Work Overload

So as I predicted, the work load post-weekends away is rough. The stress is definitely building. In small part, we have a Leadership paper, a Systems Optimization problem set, an interview of a front-line worker and write-up on that interview, an Operations Management factory simulation and two plant tours in the next week...PLUS three of my teammates (including me) are heading out of town AGAIN this weekend to go to weddings. This will be the third one this summer. Although weddings are fun, they are a lot of extra stress that I'm not always ready for. This one should be a little easier than the last two as the groom is my old college roommate instead of friends of Alicia's. Even though I get along with all of her friends, it will just be nice to be able to relax with an old friend of mine for a while and forget about work for a bit.

In other news, in the LFM program students do a lot of work both in academics or in committees. I am in two committees this year: I am a co-chair on the Marketing & Admissions Committee as well as member of the LFM/China LFM Synergy Committee. Given the first position, I hope to meet all of you who are reading this blog at some point this year either at an InfoSession, Open House, Interview Fest or through the Ambassador's Program. Please e-mail me with any questions on any of these events and I will get you more information about them. Okay, I'm done with the plugs for now. The LFM/CLFM Synergy Committee is going to be a lot of fun too. In case you don't know, MIT is helping SJTU create their own LFM program. This year will be the first year of the CLFM program and so we created a committee to help connect the two programs both academically and socially. My main goal for this committee is to get as many of the CLFM students and the LFM students to visit each other and work together on tiger teams, internships or other activities. Should be a great challenge for me and our committee.

Another event that occurred recently was the bidding on Sloan classes. In order to take a class at Sloan you are given 1000 points with which to bid on your classes. I took all of my points and bid for a class called G-lab. For an article on G-lab you can go to http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/global-0315.html to check it out. I'm psyched to let you all know that I got lucky and got in! (out of 24 or so LFMers that wanted to take the class only 16 were allowed - let's hope that they all can take it after the waitlist round). Can't wait to see what kind of projects we'll be working on! Definitely come back and find out.

Well, I think that I've been slacking off enough now. Time to get back to that Leadership paper.
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