Fall Festivities and Midterms

First - I need to start off with a few celebrations:

1. Midterms are done! Five tests including what will probably be the hardest test while I am here at MIT over two weeks and they are done!  
2. Resume done! The deadline for completing the resume for internships was a few weeks ago and it was a lot more work and stress than I expected trying to get everything interesting on to one page. 
3. Royals won the World Series!  (Apparently I have had this blog in draft state for a while)

Now that I am done celebrating...One of our goals this summer was to do something outside every weekend to take advantage of the weather before the winter takes over our lives.

Is it fall already? Can we add a few more hours into the day?

Now that school has started and the temperature has started to drop, I have a constant case of FOMO.  My inbox is full of emails about different clubs, intramural sports, social events, company presentations, team meetings, and then classes.  Then there is me in the middle trying to find a balance between involvement and personal life.

The first week of classes Sloan hosts Club Pitch and Fest where all the student clubs are on display for an evening and students can ask questions and sign up.  The main thing I learned that there are a lot of clubs!  So far I have committed to volleyball club (free and no required time commitment) and then tentatively joined SWIM (Sloan Women in Management) and Happy Belly club (yum).  The rest is still TBD for the clubs as I figure out how I can stretch the number of hours in a day.

Summer Reflections

It has been a summer like never before.  New places, new people, and new stories.  Monday it is back to reality when Sloan orientation starts and the LGO bubble will be popped as we join the full Sloan population.  Thinking back over the summer there was so much that happened.  Since my thoughts tend to come in bullet points with numbers, I tried to summarize the summer that way.

Summer School

Unlike most MBA programs where classes start in the fall after a summer of traveling or still working, the LGO program starts classes the first week of June.

LGO Summer Teams

The day before classes started we got an innocent looking email that would impact the rest of our summer... our summer teams.  Together the five of us are responsible for group problem sets, group case write ups, group final projects ... you get the picture.  Well to give you a better visual of my group, here we are, Team 7!

Team 7 taking our formal, informal picture

Welcome to Cambridge

I was ready for a change.  After living in Kansas for 26 years, I was ready for the next adventure. 

Two months ago I left my job, my family, and large apartment (I could fit a bed into my closet) to go back to school.  My fiancé and I drove from Kansas to Cambridge, MA so that I could attend MIT through the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program.  Over two full years I will work towards my MBA at Sloan and an MS Engineering Systems.