from my classmates. It seems as though most people genuinely enjoyed their time that evening.

The rest of the night is not as fun and I stay up past 1:00 am working out practice problems.

The exam Thursday morning is rough. Not a single person turned their papers in before the cut-off time and our professor was even forced to give us some extra time.  We head into Strategy that day dazed and confused to say the least.

In between classes I receive an e-mail informing me that I have an interview with Au Bon Pain next Wednesday! This is for a market analyst position. I’m thrilled and think it would be a perfect fit. Things seem to be looking up. But as we all know, that never lasts long…

Noticing the state of our the class as we filter into Strategy, our professor decides to conduct class in a slightly different way in hopes that it will keep us all awake and involved. He breaks the class into two teams so that we can have a lively debate regarding the assigned case. Unfortunately, this is the part where everything goes wrong. As my side of the room confers together, we quickly realize that not a single person has read the case or book chapters for today. After some debate on whether or not we should say anything to our professor, we decide to face the consequences of our actions and tell him we are utterly unprepared. It would have become quite apparent anyway when our side had nothing to say during the debate. Understandably upset, our professor asks the class how many had completed the case and book reading. Only five students had read the case (out of 35) and none of us had read the book chapters. Our teacher cancels class because, in all fairness, we would just have been wasting his time. He leaves the room and tells us to expect a new assignment within the hour. Embarrassed, we all just sit in our seats silently for a minute after he leaves.  I am so ashamed.  Dejected we filter out and begin the catch-up process on our reading.

But my section is not alone.  I find out later that day that the other section behaved no better than we did. Though they have a different Strategy professor, I learned that half of the class skipped lecture to study for the Statistics exam. The consequences for their actions will be weekly quizzes to measure participation. I can only imagine the repercussions that await all of us when this makes its way to the administration. Sigh.

I feel like, despite my best efforts, I'm just slipping academically. I need to shake myself out of this - even if it means a continuous stream of energy drinks and coffee to get me through it.

That night, in dire need of something to look forward to, I join two friends in Cambridge for an amazing Mexican dinner at Olé. It is heaven and their homemade guacamole is just what I need.

I go home that night still feeling upset by the events of today. I’m really embarrassed, especially since this professor is one of the nicest we have. I can’t help but think that if we had pulled something like this in the real world, we’d all be sending out resumes for a new job.

The stress of this semester has gotten to a lot of people. That being said, my learning team dynamics are beginning to deteriorate. While we had planned for a sort of intervention and airing of grievances today, the events of Strategy found everyone dispersing before we could. We decide to conduct a preliminary e-mail correspondence, an open discussion, of each member’s concerns. As I dread confrontation, I do not look forward to this added stress.

Friday morning, still drained from the week, I meet a friend for breakfast at Espresso Royale. We each order up one of their delicious breakfast sandwiches and spend a casual morning chatting over coffee. When we’ve had our fill of café culture we make our way to Fenway to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. I love the student discount ($2 with your ID) and the beautiful courtyard rich with Indian and Asian architectural influences.

I bid my companion adieu by mid-afternoon and, while I had the noble intention of doing homework, I just can’t face it. The work is so overwhelming that it somewhat panics me to even begin. So, in a not-so-wise move, I log onto my Netflix account and spend the evening watching the life drama of actors in a place far away from Boston.

On Saturday I meet my friend at Espresso Royale again, this time for some homework. We spend the next 4 hours reading our Finance chapters for the week. We part ways around 2:00 pm and I head to the library where I run into some classmates and put in another good 2-3 hours of work before dragging myself home.

Again, the night is filled with homework. While the Strategy incident was not pleasant, it has put even more of a motivational fire under me and I try and suppress my guilt by reading 50 pages of our Supply Chain textbook.

Sunday morning is again spent studying, this time I’m pounding the keys of my computer as I write my Living Document 2. I send out a survey to my Marketing Club consulting team asking their input on some elements of my managerial style and set about pulling quotes and charts for the 20 page paper.

At 1:30 pm it is time for a break and so I meet a friend at the bus stop and we head to Union Bar and Grille for a late brunch. I order up some huevos rancheros and their famous garlic chips and try to spend the next hour unwinding. We part ways around 3:00 pm and I’m right back at my desk, this time preparing for a Statistics write-up that’s due on Thursday and submitting my extra assignment from Strategy.

I fall asleep around 1:00 am to anxious thoughts of ways I can manage everything that needs to be done in the next few weeks.

*The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Northeastern, its staff or affiliates.