this is the end

Wow. School ends on Friday. I’m so excited I can hardly take it!

But…there is much work to be done between now and then and definitely not enough time to do it all. Our I-Core project is due Tuesday by noon and we still don’t have the whole thing written, let alone put together and bound and stuff. I have to work on that at some point today. I also have to work out, shower, go to Target (Target = my favorite place) to get stuff and do my police ride along. That’s right. I have to do another one because nothing happened on the one I went on last week. Well, I shouldn’t lie. Stuff happened, but definitely not enough stuff to put in a three page paper about it. Because, that’s right, I have a three page paper due on my ride along(s) AND a three page writing assignment due for my criminal justice class on Monday. Too much stuff! But, after Wednesday things sloooooow doooown. I’m ready for it, too.

After Wednesday the month of May actually starts to get exciting! Well, two finals on Friday. That kinda sucks. But then! Fun! Starts!

Hopefully Friday night I will be traveling to South Bend to see my friend L to celebrate her birthday (4/28), my birthday (5/5) and her non-anniversary (also 5/5). Then, Saturday is probably dinner with the boyfriend and his family for my birthday, Sunday is dinner with my dad and his girlfriend (iPod Touch *please*), and Monday is MY BIRTHDAY!! I’m trying to decide if I want to get some friends together for an early dinner at my favorite Mexican restaurant in Broad Ripple before I do dinner or whatever with the boyfriend. Because, the birthday? Yup, Cinco de Mayo. I love how everyone celebrates my birthday with me. )

After that I have the Rose Dance for my Fraternity on the 10th, Associate Day at the Track (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) on the 16th (not a racing fan, but free food and autograph session = me. there.), my first Indianapolis Indians baseball game of the year also on the 16th, Maifest in Covington, KY (awesome German festival with good food and legal drinking in the streets. I wouldn’t miss it!) on the 17th, Cincinnati Reds game on the 18th and FLORIDA on the 19th-22nd. I’m a busy girl! But, after an entire year of working full-time and going to school full-time, I think I deserve it.

But now I guess it’s time to think about today. Get all my stuff done so I can get good grades and really enjoy the next couple weeks instead of worrying cuz I’ll have to retake all my classes!

I’m off to conquer the day!

longest 3 weeks ever

There are only 3 more weeks of school. I can’t believe it. I thought this semester was never going to end, and now I’m freaking out because it’s about to.

I’m in a class/project this semester called I-Core, which is required of all Kelley School of Business Students at both the Indianapolis and Bloomington campuses. It sucks, but it teaches us about the ‘real world’. Whatever that is. Basically, it’s a block of three classes: finance, marketing and operations; and a huge group project. The best part? It’s only 9 credit hours, so if you want to keep your full-time student status, you need to take at least one more class to get to your 12 credit hours. The classes aren’t bad, except for operations. And the only reason I say that ops is bad is because I don’t understand it sometimes (and it’s the class in which I have the worst grade…I think).

The group project is the worst part. You get assigned a group based on your zip code, because this apparently makes it easier to meet outside of the times when everyone is on campus. Then you have to pick a company with which to work on the project and then think of a new revenue-generating product or service the company can perform. After you have made those decisions, you have to send out surveys to decide your target market, and then do a huge report on your market analysis, a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis, an operations report (the longest portion) and a finance report for the proposed idea. It wouldn’t be so bad, really, if it wasn’t designed to be back-loaded, with most of the work happening toward the end of the semester. Late nights at the library, anyone?

To make it even better, the company we chose is going out of business. So now we basically have to make everything up. I love the ‘real world’.

Plus, I’m STILL sick! I actually went to the doctor (!) yesterday. I never do that when I think I just have a cold, but I actually started coughing stuff up over the weekend, so I figured that warranted a trip to the MD. Turns out I have acute bronchitis. At least I caught it early. Last time I had bronchitis I had it for 4.5 months. Not fun. And from that little bug I developed reactive airways disease, which is basically asthma. I haven’t been able to take a really deep breath since. Fun stuff.

But, alas! The MD gave me many drugs! I have my antibiotic, an oral steroid, and some gross, yellow cough medicine. I don’t do well with liquid cough medicines, and this is no exception! I choked it down last night, which was tough, but it worked! Plus. Much sleep! I think I will take some more soon-ish so that I might get much sleep again tonight! Sleep and I are old friends, but we just don’t get to see each other as much as we used to.

Then there’s tomorrow. I have to work (blah) and then I get to go to another Extra Credit dinner! Again, I have to pay. But it’s for Extra Credit. In my operations class. It’s at a golf course in Greenwood. I usually try to stay away from golf courses because they make me feel inadequate somehow. But for Extra Credit, I will push those feelings aside and proudly go to the golf course and try to feel like I belong there.

Now, dear readers, I’m off. Time to choke down more yellow goop they have the nerve to call medicine.