Winter B - Weeks 3-5

So I've clearly been horrible about keeping up with the blog in the last few weeks. I wish I had some interesting reason why, but it essentially boils down to: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." The last few weeks have been chock full of meetings, delays and thumb twiddling, but I finally feel like we're getting somewhere with this project. Funnily enough, our midpoint presentation is today... even though our final presentation is in 11 days. Every time I look at the calendar I get a "Holy Crap!!!" feeling. For one thing, how on Earth are we going to get everything done in the very short time period we have left? On the other hand, how the heck is it possible that in only 17 days I will be completely DONE with the first year of my MBA? Everyone told me that the two years go by quickly, but this is just ridiculous.

Anyway, there are a lot of things coming up in the next few weeks/months that I am very excited for, so I thought I would share...

• April 10th - the start of GBR (I'm working the Welcome Table from 2-4pm); Michelle, Lene and Shari get back from Spain
• April 11th-13th - in Charlotte for Erin's wedding!!!; Nathalie gets back from India
• April 18th - the final presentation
• April 24th - the final paper is due, and the first year is OVER
• May 19th - my first day at Mills
• May 30th-June 1st - in Boston for Beatrice's first birthday
• July 3rd-6th - in Indianapolis for Nadia's second birthday and Sonia's baptism
• July 29th - my last day at Mills
• July 30th-August 3rd (?) - in DC for Roxana's wedding!!!

I really have no idea how my summer became so jam-packed already, but I'm looking forward to being able to see family and friends so consistently over the next few months. And of course, I'm looking forward to the internship and getting to know Minneapolis. It's amazing that when I started this whole process (applying to schools, OP/recruiting, classes) everything seemed so far down the road. But nope, not anymore!

Oh, and some very positive news on the weather-related front... it's been sunny and "warm" (mid-50s) for the past few days, so I hope this keeps up!