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!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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!
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!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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:
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?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
"Mission: To Enjoy Life As A Hedonist"
My 4pm class got cancelled today! Now I'm at home, and I'm going to try to cross things off my to-do list.
I really enjoyed my Consumer Behavior class today. The class is very psychologically-oriented, and I feel that it helps me understand my relationships with other people better. Thus far in the class, my professor has explained how humans are hedonists by nature, where they want pleasures and avoid punishments. Today, we talked about how no two people have identical experiences, so to expect others to have your beliefs or values would be futile. What I got out of today's class was that the only way to build rapport with others is to respect people when they disagree with you.
Since I am on the Student-Faculty Relations Committee for the Marketing department at Kelley, I was excited to see that the survey we created was sent out yesterday. It asks students about their current opinions of the marketing department, and how they feel changes should best be made. Some ideas that I like a lot are a.) to create more 1.5 credit hour classes that allow marketing majors to learn about more topics, b.) to create a way for marketing majors to connect more easily with marketing Kelley alumni, and c.) to put more marketing classes as pre-requisites of I-Core, so a student does not wait until Junior year to experience marketing. I hope there can be some outstanding changes made in the department, which will result in the department becoming even more respected internationally than it already is. (U.S. News & World Report ranked Kelley's marketing program #6 overall and #5 for public universities in 2009)
I'm sorry that I haven't been posting as many fun pictures or videos lately as you may be accustomed to. I'll try to work on that.
I really enjoyed my Consumer Behavior class today. The class is very psychologically-oriented, and I feel that it helps me understand my relationships with other people better. Thus far in the class, my professor has explained how humans are hedonists by nature, where they want pleasures and avoid punishments. Today, we talked about how no two people have identical experiences, so to expect others to have your beliefs or values would be futile. What I got out of today's class was that the only way to build rapport with others is to respect people when they disagree with you.
Since I am on the Student-Faculty Relations Committee for the Marketing department at Kelley, I was excited to see that the survey we created was sent out yesterday. It asks students about their current opinions of the marketing department, and how they feel changes should best be made. Some ideas that I like a lot are a.) to create more 1.5 credit hour classes that allow marketing majors to learn about more topics, b.) to create a way for marketing majors to connect more easily with marketing Kelley alumni, and c.) to put more marketing classes as pre-requisites of I-Core, so a student does not wait until Junior year to experience marketing. I hope there can be some outstanding changes made in the department, which will result in the department becoming even more respected internationally than it already is. (U.S. News & World Report ranked Kelley's marketing program #6 overall and #5 for public universities in 2009)
I'm sorry that I haven't been posting as many fun pictures or videos lately as you may be accustomed to. I'll try to work on that.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
IU College Students and Twitter Usage
One of my roommates just told me about how a guy she likes has a twitter account. She herself has a twitter account that she never updates, but instead only follows friends, news, and companies on it. It got me to think about the different ways students use Twitter that I have noticed at IU (among my friends).
I feel many of my friends follow companies such as J Crew and Forever 21 on Twitter, and are fans of them on Facebook. In that way, they can find out about any deals going on at the store. When it comes to following other people, though, I feel it's much more common just to follow one's close friends. Unlike on Facebook, you don't want to be hounded by someone's constant tweets if you've only met that person a couple of times.
Speaking of constant tweeting, I feel that relentless tweeting is more common among adults in the workforce than any of my friends here at IU. I could only name a handful of my friends who update their Twitter more than once per day. With that, many of my friends update so rarely that they have not tweeted anything new since last August (most likely from the increase of academic responsibilities). I'm more of a "couple times per month" type tweeter usually, because I don't think to go on Twitter often, or update from my phone. In fact, I still have not taken the time to figure out how to use twitpic to submit pictures from my Blackberry. I find it interesting that college students love Facebook, but are basically "late adaptors" when it comes to Twitter. You'd think that with a lifestyle so on-the-go, college students would be even more likely to use Twitter than their office drone counterparts. However, that is not the case (based on my experience of course, with no real research to back up my claims).
I've embedded the Twitter account that corresponds with this blog into the side panel on my blog page. It appears that sometimes the widget doesn't work, but hopefully the kinks have been worked out.
I feel many of my friends follow companies such as J Crew and Forever 21 on Twitter, and are fans of them on Facebook. In that way, they can find out about any deals going on at the store. When it comes to following other people, though, I feel it's much more common just to follow one's close friends. Unlike on Facebook, you don't want to be hounded by someone's constant tweets if you've only met that person a couple of times.
Speaking of constant tweeting, I feel that relentless tweeting is more common among adults in the workforce than any of my friends here at IU. I could only name a handful of my friends who update their Twitter more than once per day. With that, many of my friends update so rarely that they have not tweeted anything new since last August (most likely from the increase of academic responsibilities). I'm more of a "couple times per month" type tweeter usually, because I don't think to go on Twitter often, or update from my phone. In fact, I still have not taken the time to figure out how to use twitpic to submit pictures from my Blackberry. I find it interesting that college students love Facebook, but are basically "late adaptors" when it comes to Twitter. You'd think that with a lifestyle so on-the-go, college students would be even more likely to use Twitter than their office drone counterparts. However, that is not the case (based on my experience of course, with no real research to back up my claims).
I've embedded the Twitter account that corresponds with this blog into the side panel on my blog page. It appears that sometimes the widget doesn't work, but hopefully the kinks have been worked out.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Back In Action
It's raining today. My roommate and I woke up this morning thinking that it must be warmer outside, since there is rain and not snow. My definition of warmer is not 33 degrees. Luckily I look at the Bloomington hour by hour on weather.com all of the time, so I was not under-dressed for the temperature. However, the funny thing is that I was wearing a white coat, holding a cup of coffee, and holding an umbrella over my head as I walked to the Union just now. When I had to sneeze, the coffee went all over the sleeve of my white coat. Typical.
I have begun all of my classes for this semester, which seem to require a lot more reading than last semester. I really miss yoga. My classes this semester are:
D302 - International Business: Operations of International Enterprises
Y335 - Western European Politics (my only PolySci class)
M405 - Marketing Strategy
M450 - Consumer Behavior
Z494 - Wells Honors Seminar in Leadership
I just ran into my friend Cale (aka the IU Homecoming King), who is sitting next to me at the computer lab right now. He says, "Peace out, Kelley School!"
I have begun all of my classes for this semester, which seem to require a lot more reading than last semester. I really miss yoga. My classes this semester are:
D302 - International Business: Operations of International Enterprises
Y335 - Western European Politics (my only PolySci class)
M405 - Marketing Strategy
M450 - Consumer Behavior
Z494 - Wells Honors Seminar in Leadership
I just ran into my friend Cale (aka the IU Homecoming King), who is sitting next to me at the computer lab right now. He says, "Peace out, Kelley School!"
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