Admit weekend
I’ve been a slacker lately. Well, I really haven’t been slacking in life, but I have been blog-slacking. I’ve been busy, but it has been self-inflicted busy-ness. I’m beginning a 3-day weekend and I’m finally catching up on sleeping eating, more sleeping, and on getting my bearings in general.
Last weekend was UW admit weekend. All of the full-time admits who have or have not yet accepted a slot came to campus for three days of wining, dining, and getting overloaded on MBA info. I was part of the madness. As the incoming VP of Program Development, I work with the MBA Ambassador coordinator and the Admissions Office to assist visiting admits while they’re on campus. My duties are flexible, but it boils down to answering any and every question related to the program, the workload, and living in Seattle. Since I’ve only been in Seattle since August, I still have a lot to learn. I think I did provide some useful info to folks who will be moving to the area this summer.
The rest of my admit weekend duties involved schmoozing. I schmoozed at pub club on Thursday night. I schmoozed at the Friday TG after class and I schmoozed from 9am until 4pm on Saturday when Brooke, our MBA Ambassador coordinator and I took the admits on an outing to Bainbridge Island. After “schmoozing” until late at night on Friday, the 9am roll call was a bit early. We took about 12 students downtown and then to the ferry terminal. Even though a lot of our admits are local they still turned up for the Seattle sight-seeing. The weather was fantastic which made the ferry ride even better than expected. We stopped over in Winslow for an hour to wander around, shop, and grab some pre-lunch ice cream at a very good ice cream parlor. After that, we returned to Seattle where we reconvened for lunch at the Columbia Tower Club.
After three days of schmoozing, I was pooped. I got home around 4 and slept for four hours. I planned to work on my take-home accounting midterm but it just didn’t happen. The next day, I had Danny drop me off at the library when it opened and I plowed through my accounting and Qmeth assignments. Sunday wasn’t fun but it was productive. Now that midterms are over I can just sit, blog, and relax.