October 21, 2003 at 2:21 am · Filed under life updates
It’s going to be a TOUGH TOUGH week. How is it that we all end up with these jam packed weeks? It’s almost as if professors are clueless about everything else going on in our lives aside from their classes … oh wait, they ARE clueless. Thesis proposals are all due on the same day for all Fourth Years; you’d think that professors would refrain from giving tests during the week of the proposal due date. That would only be too logical.
I’m going back to my system of looking forward to things in order to get myself through the week. I’m looking forward to being in Northern Virginia with Jake and Ryan this Thursday night, finding out more about APT on Friday, seeing Sister Hazel on Friday, and the Colonnade Ball Friday night. Hopefully by then, Ryan and I will both be less stressed with all the work on our shoulders this week and let loose and enjoy ourselves at the dance.
My birthday’s coming up soon. It’s hard to imagine not being underage anymore, not being afraid of showing my ID to get into places, not being shut out from the Patron’s Lounge at these Balls. Now this has been enough of a study break; MUST get back to work.
October 15, 2003 at 5:14 pm · Filed under life updates
It’s yet again been a while. These blogs are being just as neglected as my actual written journals. A lot has happened in these couple months of school that have already passed. This past weekend was Fall Break, actually, something that seemed so very far away in August. I was up in NYC for a job interview and met up with some friends afterwards to just “hang out” in New York. Saw 42nd Street on Broadway — absolutely spectacular!! NYC has always had this sort of mystique in my mind, this magical almost Disneyland-like place full of culture where music rings from the streets and the sidewalks are paved with art. While there certainly is culture in New York, that idealized image I had of New York was sort of shattered this past weekend. It’s so crowded. The busy, bustle-and-hustle lifestyle that I thought I would enjoyed turned out to really annoy me. That many people on a daily basis would absolutely drive me nuts.
Speaking of job interviews; they’re going really well. I’ve gotten 2nd rounds and offers from a couple of Investment Banks, and of course I have the offer from Bain. This is very different for me. I guess this summer was the time when I really came to terms with the fact that I don’t enjoy computer engineering. However, last night Lockheed Martin came to do a recruiting presentation at UVA. I went because Ryan was going, along with a crew of others since Lockheed is where normal real engineers go to work (unlike my type - the cop-out engineer wannabes). Their videos of F-22s, of missiles, of government defense was actually HIGHLY EXCITING. At one point, I leaned over and said to Ryan, “This makes me want to get a Ph.D. in computer engineering,” something I haven’t said since high school.
So basically, I’m living my third decade, about to turn 21 and graduate from college, with no earthly idea of what I want to do. Ain’t that the story of my life. I wish we could go back to elementary school when our husbands, careers, houses, salary were determined by drawing concurrent circles in MASH. Yeah, remember that game? That’s when life was simple.
