....lucky for me, I only have to do it three times a week!! Through my two internships at Butler, I've definitely discovered that I DO NOT want a conventional 8-5 desk job. It would literally make me fall asleep. Other than some early mornings, the Accelerator is working out well because I get to work at both the BBA offices and the client site, and get to visit Holcombe Building, which houses the College of Business, every once in a while. The project I'm working on with the travel company is going really well, and I get so excited because I'm actually applying what I've learned in my marketing classes to these real-life, real-business problems. How cool! All those things I worked so hard to study for and memorize really DO exist in life! As someone who hates having her time wasted, this is fabulous for me.
So since the last time I posted, a few really exciting things have happened. 1. I'm going on a missions trip to Honduras right after graduation!!! 2. I'm going on a service-learning trip to China over Spring Break!!! 3. I picked up my cap and gown .... ..... 
(sorry not ready for the !!!'s yet on that one..) 4. My camera broke 
5. I chopped off my hair!! annnd, drum roll please, I've taught several people how to do the Cupid Shuffle, and even participated in a group effort TWICE in one night, in two different places. So, most of those are pretty exciting, and the whole camera thing is really bumming me out. Luckily, my internship is paid, so hopefully I'll be able to get a new one soon.
A lot of you seem to have some questions about Greek Life here at Butler, so here's a good story for you. The beginning of it is going to seem totally irrelevant, but I promise I'll get to my point eventually. Junior, Senior, and 5th year Pharmacy students here at Butler have to go through a round of tests, called "Clusters," three times a semester. It's basically like finals, only more than just once a semester: they have like 5 tests over the course of three days, that span a lot of material. aka, the pharmacy majors are stressing out, locked in the library or some room in one of the academic buildings, for about a week. ANYWHO, the Alpha Chi semi-formal for the semester is scheduled for the Friday right before the last round of clusters in April. So, none of the Senior Alpha Chi Pharmacy majors (like 10 people) can go to the dance. Therefore, we've decided to have a "Senior Semi-Formal" this Thursday (intentionally on V-Day), with the theme of "Pink, Red, Single, and Fabulous." I'm pretty excited for it!!!! We're all 21, so we can all go hang out in Broad Ripple, which will be a lot of fun. I think we're all starting to realize that we only have a few short months left of all being together, in the same place. A few of us went out to eat at an Irish restaurant downtown on Saturday night -- it was fantastic.
The triathlon training is going pretty well. The aquatics department at the Health and Rec Center offers free one-hour student swim lessons every Wednesday, and so I went last Wednesday and learned that I was doing A LOT of stuff wrong. lol, as entertaining as I probably was for the instructors, I did learn a lot and I have been working to actually put the advice they gave me into practice. I'll be so excited when it's warmer out and I can run outside again!!
The owner of the company I interned with over the summer, Belmont, as well as the COO and Director of Business Development have all emailed me within the past week and a half asking about my decision to work for them full-time post-graduation. It's a definite, definite possibility (like, I'd probably be an idiot to pass it up), but I haven't discussed the "serious" things with them yet (pay, benefits, paying for my MBA eventually, travel opportunities, etc.), and I'm not really sure I know how to. I think I'm going to make an appointment with my career mentor and figure out how I go about talking with them about these types of things....and I definitely need to do some research on current salary and benefit plans for recent grads. Seems as though I can't get away from this whole "grown-up" thing after all...
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