Business Student Career Path Video

My birthday is this Sunday! I'm getting excited.

My roommate showed me this video this week. Warning - there's a lot of curse words, but it is hilarious. It's a video making fun of four major b-school career paths: Investment Banking, Branding, Consulting, and Non-Profit. I think it's hilarious, and there's a great shout-out the the 3 C's and 4 P's that I love so dearly. Enjoy!

Bloomington Week In Review

The first week of testing is over! I had three exams last week, and one yesterday morning. It's been pretty chaotic. They were all pretty hard.

Also this past week Bloomington has gotten a ton of snow. Not enough to cancel classes (unfortunately haha), but enough to force me to wear my snow boots to class every day. Many girls wear Ugg boots to class, but I own straight-up snow boots. They're really warm and dry. When I was walking home from the Union Starbucks Monday night at 2am, I crossed the bridge over the Jordan River, and the view was stunning. It was so late that I couldn't hear a sound, and all I saw was the castle-like IMU building, a semi-frozen Jordan River, trees with snow-covered branches, and a blanket of completely untouched snow. I literally stopped for a few seconds to just take in the beauty, and remind myself why I love IU's campus so much.

On another note, I'm working on developing a creative resume for my Consumer Behavior class. The rough draft is due next week, and I hope it turns out as good as it sounds in my imagination. I'll keep you posted. I don't want to describe it yet, since I haven't started making it.

This past weekend my sorority had our initiation of our new members. I missed it last year since I was abroad, and it is so cool to be reminded of all of the ritual. My sorority is 139 years old at IU!

Yesterday afternoon my Honors Leadership Seminar professor cancelled class and had our entire class attend the Elinor Ostrom lecture at the IU Auditorium instead. She is a Political Science professor here at IU, and she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics last fall! She presented herself very well, and seemed incredibly intelligent. President McRobbie listed off all of her activities and accomplishments, and the list took about five minutes for him to say. It was very inspiring.

My Mom is coming into town this weekend. It's so weird that this will be my last parental visit at IU until my graduation day! This year is going by so fast!

Heavy Workload In D302

I'm not going to lie, I have been completely overwhelmed by my International Business class this semester. I guess you could say that it is smacking me in the face to start preparing for getting my MBA eventually.

So far this semester I have:

• Read 5 chapters in the textbook (approx 30 pages each, with text and 2 case studies/chapter)
• Read 110 pages of small-print articles and case studies (an entire "reader")
• Read an outside Harvard Business Review case about CEMEX
• Taken a 50-question multiple choice exam on Monday
• Written an 11 page exam review guide for extra credit
• Read a 37-page scholarly article and written a 5-page reflection paper
• Prepared and presented a team country analysis presentation on South Africa
• Taken a "syllabus quiz"
• Prepared a pro-con document about 10 articles concerning South Africa
• Wrote a team country analysis brief on South Africa

With that, I have a team Case Analysis exam tomorrow during class and an online homework assignment due Sunday night for the class. Let me emphasize that this is only our FIFTH week of classes - meaning I have been to that class only 9 days. While I feel that I'm learning a lot, I also feel like I am unreasonably behind in my other four classes. I hope the workload slows down a bit for the rest of the semester.

Today during my Poli-sci class my teacher asked the class why taxation and borrowing could be bad for funding a country's growth. I think he just wanted a simple answer, but I felt when I raised my hand that I could have gone on for days telling the class about how borrowing can lead a country to be insolvent if they use too much leverage to fund expasion. I even started talking about how that occurred during the Asian Financial crisis several years ago. Since this is a Western European Politics class, I think he was completely overwhelmed by my response. At least I'm applying what I'm learning in International Business, though, right?

Presentation Today

I have a big group presentation today in my International Business class. The topic that we are discussing is consideration for Foreign Direct Investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNE's) in South Africa. I hope it goes well!