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.

The Elusive Moose - A labor day adventure

Since The Bucket List came out about 8 years ago, I have been working on my own bucket list.  It is a varied and occasionally ambitious list and my goal for the weekend was to cross one of my favorite line items off, see a moose.  

For the moose hunt, I headed to Vermont with a few other LGOs and SOs for a labor day weekend adventure.  

The whole group on top of the mountain at sunset

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.

When Life's a Beach

I have heard that 50% of the US population lives within 50 miles of the coast.  There were certainly no coastline in Kansas so for the first time in my life I am one of them.  It is wonderful.

We had a three day weekend in July so Sandy coordinated all of us to head up to Manchester-by-the-sea for a day of fun in the sun.  In addition to just sun, sand, and water, we also have a classmate (Jordan) with enough beach game to host a children's camp.  Since we are basically children, it was perfect.  We played volleyball until the sand burnt the bottoms of our feet.  Turns out we have some players in the class.  One of my main skills in volleyball used to be my height (5'8" when I was 13), compared to the guys I am a shrimp who can't jump.  It was a blast.

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