Junior year is eating my life.

ChristinaL — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:43:00 GMT

Hey everyone! Sorry that I haven't been posting as frequently as I usually do. We are starting to get into the busy portion of this semester and I am feeling a little overwhelmed. Hopefully I can write a long post for you soon about one of these topics, but here's what's up in my life....

1) INTERNSHIP! I love love love it, but it is pretty time-consuming. It's so much fun to have a "big kid" job... even if they don't pay me. You will definitely hear more about this asap.

2) Greek life. I am VP of Education for the Panhellenic Association, which oversees the sororities, and this has been taking up a lot of my time! Mostly because I see this position as a way to really leave my mark on the Greek community and try new things to show people that Greeks are so much more (and usually quite different) than the stereotypes. We had a very successful event promoting women's basketball a few weekends ago (It was Spice Girls themed and we called it Spice Up the Night! Girl Power for Women's Basketball - cute right?) and our exec board went to a Greek leadership conference with 2100 people in St. Louis last weekend.

At Pi Phi, we are also busy with the education process for our new members. Last night we revealed who their Big Sisters are and so I got to help my Little Sis Jackie welcome our newest member of the Moose family, Stephanie! What a fabulous fam : )

3) School! I have SO much reading. Like, I'm not actually sure it's possible for me to finish it all ever. I would estimate I have at least 500 pages a week assigned to me for my three hardest classes combined, and my reading pace is definitely slower because I try to take notes and synthesize it all for later paper writing or class discussions. I'm doing the best I can, but it's definitely taking a toll on my sleep. Don't take two heavy-reading lit classes AND a heavy-reading history class in one semester with an internship. This will not end well for your shut-eye...

4) Hmm... where does the rest of my time go? Probably trying to keep my closet organized and pick up the mess on my floor? This is a daily battle.

5) Occasionally I have some fun. This mostly takes the form of playing clarinet at the Basketball games and dancing like a fool. I was on ESPNU doing just that a few weeks ago.

6) Trying to plan the rest of my life. yeah this sounds kind of dramatic, but I have to make some big kid choices right now such as: do I want to live off-campus next year? Where do I want to spend my summer and what should I do? What should my Honors thesis be?! and then smaller crises like: What am I doing for spring break?

So, I hope to give you a more substantial post soon, but for now it's just about stayin alive! I have another conference this weekend for the Student Foundation at U of Cincinnati. It will be good to see some friends that I have met from other colleges, but I actually wish I had the weekend to do homework. When did my life become so lame? haha.

have a good week!

"I'm not sure I really like being a grown-up..."

ChristinaD — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:29:00 GMT

....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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Junior year is eating my life.

"I'm not sure I really like being a grown-up..."