As I Was Saying
Dinner went... Well, I suppose. I worry that I was being subtly tested, but then I'm probably just paranoid. Question: no matter how "on top" of things one is, can a HR manager really remember all his scholar's names and majors and departmental preferences? Of course, one could argue that the Man had been perusing a brief just prior to dinner and would have known all this to begin with, and the "what's your name and major" questions were merely to fool us into thinking of him as less well informed than he truly was...
Yesterday was busy as hell. Ran around like a chicken sans head. Today I'm catching up on "projects" ie: work that isn't actual official school stuff. Like research (got to skim code today) and some reading for stochastic calc. Have about run out of steam for the math, though (for the day, anyway) so I'm off to read code instead.
The week has otherwise been kind to me, with much work actually done. My math and eng. econ exams are back, with very satisfactory results. I do feel that the math grader was much too kind to me, but I'm not complaining. A very exaggerated double hump on that curve by the way - slew of 90s but a bunch of 10s and 20s as well. Professor says he can't possibly make the test any easier, and of course, any harder and those 10s drop to single digits. (actually I doubt if you can drop below 10+ anyway - every exam has _some_ giveaway questions) Weekend work pile is looking significant, but since none of it is due Monday (okay, 1 piece is, but I'm almost done anyway). I'm not too worried.
In non-work news, TBP just pulled in a new bunch of candidates. At least three familiar faces for me. The first meeting was fun to hang around, but I'm starting to worry about time committment as a whole. We'll see how it all works out.
Also, J just pointed out very strongly that my chances of actually graduating this year are slim (and I have to couple that with my slim chances of Haas entry, too) because of time conflicts. As I've mentioned to some of you, the time conflict clash will be a sort of negative deus ex machina - I won't have to worry about the whole grad school issue because it will be automatically out of the question for this year. I can't say I haven't been secretly hoping for it, but I'll push matters as best as I can. No, I won't let pure inertia rule out my options, but its not as if I'm going to make elaborate plans when I know that they're likely to fall through. (Some may argue that this is unlike me, but I'll counter that I've never made serious plans for the nigh impossible either)
Oh, did I mention that Brit chick has an amazing voice? Definitely have. I think I'm beginning to obsess. Hm... Also feel bizarre in Business classes because of the crazy preponderance of people of the feminine persuation. Too used to engineering/math, where women are rare and one of the boys anyway... (as in, if there are women in engineering/math, I think of them more as other engineers/mathematicians as opposed to actual women - the gender issue is suppressed by an overwhelming tide of collegial comeradrie)
Dinner went... Well, I suppose. I worry that I was being subtly tested, but then I'm probably just paranoid. Question: no matter how "on top" of things one is, can a HR manager really remember all his scholar's names and majors and departmental preferences? Of course, one could argue that the Man had been perusing a brief just prior to dinner and would have known all this to begin with, and the "what's your name and major" questions were merely to fool us into thinking of him as less well informed than he truly was...
Yesterday was busy as hell. Ran around like a chicken sans head. Today I'm catching up on "projects" ie: work that isn't actual official school stuff. Like research (got to skim code today) and some reading for stochastic calc. Have about run out of steam for the math, though (for the day, anyway) so I'm off to read code instead.
The week has otherwise been kind to me, with much work actually done. My math and eng. econ exams are back, with very satisfactory results. I do feel that the math grader was much too kind to me, but I'm not complaining. A very exaggerated double hump on that curve by the way - slew of 90s but a bunch of 10s and 20s as well. Professor says he can't possibly make the test any easier, and of course, any harder and those 10s drop to single digits. (actually I doubt if you can drop below 10+ anyway - every exam has _some_ giveaway questions) Weekend work pile is looking significant, but since none of it is due Monday (okay, 1 piece is, but I'm almost done anyway). I'm not too worried.
In non-work news, TBP just pulled in a new bunch of candidates. At least three familiar faces for me. The first meeting was fun to hang around, but I'm starting to worry about time committment as a whole. We'll see how it all works out.
Also, J just pointed out very strongly that my chances of actually graduating this year are slim (and I have to couple that with my slim chances of Haas entry, too) because of time conflicts. As I've mentioned to some of you, the time conflict clash will be a sort of negative deus ex machina - I won't have to worry about the whole grad school issue because it will be automatically out of the question for this year. I can't say I haven't been secretly hoping for it, but I'll push matters as best as I can. No, I won't let pure inertia rule out my options, but its not as if I'm going to make elaborate plans when I know that they're likely to fall through. (Some may argue that this is unlike me, but I'll counter that I've never made serious plans for the nigh impossible either)
Oh, did I mention that Brit chick has an amazing voice? Definitely have. I think I'm beginning to obsess. Hm... Also feel bizarre in Business classes because of the crazy preponderance of people of the feminine persuation. Too used to engineering/math, where women are rare and one of the boys anyway... (as in, if there are women in engineering/math, I think of them more as other engineers/mathematicians as opposed to actual women - the gender issue is suppressed by an overwhelming tide of collegial comeradrie)
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