http://nintendowidow.com Chronicling the MBA experience and beating castle trolls on level 9 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw this and thought it was time for some good old-fashioned blog-filler. Here goes: Sarah's 2007 1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
 Choose a job for the experience, not the money. 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
 I ... http://nintendowidow.com/2008/01/14/lucky-lucky/ I am now gainfully employed. I will start my full-time consulting career in July of this year. I accepted the job in late December and I'm so glad to have it taken care of. Now I'm staying busy with my new part-time job: TAing a marketing strategy course for executive ... http://nintendowidow.com/2008/01/13/full-time-and-part-time-jobs/ I've been offline for a few reasons. 1. I'm lazy and I forget to post updates. 2. I've been an interviewing machine. 3. I've been enjoying myself IMMENSELY. Last night, I got together with ten of my classmates from Korea for a Korean bbq dinner. We spent three hours eating, talking and drinking. ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/12/01/korean-karaoke/ It's 7am and I'm chatting with my global project team. As part of my Managing Across Cultures class, I have to complete a project with students from three other countries. I'm chatting with a student originally from Brazil who is studying in Finland, a student from Hong Kong in Hong ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/11/07/overseas-in-my-living-room/ Over the last three weeks, I've been busy organizing MBA club events, interviewing for post-grad jobs, taking midterms, and volunteering. Although this sounds like a lot, I'm much less stressed than I was this time last year. To start off, my 30th birthday two weeks ago was really fun. We ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/11/04/sushi-and-midterms/ Today I attended the naming ceremony for the Michael G. Foster School of Business. This name will be on my diploma when I graduate in June. Right now I'm in the library with some very wet feet and a cup of hot tea. It is raining so hard today. It rains ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/10/17/new-name/ Life, is that you? It's been so long since we've seen one another that I almost forgot what you looked like. Direct Marketing is over and, even though it totally kicked my butt at times, it was worth it. I loved the class and I recommend it to everyone. The ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/10/03/no-title/ Unlike most schools, our fall quarter lasts from late September to mid-December. This means that most people got a break after Labor Day. Even though I don't officially start my quarter until Wednesday, I'm already playing catch-up in terms of school work (early, condensed direct marketing class), regular work (short-term ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/09/23/playing-catch-up-before-classes-begin-2/ After not hearing anything for a year, I got an email from my old GMAT study buddy Tony. Tony is completing his second year at Wharton after working for Goldman Sachs in Tokyo all summer. I'm so excited to hear from him! It doesn't seem like it's been that long ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/09/20/gmat-reunion/ It has been a hectic week. Here's the breakdown. - Attended 22.5 hours of Direct Marketing class last week. - Spent Saturday night and all day Sunday working on team presentation for Direct Marketing. - Gave a ten minute presentation to 115 incoming first year students. - Spent 45 minutes presenting case on Monday ... http://nintendowidow.com/2007/09/18/autumnish/