I guess I’ve fallen back into the habit of taking a long time between my entries now that I’m back in school. I spent all summer thinking that I would just be kickin’ it during the second year, but my professors must have eavesdropped on those daydreams and decided to dash away my plans. So far, I’ve been grindin’ pretty steadily and, while it isn’t as tough as the first year, I sure wasn’t expecting to be spending as much time studying at this point.

Unlike last year when the companies were approaching us in the Winter quarter, they’re running at us hard and fast already and it isn’t even the end of the second week of Fall classes yet. This week was full of company-sponsored breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and I might have gotten as much information from these firms as I did from my professors in their lectures. Normally, I wouldn’t mind hitting up all of these functions, but we’re all still trying to adjust to being in class again, so the recruiting stuff is adding on to the mental load that most of my classmates and I have to face. I’m SO thankful that I have an offer in hand because the stress would likely be ten times worse if I didn’t…speaking of which, as I’m thinking about these companies that I’m going to interview with, I had Accenture finally give me the details of my job offer yesterday and all I can say is “WOW!” They really must be checkin’ for The Kid because, when the recruiter gave me a description of the pacage, I almost dropped my cell phone from the shock of it all. I haven’t gotten my offer packet in the mail yet, but that phone call had me seriously thinking about not interviewing anywhere else at all. It’s so nice to have choices when it comes to the job thing

This weekend is our second annual Black Business Student Association retreat and, as one of the BBSA Social and Community co-Chairs, it was my job to plan this event. The planning started in the middle of July and I thought that 3 months would be plenty of time, but I was totally wrong. Here I am only a few hours from our arrival time at the location and i’m still wondering whether it will go off without a hitch. Things starting off sour when it took us over a month to find a decent location and followed that up with a comedy of errors surrounding our attempts to get corporate sponsorship for the event. Then, we had to contend with working things out with our facilitators. By the time I got all that worked out, I was just now sending notifications out about the joint to the BBSA members a week ago and having to do so with several separate emails because the information was changing daily. I’ve heard some grumblings that many of the first years think this trip is going to be bootleg, but, at this point, I just want it to happen without any major problems and don’t really care how nice or raggedy it ends up being. Taking on extra responsibilities when you’ve already got a full plate of other activities and a loaded course schedule is a BEAST!!!