Monday, August 20, 2007

and now for something completely different...

Before I commence the next adventure, Getting My MBA: Shanghai Edition, I thought it might be most appropriate to blog one last time. In case, you know, I lose touch for the next four months.

This has been perhaps the shortest summer I have ever known. With a full-time internship, visits w/ STM on weekends and a Moroccan adventure, I have had barely enough time for myself. Strangely, this has not been a burden, but rather a welcome change of pace. Perhaps it's the new MBA mentality, but it seems that the busier I am, the more content I become. Something about living life to its fullest?

The internship ended with a whimper. My team didn't place in the company-wide case competition, a veritable upset if ever there was one. The projects I had been working on remain as works in progress (WIP), and it is unknown if one of them will ever get off the ground. Fresh back in the States, I somehow found myself giving a very brief and jet-lagged presentation to VPs from across the company on "What I Did This Summer." Despite whatever I might have perceived as foibles of the experience, however, I received this past Friday an offer to continue full time following my graduation. The only problem? No Houston office.

Which brings me to STM. We're still great and completely head over heels... So much so that we are now entering a new phase in our relationship... in which he becomes the newest fan of Anything But Country. Welcome!

Morocco was incredible - perhaps the most unique and eye opening country to which I have traveled thus far. I have plenty of pictures for those interested, but for now I leave you with one of my favorite photos from the entire experience.