I just realized that I am getting OLD!!! Instead of doing work this afternoon, I decided to play basketball with my housemates (a.k.a. “The House of Swole”) and that was a big mistake. The past few times I played, my jumper was off and I felt like I was going to pass out from the start, but it was different this time. My jumper was pretty “money” and I felt like my stamina would hold up, but then we played our first 5-on-5 game against a group of five high schoolers. I was matched up with a 16 year old kid who wouldn’t stop running and he had my late-20′s body ready to fall on the floor. We had some time to sit before our next game but that wasn’t enough for me. That time, we were up against a bunch of undergrads and I had another guy who wouldn’t stop running. By the time I finished that game, my feet, back, and knees were DONE! In the words of Danny Glover, “I’m too old for this shi…”
Instead of talking about how much work I have, I’m going to use the rest of this entry to talk about all of the socializing that is going on among the members of my class. I know that y’all are thinking “don’t MBA students socialize all the time”, but that is a common misconception about Bschool. There is always a certain amount of hanging out that goes on, but that gets restricted by time that people spend worrying about classwork and, more important, dealing with their job searches. When i got back for my second year, I thought folks would be having house parties and dinners constantly, but the on-campus recruiting process started and folks were in 100% job-mode. Now, there are some of us who are set up employment-wise for after graduation, but there are still people who haven’t found jobs or, even more interesting, haven’t figured out what kind of job they want to pursue. That alone has been enough to keep some people huddled away on their job-grind.
Fortunately, a lot of people have started seeing how little time we’ve got left here and have been holding social events to bring as many classmates together as possible. for the past week, I’ve attended at least one social event at someone’s house, ranging from group dinners, wine and cheese parties, and “let’s just have a good time” parties. The common thread with these events is that the attendees are always pretty diverse and the organizers do a good job of inviting people who ae all cool, but might not have necessarily had a chance to hang out with the other attendees before. These events have allowed me to meet classmates that I’ve only seen across the room in class and to reconnect with others that I hit it off with early on and then lost touch with. In the last two days alone, I attended a wine and cheese party held at 5 classmates’ house with at least 60 classmates in attendance and a birthday dinner in SF for another classmate that drew 40 people. I know that we’ve all got a ton of work to do, but making the most of this last bit of social time is SO much more important. With so little time left until graduation, I’m starting to realize that this is the last time I’ll be able to kick it with a lot of my classmates because we’re going to be spread out all over the world. I love the fact that Derrick Bolton and his staff put together such a great group of kids for the Class of 2006, but he’s made it so that I’m going to have a hard time saying “goodbye” to all these folks.
Time for me to roll and get to enjoying my evening. I might throw another entry up tomorrow to talk about my schoolwork, but I doubt you guys will find that interesting
Before I go, I wanted to send a shout out to the mother of one of my classmates who I’ve been told checks this blog out regularly. Mrs. C I hope you didn’t mind Steph telling me that you read this thing 
Instead of talking about how much work I have, I’m going to use the rest of this entry to talk about all of the socializing that is going on among the members of my class. I know that y’all are thinking “don’t MBA students socialize all the time”, but that is a common misconception about Bschool. There is always a certain amount of hanging out that goes on, but that gets restricted by time that people spend worrying about classwork and, more important, dealing with their job searches. When i got back for my second year, I thought folks would be having house parties and dinners constantly, but the on-campus recruiting process started and folks were in 100% job-mode. Now, there are some of us who are set up employment-wise for after graduation, but there are still people who haven’t found jobs or, even more interesting, haven’t figured out what kind of job they want to pursue. That alone has been enough to keep some people huddled away on their job-grind.
Fortunately, a lot of people have started seeing how little time we’ve got left here and have been holding social events to bring as many classmates together as possible. for the past week, I’ve attended at least one social event at someone’s house, ranging from group dinners, wine and cheese parties, and “let’s just have a good time” parties. The common thread with these events is that the attendees are always pretty diverse and the organizers do a good job of inviting people who ae all cool, but might not have necessarily had a chance to hang out with the other attendees before. These events have allowed me to meet classmates that I’ve only seen across the room in class and to reconnect with others that I hit it off with early on and then lost touch with. In the last two days alone, I attended a wine and cheese party held at 5 classmates’ house with at least 60 classmates in attendance and a birthday dinner in SF for another classmate that drew 40 people. I know that we’ve all got a ton of work to do, but making the most of this last bit of social time is SO much more important. With so little time left until graduation, I’m starting to realize that this is the last time I’ll be able to kick it with a lot of my classmates because we’re going to be spread out all over the world. I love the fact that Derrick Bolton and his staff put together such a great group of kids for the Class of 2006, but he’s made it so that I’m going to have a hard time saying “goodbye” to all these folks.
Time for me to roll and get to enjoying my evening. I might throw another entry up tomorrow to talk about my schoolwork, but I doubt you guys will find that interesting
Before I go, I wanted to send a shout out to the mother of one of my classmates who I’ve been told checks this blog out regularly. Mrs. C I hope you didn’t mind Steph telling me that you read this thing 
