Welcome Back

Manuel Antonio Beach, Costa Rica

Greetings all! I hope you had as wonderful a holiday break as I did.

It’s been three weeks since I last walked the grounds of Northeastern (I know, a short winter break) and I finally feel fully rested after my crazy first semester.

Just as a quick wrap up: I spent the holidays visiting family in California for about a week before making my way to Panama and Costa Rica for two weeks of warm weather.  It was lovely to work on my tan before heading back to the full-on winter conditions in Boston.

Ruins of old Panama City, Panama

Grades were posted just a couple of days after classes ended and I am happy to say I came out of this term with a 3.73 GPA.  I was actually pleasantly surprised with this GPA, but no complaints here.

While on break I received an e-mail from the Career Center that the Hasbro corporate residencies this year will be on a different timeline than previously anticipated.  In fact, job openings will be posted on January 6^th, resumes and cover letters are due to the Career Center by January 9^th and final applications to the positions are due the 11^th. Wish me luck!

 I also have my schedule for this semester, which is as follows:

	Monday		Tuesday		Wednesday		Thursday		Friday
8:30
8:40
8:50
9:00
9:10	BUSN 6207				MGSC 6208		MGSC 6207
9:20	Critical Skills				Operations		Data Analysis
9:30	8:30-10:30				8:30-10:30		8:30-10:30
9:40
9:50
10:00									BUSN 6200
10:10									Career Mgmt.
10:20									9:30-11:30
10:30
10:40
10:50
11:00
11:10
11:20	FINA 6208		SCHM 6208		FINA 6208		STRT 6208
11:30	Finance		Supply Chain		Finance		Strategy
11:40	10:50-12:30		10:50-12:50		10:50-12:30		10:50-1:20
11:50
12:00
12:10
12:20
12:30
12:40
12:50
1:00
1:10

You’ll notice we have seven classes this term, instead of the six we had last semester.  Combined with the stressors of our corporate residency search, the Marketing Club consulting project, my part-time job and classroom sessions to prepare for our international field study trip, this is going to be one crazy semester.

So take a deep breath and here we go…

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

The End is Here

Oh my goodness, it's the last week of school!

Monday we have nothing to prepare for Marketing and I relish in the fact that I can just roll into class without any last-minute scrambling. In Marketing we do our final wrap-up and say our good-byes.  I’ll be honest, I got a little nostalgic.  I’ve been so busy recently that I forgot that this is the last week we’ll have these teachers again.

There is also no pre-work for Economics, which is lovely.

After class I spend the rest of the day at the library (from 1:00pm to 10:00pm) finishing our High Performance Organization paper.

Tuesday I turn in our HPO paper in Human Resources and watch the first batch of presenters. The pressure was on to create a professional, yet creative presentation for the class. Even though the presentation portion of this two-part assignment is not graded everyone puts their best efforts forward.  My favorite presentation of the day: the Whole Foods team.  They did a mock employee training session and news program! They even reference several of our class cases in the 'news cast' and had all of us- professors included, laughing hysterically.

After class that day I make it over to a campus food staple for lunch: Chicken Lou’s.  This greasy spoon diner (or rather, single room) is beloved by students for their plethora of fried sandwiches and deliciously unhealthy fare.  I grab a very tasty chicken sandwich to fuel the rest of my day because, while our HPO paper is complete, our work is not over yet.   My group still faces our presentation tomorrow.  After the exemplary show of effort today the bar has been raised and my group is feeling the pressure to perform.

I meet with my learning team after work and we stay on campus until 8:00pm.

I walk to school on Wednesday with butterflies in my stomach.  For some reason I’m really nervous about our presentation.  However, I think it went well and we even got a few chuckles out of our Jack Black anti-piracy ad campaign that we suggested as one of our solutions to fight piracy in the film industry.

After the presentation we head to our last Information Resources class.  That afternoon our professor releases our take-home final: a 300-word essay based on a case from class and incorporating our entire year of readings.  It will be a miracle if I don’t go over the word limit.

After a quick lunch at Au Bon Pain I head back to campus to finalize paperwork for the Marketing Club holiday party tonight.  I also drop by the bookstore because our pre-work for the spring semester, along with our book list, was released today. Unfortunately, only 2 of the 5 million books I need to buy (I’m only exaggerating slightly) were available.  I grill the bookstore personnel on when the books will be in because I’m leaving for California in 5 days and will be out of the country for 2 of the 3 weeks of break.  If I don’t get the books before I leave, that pre-work for all of my 7 classes is just not getting done.  They tell me they don’t think the books will be in until January; great…I’m in trouble.

Frustrated I head to the Curry Center to send out some reminder e-mails about the party tonight and scour the internet for textbooks because I’m certainly not paying $163.79 for a used copy of The Fundamentals of Finance.  I locate it for $75 on Amazon and have it shipped to California.  But there is still the problem of all of our supplemental course packs, case packs, class packs, etc. Those can only be purchased through the school and if they’re not in stock before I leave I really don’t know what I’ll do.

I send out an e-mail to my consulting project team trying to coordinate a time to conference call with our contact at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.  I reserve a time in the Career Center for us to all meet.

Afterward I rush home to change and get ready for the Marketing Club holiday party.

Graduate Marketing Club Executive Board
Photo courtesy of Alex Shafer

I get to the Curry ballroom at about 6:00pm and start decorating tables, organizing the room, etc.  I help bring in our food and our secretary sets up the holiday tunes.  However, to my disappointment, of the nearly 30 confirmed guests only about 15 turn out.  At least everyone gets an abundance of Maggiano’s leftovers.  

On a positive note, my first grade of the year rolls out and it’s an A- in Economics! I’m very excited.

Thursday is my last class of my first semester: Accounting.  It’s so odd because as we file out at the end of class I begin to head down to work as I normally would.  I suddenly realize I won’t be seeing anyone until after break and spend a few moments exchanging goodbyes. 

After work I head to Elm Bank with a couple members of my consulting team.  Unfortunately of the eight members, only three of us take the trip.  Everyone else canceled.  This seems to be the story of my week.

Regardless, it was great to finally get out to Elm Bank and see what we were working with for our project.  While it boasts beautiful grounds, I take note of the dilapidated main building and generally deserted feel of the place.  I rack my brain trying to see how I’m going to sell this place to potential members.

I spend Friday catching up on sleep and working on my Information Resources final paper which is due at 8:00 tonight.  After hitting send at about 7:30 pm with, admittedly, about 100 words over the limit, I gladly join a couple of friends for a celebratory evening.  We grab some Thai food at Wonder Spice Cafe in Jamaica Plain, rent a movie and relax at home, savoring the fact that we have nothing to do.

Saturday morning I wake up early for an adventure on my first commuter rail out to the Natick Mall to meet friends for lunch at the Nordstrom Café and some light shopping. 

Sunday I spend frantically packing for my trip, pre-paying bills and making sure to take the necessary precautions so that my apartment won’t combust while I’m away.

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

India or Bust!

After my three hour night I’m up early on Monday morning.  I head to the library to fine tune my Marketing case memo and Economics analysis before printing them.  The rest of the day I’m exhausted, counting down until class is over and I can head home for a nap (which I actually hate that I’m doing more of).  However, just as I’m getting ready to head home, I suck it up and join a group at the library to work on my accounting case.  Little did I know it would take me more than five hours to complete, even with all of us working together.  We try and confer with our classmates scattered around the library’s second floor, but it looks like everyone is having trouble.

By 6:30 pm we’re done and cross the street to Conor Larkin's Grill & Tap for some grub and a drink.  I am happy to say that I am sound asleep by 10:30 pm that night.

Tuesday I am a zombie! I think my several three-hour sleep stints are catching up to me.  A classmate even approaches to ask if I’m O.K.  Yes, I say, just the collateral damage of an MBA program.  After class I meet up with the Marketing Club to finalize our consulting group projects. I’m anxious to get the ball rolling on this. We have eight people on the Massachusetts Horticultural Society team.  I’m also in charge of the Club’s holiday party so I make an appointment to meet with our student activities advisor and confirm all of my event requests.  After the meeting I head home to start studying for the Accounting test on Thursday. I just keep telling myself that I’ll be home in two weeks…

On Wednesday, Information Resources is cancelled.  Thank goodness because my group still has a lot of work to do on our final presentation for the class on Friday; a presentation that will be made to the entire class (not just our Section).  After Marketing we head to the library for a few hours and meet with our Information Resources professor to get confirmation on our idea and that we are not totally heading in the wrong direction with it.  The assignment is to come up with a new way to digitize records. We’re thinking of digitizing the personal shopping experience.  The presentation is only five minutes long which, trust me, is worse than if we had 15 minutes, and a one page paper covering a slew of topics.  If there’s one thing business school is teaching me it is this: how to write concisely. 

By 2:00pm we call it quits to go home and study for our final Accounting test tomorrow.  I’m totally freaking out because I don’t feel as though I’ve followed along in class as well as the first half of the semester.  I guess we’ll see if I’m right tomorrow.  I force myself to sleep by 1:00 am.

I’m actually feeling pretty confident about the Accounting quiz by the time I leave class on Thursday, but I’ll let you know in a week how that goes…

Afterwards I meet with one of my learning teammates to work on our Information Resources paper.  We’re designing a mock newspaper with the title article being the launch of our new product: C.A.R.E (Customer and Relationship Enhancer), a digital platform that records all your shopping preferences and purchases to suggest outfits, styles and sizes that you, the shopper, might like.  I’m having a blast doing it and wish all papers were this fun.  It reminds me of the good old days designing newspapers during my journalism classes at the University of Washington.



Information Resources Presentation
Photo courtesy of Prashant Sable

Friday morning I’m up early to print our presentation slides and paper and e-mail everything out to our professor.  When we get into the presentation hall, with all 71 one of us, I notice that we have a panel of three judges from outside of our program that will evaluate our performance.  One is even from MIT.  Oh boy, this’ll be fun.

Surprisingly, my team places in the top 4 of 14 in our entire class! Plus, my professor LOVED our mock newspaper so I’m hoping this translates into a good grade.

To add to the good news, the official rosters for the International Field Studies were announced today and, drum roll please….I’ll be in India in exactly 5 months!!! Eeeek! I’m so excited! Now all that’s left to do is some trip planning.  Interestingly enough, we ended up getting at least 13 students to join the group.

That night is the MBA Connections holiday party at Market in the Financial District. I make my way over to a friend’s house to get ready before heading to the restaurant Church for some delicious cocktails and drinks.  The drink menu is so fun! They have a drink named after each of the seven deadly sins and a menu called “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”! I get a tequila-based beverage with agave nectar and strawberries called “Conquest”. Yum!



MBA Connections Holiday Party
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Mosely


We arrive at Market to a bunch of our classmates dressed up in cocktail dresses and button up shirts.  I spend the next several hours dancing and chatting with friends.  I even see my first Boston snowfall through the window! It’s only a flurry but I run outside in my chiffon dress in excitement.  I’m still waiting for the first time the snow sticks.

Saturday is perhaps my most indulgently lazy day the entire year.  I literally spend it sleeping, watching movies and relaxing.  I know I could be working on a lot of things, but I just don’t have it in me.

Sunday I spend on errands and working on our High Performance Organization paper (worth 15% of our grade in both Marketing and Human Resources).  Our High Performance Organization is DreamWorks Animation SKG and we have to analyze it in relation to the fact that Governments will have an increasing influence on how markets operate.  I also rent my first Zipcar! It’s a success and I manage to maneuver Target to pick up decorations for our Marketing Club holiday party on Wednesday.

Next week is our last week of class this semester. I can’t believe it; I’m a quarter of the way through my graduate program.

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

We Laugh in the Face of Sleep

On Monday it’s back to the grindstone. But, far from being refreshed from break, I return with a cold trailing close behind me.  But no time for that! Right away I hit the ground running.  Tomorrow my Living Document (LD1) paper is due and I’m only about 75% done.  While the writing portion looks solid, I know that entering all of my graphs and tables will consume hours.  After class, it’s straight home and on to that essay.  I’m up until midnight fine-tuning it, but finally, it’s done, coming in at a whopping 47 pages.

Tuesday I wake up early to get my Living Document bound at the copy center in the basement of Dodge Hall.  Staples will simply not suffice for that puppy.  It’s a whopper and I end up paying $25 for the color print job and binding.  The beginning of class that day is hilarious as my classmates and I all scramble to hand in the paper.  Our teacher stops us and says to wait until the end of the day.  What can only be described as despair spreads across our faces as we all just want this darned thing off our hands.

After class I head to work for a few hours, followed by a learning team meeting to hash out our Information Resources presentation on Cathay Pacific Airlines and their transition to outsourcing their data centers.  I’m pretty impressed with our ability to complete the project that afternoon.  I think we are all so exhausted from the LD1 that we just want to go home!

Even though I’m pooped, I stay up until midnight reviewing our presentation materials and slides and begin working on the hefty accounting case analysis due on Thursday that’s worth 10% of our grade.

Wednesday I get to school early today to turn in my International Field Study application! I’m so excited! In just 10 days I will know which of the four fabulous countries I will be visiting.  Just in case you forgot, my options are:

·         India

·         China

·         Russia

·         Argentina/Brazil

Cross your fingers for me that India gets enough people to sign up so it can actually run.  After dropping off the application I meet my group in the graduate business lounge for a dry run of our Information Resource presentation before heading to Marketing.

After class, despite my delirious state and increasingly severe cold, I dutifully stay on campus until 4:30 pm to work on the accounting case analysis that has us looking at direct cost and overhead variances for a bicycle production company.  That night I stay up later than I have the entire program to finish that same case.  I had severely underestimated just how much time it takes to transfer calculations from hand-written notes to Excel and then to Microsoft Word.  My formatting was butchered in every transition.  I finally call it a night a 3:30 am, eight pages of typed charts and calculations later. 

A mere three hours later it’s Thursday morning and I rush to print out and digitally submit my accounting assignment. 

After going through my morning in a surprisingly awake-in-a-delirious-sort-of-way state I grab a large gingerbread coffee from the Dunkin Donuts on campus and head to work.  After a power-nap, and despite my better judgment, I head out for drinks with some friends tonight.  It has been a crazy and FAST week and I just need a couple of hours to unwind. 

Also, it’s looking good for my India trip! After questioning most of the people in the program I believe I have 12 confirmed India travelers with me so far. Woohoo! I can’t wait to buy a sari and begin planning my pre and post trip travels.  I’m thinking a couple weeks in Northern India and a week in Nepal?

That night I head to the appropriately named bar Drink with some friends.  I think this may be one of the best bars I’ve ever been too.  It’s in the basement of a building on Congress Street in the Seaport District, with exposed brick walls, dangling, bare light bulbs and display boxes of museum-quality categorized insects.  The bar tenders are dressed as if from the early 20th century and there is not a beer bottle or liquor cabinet in sight.  Instead, you simply walk up to the counter, tell them the flavors you like and they whip you up a beverage using tools as precise as eye droppers to get the concoction just right.  They’re like mad drink scientists!  For me: I told her I liked sweet and fruity drinks and was rewarded with a "20th Century" made with creme de cacao and lemon! Yummy!

After that we cross the street to Lucky's Lounge for some delicious grub.  I grab the bar steak and spicy blue cheese fries.  Delicious.  Despite my sleepyness, I’m not quite ready to head home so we make our way back to my neck of the woods for dessert and drinks at Parish Café, a restaurant that's a mere block from my house.

Friday afternoon I meet with my learning team to set up our Information Resources presentation for next Friday.  We have been assigned to come up with an innovative way for a company to use digitized records.  We’re thinking of incorporating it into a personalized shopping experience where customers can log their style preferences, sizes and more into a digital platform so that every time they enter a store, all of their information, past purchases, etc. are just a click away.

Photo courtesy of Mary Alice Hewitt

That night, on the suggestion of a classmate, we make our way to Boston Common to see the newly lighted Christmas tree.  We walk all around the park, observe the ice skaters and enjoy the chilly evening before picking up some dinner at PF Changs.  The City during the holidays is just amazing.  They decorate buildings with wreaths, string trees with lights and play music on the streets. So festive!

This weekend is not the most pleasant one for me. While I do make it out for an hour of shopping to pick up some cold-weather accessories (the first snow is forcasted for next week!) the rest of it is spent in the books.  The coming week will be an intense one.  I have two projects due on Monday, our final Accounting test on Thursday and my Information Resource presentation on Friday. 

This weekend is dedicated to working on my final Marketing capstone case memo and my Economics analysis, both of which are due Monday.  I round out the weekend with another measly 3 hours of sleep on Sunday.

Oh boy.  They better not give us any pre-work over the winter break…

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

Turkey Day

Since this week is Thanksgiving break and I will be heading home to California, my blog will be a brief one.  Please, try not to be too upset.

It was far too easy to get caught up in the excitement of the upcoming break this week and I had to continuously remind myself that I still had class on Monday and Tuesday. Ugh!

Monday, I hand in a Marketing analytical exercise and get some guidelines for my Economics assignment due in a couple of weeks.

Tuesday is an intense day for me.  I start out by waking up at 3:00 am to get ready for school and my 4:00-8:00 am shift for the GMATCH virtual MBA fair.  This time I act as a greeter at the booth.  It was a nice change of perspective from my previous virtual fair where I didn’t get to interact with each booth visitor as much.  After work, I send off my Information Resource assignment before heading to class.  I can be wonderfully productive before 8:00 am if I have to.

Luckily, my Human Resources session is cancelled for the day so after Accounting I am free to go.  I stop by my professor’s office for a few last-minute questions on my Living Document paper before rushing home to finish packing and head to the airport.  At this time I would like to express my love for the Boston Logan Airport.  Having grown accustomed to hour-long security lines back home at good old LAX, I leave my Boston apartment 3 hours before my flight departure.  Yeah, it definitely only took me 15 minutes to get through security.  At least I have time to grab a final Dunkin Donuts coffee and start researching my paper before the flight.

On the plane I force myself to begin my 40+ page Living Document essay and am quite proud that I manage about 3 hours of solid work on it.  By the time I get home that night it is 2:00 am California time, making it 5:00am Boston time.   I have been up for 26 hours straight.

The rest of my break is filled with fun food, visiting my family, hanging out with the boyfriend and seeing friends.  I even catch a movie in between my essay-writing sessions.  It was a much needed reprieve from school and, admittedly, makes heading back a bit difficult.  I know the final stretch of my first semester awaits me, and with it a dozen projects and assignments. Here we go!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I leave you with a list of Boston things I am grateful for:

·         $1.75 medium pumpkin spice coffees from Dunkin Donuts (I don’t pay tax if I buy it on campus)

·         Public transportation

·         Underground tunnels at Northeastern

·         Amazing food (I honestly don’t think there is a bad restaurant in the entire city)

·         Chilly fall weather and the cute outfits that go with it

·         Seeing rows of brownstone apartments instead of the Mediterranean style houses in California

·         Efficient lines at Boston Logan Airport

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

It's a Virtual World and I'm a Virtual Girl

This week I had the opportunity to work The Economist's virtual MBA fair! A virtual MBA fair is exactly what it sounds like: a digital version of what we used to do in person but without all those pesky direct human interactions.  Reality is so 2009.  A couple of weeks ago I had never even heard of a virtual fair and then, there I was, holding a group chat session on networking during your MBA to a bevy of online avatars.  I was thrilled to speak with potential students from around the world and help them see why I love Northeastern.  The whole experience was actually pretty fun - save a few ‘characters’ who felt that text speak was an appropriate way to communicate and correcting guests who told me how much they wanted to go to "Northwestern".

That night I try to go to bed early since I’ll be hosting another Economist virtual fair tomorrow morning.  The only problem is I have become all but nocturnal.  I don’t think I could go to bed before 10:00 pm if I tried!

Tuesday I am in full Northeastern salesperson mode- both inside and outside of my job scope.

I start my day by waking up at the crack of dawn to host another group chat for The Economist virtual MBA fair – this time from 6:15 am to 7:30 am.

After dragging myself through class I am delighted to welcome the MBA program's annual Harvest Festival. The Harvest Festival is held on the third Wednesday in November. It is a thanksgiving-style feast put on by the school including whole turkeys and hams, a bevy of potato products, veggies, cranberries, pies and a million other goodies.  It was so nice to have a real meal with all of my classmates and professors before rushing off for the break.

After the Harvest Festival I make my way to the Starbucks in the Curry Center to meet up with a prospective student who had attended my Human Resources class last week.  We discussed the program, how I came to choose Northeastern and I answered any questions she had.  It was a great meeting and I’m planning on getting together with her in the future to discuss the program further.

Wednesday morning I received an e-mail reminding me that I had an executive lunch with the CEO of Au Bon Pain.  I was thrilled because I had been on the wait list and was never notified that I was now officially on the guest list.  However, I was not in business attire at all and began panicking and planning how I could rush home between classes to change.  Unfortunately, it was all a mistake and I was not actually confirmed for the lunch.  I’ll admit that I was a bit bummed.

Luckily, one of my learning teammates was able to attend and came bearing gifts for our group's 3 hour accounting essay marathon.  She had been given cupcakes from the CEO that haven’t even been released yet! They were amazingly delicious and a formidable foe to my diet.  Later that day I walked past an Au Bon Pain and what was displayed in the window as “coming soon” but those cupcakes. Oh dear...

That night I head over to a friend’s house for dinner and some drinks (I know, on a Wednesday night!).
It was great fun and an out-of-character display of disregard for a school night.  I get home around 11:30 pm and buckle down on some of my case studies.  Sometimes you need to throw caution to the wind.

After class on Thursday I head to the office of the professor’s leading the India International Field Study trip. He had generously agreed to discuss some travel destinations with me. Unfortunately, we miss each other, but I’m able to reschedule a meeting for after the break.  I’m very excited to get an insider’s perspective on the country.

After that I make an honest effort to stay on campus and finish work but I simply cannot stay awake.  I head home for a glorious one- hour nap before returning to campus for my first Insider Insight session.  Luckily, this information session did not disappoint! When I walked into the room it was covered in toys! From Nerf guns to Jenga sets and My Little Pony, the room is wonderfully colorful and fun.  Each seat is donned with playdoh and we spend much of our time answering trivia questions for prizes. Somehow I don’t think the Raytheon session was as vibrant.  I spend the next couple of hours listening to a panel of three Hasbro employees as they discussed their company, job responsibilities and upcoming projects.  I even came home with a Littlest Pet Shop set; one of my favorite childhood toys.

That night, I head over to my peer mentor’s house for what she promises to be an exotic dinner.  It’s great to see her again as she prepares to re-enter school after her six-month residency.  Her husband cooks up a delicious Balinese dinner complete with authentic satay sauce and homemade spicy toppings. Yum! Plus, hearing her class lineup for next semester has me excited for my second year of grad school.

Friday is our last Career Management class of the semester.  While I actually enjoy Career Management, I won’t lie that I’m thrilled to have three-day weekends from here on out. As final projects start piling up, it will become exceedingly necessary.  Our final class is a nerve-racking one for me.  It’s all about corporate residency.  As I sit there I begin preparing for the competitive internship search and wonder how everything will play out.  Questions race through my head.  What if I apply to the same job as a friend?  How do you juggle that?  While I want everyone to get their dream co-op, what happens if someone has the same dream as I do?  I start to lose confidence when I size myself up against my classmates.  The first round of application dates has also been set.  Starting January 18, jobs will be posted.  What's more, the career fair is February 8th, as are our first round of interviews.  It’s all happening so fast!

After class we hold our second official Marketing Club meeting.  I will admit our attendance numbers are substantially lower than before, but I’m excited to present all of our opportunities to the group.  Let’s see how many people I can lure into joining my Massachusetts Horticultural Society consulting team.  I also get started on our Marketing Club holiday party.  The room is reserved and now I just need to get some bodies into it.  I think free food should do the trick.

Saturday morning I wake up early and head to Jamaica Plain for breakfast with a friend.  Oddly enough, Jamaica Plain reminds me of Seattle.  I think it’s the brightly colored houses in purple and pink combined with the plethora of organic food markets.  That morning we discover a true eatery gem; Sorella’s has the most extensive breakfast menu I have ever seen.  With no exaggeration, at least 15 flavors of French toast, 10 variations of pancakes and 20 types of omellettes grace the pages of their menu.  Glorious!  I opt for a seasonal offering of eggnog French toast.

The rest of the day is spent at home doing homework and cleaning my apartment in anticipation of the Thanksgiving break.

Sunday morning I head to the gym (it has been a week!) and then pay a visit to the laundromat - laptop and marketing assignment in hand.  As always, I somehow manage to spend 3 times as long on my work as I would like and I don’t have time to get to everything.  Oh well, I guess my 40+ page Living Document assignment will have to wait- yet again.

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