Finals Done! Internship Offer Received! Spring Break Arrived!
What a 24 hours!
I took my Leadership final yesterday afternoon. I loved the structure. For every wrong answer you circled, you got a point. If you circled the right answer thinking that it was the wrong answer, you got negative four points. This was great for me because there were five questions for which I did not know the correct answers, but by POE was able to elimate three. So I got three points each for those questions, as opposed to a full four. Better than zero points, eh?
This morning was my Decision Analysis final. A bit of a disaster. Utilities were a nightmare and took up waaaaaaaaaaaay too much time. If I got more than 50 (out of 100), I'd be surprised. I suspect the mean this year will be lower than last year's, so a 50 should put me in proficient range. But, who knows? The guy sitting next to me called it quits twenty minutes into the (three-hour) exam. He just got up and left, having written nothing down. So, yes, the exam was THAT difficult.
After taking the final, I had to do homework that was due just a few hours later for another class . The ringer on my phone was off, so I didn't hear it ring. But a call came through during that time with an offer to work at a company in NYC over the summer! The offer is VERY generous, the company's great, and I'm really excited about it. I've always wanted to live in NYC - not permanently, but for a while. So the prospect of spending a summer there is v.v. cool. The best part, though, is that this takes a lot of pressure off.
On top of all this, Spring Break is here! While I have no definite plans, I think I may rent a car and explore the Northeast. A few days in NYC may also be in the offing. In any case, I still have homework to do and hope to use some of this time to catch up. But I'm not going to punish myself too severly if I choose to waste the majority of my break. :-)
I took my Leadership final yesterday afternoon. I loved the structure. For every wrong answer you circled, you got a point. If you circled the right answer thinking that it was the wrong answer, you got negative four points. This was great for me because there were five questions for which I did not know the correct answers, but by POE was able to elimate three. So I got three points each for those questions, as opposed to a full four. Better than zero points, eh?
This morning was my Decision Analysis final. A bit of a disaster. Utilities were a nightmare and took up waaaaaaaaaaaay too much time. If I got more than 50 (out of 100), I'd be surprised. I suspect the mean this year will be lower than last year's, so a 50 should put me in proficient range. But, who knows? The guy sitting next to me called it quits twenty minutes into the (three-hour) exam. He just got up and left, having written nothing down. So, yes, the exam was THAT difficult.
After taking the final, I had to do homework that was due just a few hours later for another class . The ringer on my phone was off, so I didn't hear it ring. But a call came through during that time with an offer to work at a company in NYC over the summer! The offer is VERY generous, the company's great, and I'm really excited about it. I've always wanted to live in NYC - not permanently, but for a while. So the prospect of spending a summer there is v.v. cool. The best part, though, is that this takes a lot of pressure off.
On top of all this, Spring Break is here! While I have no definite plans, I think I may rent a car and explore the Northeast. A few days in NYC may also be in the offing. In any case, I still have homework to do and hope to use some of this time to catch up. But I'm not going to punish myself too severly if I choose to waste the majority of my break. :-)
posted by Jerry Blank at 12:58 PM
7 Comments:
Congratulations!
What kind of position is it?
congrats on the job! What areas of the Northeast do you plan on visiting?
Congratulations! It's definitely nice to head into spring break and Q4 without the internship monkey on your back.
Enjoy your break!
thanks, guys!
keven - it's a marketing position. i'd be happy to give you the details. shoot me an email if you'd like to know more.
brownoski - not sure. i'm thinking of heading out to boston. maybe maine. any recommendations?
I might head back to the Bay next month. Any chance of you being there?
KV - But alas, no. Planning any trips to the East Coast in the near future?
jb, i'd shoot you an email but you're still anonymous :-)
If you want to email me, go to the current students profiles at the UW-Madison AC Nielsen center.
http://www.bus.wisc.edu/nielsencenter/current/
It's pretty obvious which one is me.
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